CAIR-MN: Muslim Parents, Schools Reach Agreement on Prayers
St. Paul, Minn. — A few Somali parents in Willmar complained that the public schools weren’t allowing their Muslim children to step out of class for daily prayer. Some didn’t send their children to school last week in protest. Today, school officials said they won’t change their policy, which allows students to pray during lunch […]
CO: Dispute Between Swift and Muslim Workers Expands
(NEW YORK, NY, 9/17/08) – The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) yesterday participated in a press conference hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to announce an annual Iftar Break-Fast scheduled for Wednesday, September 24, at Brooklyn Borough Hall Rotunda. “Ramadan is a time of inner reflection, spiritual growth and […]
CAIR Rep to Meet with Fired Colo. Muslim Workers
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/17/2008) – A representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will meet today with some of the more than 100 Muslim workers fired from a Greeley, Colo., Swift plant last week over a religious accommodation dispute. The workers say the company refused to allow breaks to coincide with Islamic prayers. A similar […]
CAIR Condemns Attack on U.S. Embassy in Yemen
WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/17/08) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today condemned an attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen that left at least 16 people dead.SEE: Attack on US Embassy in Yemen Leaves 16 deadIn a statement, the Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group said:“We condemn this brutal attack and call for the […]
IL: Muslim Girls B-Ball Team to Play Public Schools (Chicago Trib)
Three years ago, girls at a private Muslim high school in suburban Bridgeview asked their basketball coach if they could play against public schools. School administrators hesitated because the teenage athletes removed their head scarves during games and wore uniforms that revealed elbows and knees. Boys at the other schools might sit in the bleachers […]
NE: Muslim Workers Protest for Right to Prayer
A group of 500 Muslim workers from Grand Island’s JBS Swift & Co. plant staged a protest Monday afternoon. Members of the B shift (3 to 11:30 p.m.) and some members of the morning A shift walked off the job after being denied time to pray during what they said is the holiest of times […]
CAIR-FL: Muslim Claims He Was Unfairly Targeted By Police
A Muslim man passing through Jacksonville is filing a complaint against the Jacksonville Police after he says he was unfairly pulled over and questioned. The Georgia man was in town for a medical conference when he was pulled over by the officer.He says he was pulled over because of what he was wearing, a traditional […]
CAIR-FL Video: Muslim Driver Claims Profiling by Police (News4Jax)
A Georgia man who recently visited Jacksonville said he has some very unpleasant memories of the city after he claims he was targeted by a police officer because of his ethnicity.The man, who is Muslim, is filing a complaint against the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, because he said an officer pulled him over and asked him […]
A Jihad-Happy DVD Delivered to a Newspaper Near You
The movie Obsession: Radical Islam’s War With the West, whose trailer is below, was delivered with your Orlando Sentinel newspaper this AM. And, it is my understanding, the DVD was delivered to households receiving other newspapers around the country today as well. True? Apparently, Parade Magazine isn’t conservative enough for some folks. But hey, they […]
Hate Mail, Courtesy of Your Daily Newspaper
Readers of the St. Petersburg Times on Sunday found a little rancid bonus in their newspapers this weekend: a DVD called Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, which is a hate film ostensibly about Islamic terror. It’s really a thinly veiled attempt to influence the presidential election by flooding anti-Muslim sentiment ahead of the […]