U.S. Shifts ‘Hearts and Minds’ Fight
Nearly seven years after the 9/11 attacks spawned the question, “Why do they hate us?” and made the repair of America’s poor international image a top foreign-policy pursuit, the Bush administration is taking a new tack in the “war of ideas.” Out, or at least de-emphasized, is the effort to explain America and its widely […]
US Congressman Urges Entry Ban on Narendra Modi
Bhopal: The Coalition Against Genocide, (CAG), added one more US Congressman to its growing list of supporters for a visa ban on the genocide tainted Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. In a letter to United States’ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Congressman Joe Sestak, a democrat from Pennsylvania, outlined the complicity of Modi’s administration in […]
CAIR-MI: Obama’s Muslim Outreach Director Resigns
WASHINGTON: An attorney who volunteered to help Barack Obama improve his relationship with Muslim and Arab-Americans has resigned from the campaign amid questions about his connection to a fundamentalist imam.Mazen Asbahi started as the campaign’s outreach coordinator on July 26, and he resigned in a letter to the campaign Monday. He said he was stepping […]
IL: First Mosque to Have Solar Water System
The Mosque Foundation, 7360 W. 93rd St., in Bridgeview, is the first mosque in the nation to have a solar hot water system. The solar water system preheats the water with sunlight instead of natural gas. It is used to heat water for congregants as they wash before prayers. Faith in Place, an organization that […]
CAIR: Muslim’s Resignation Part of Marginalization Campaign
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/6/2008) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group said today that the resignation of a recently-appointed Muslim community liaison for Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is symptomatic of a nationwide effort by Islamophobes who seek to deny Muslims access to the political process.The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said […]
WA Muslim Electors Could Help Make History
Lost in the unquestioned negativity surrounding false allegations that Obama is a Muslim – the persistence of the lies and the passion of the denials – is how true Muslims must feel, seeing their religion treated as political poison. But if change must happen from the bottom up, Washington state has at least two pioneers […]
CAIR: Muslim Census a Difficult Count
A new census of Muslim congregations is reviving controversies over how many Muslims are in the USA, how they are counted and why it matters. For minority religious groups, particularly Muslims and Jews, higher numbers can mean enhanced social and political clout in the U.S. public square.On the campaign trail, will a politician stop by […]
CAIR-OK Video: Teen Accuses Clothing Store of Discrimination
A Tulsa teenager levels allegations of religious discrimination at a Tulsa clothing store. She says she was denied a job at Abercrombie and Fitch because she wears a Muslim headscarf. News On 6 anchor Jennifer Loren reports in an exclusive that the teen and an Islamic advocacy group have filed an official complaint and are […]
CAIR: Faith in a Time of War
From Republican contender John McCain’s Jul. 25 meeting with the Dalai Lama in Aspen, Colorado to Democratic candidate Barack Obama’s visit to Jerusalem’s Western Wall the same day, the intersection of religion, politics and the “war on terror” has been a recurrent theme in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. While many evangelical Christians have vocally […]
CAIR-SV Offers Training to UC Davis Medical Center Staff
(SACRAMENTO, CA, 8/06/08) – The Sacramento chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) recently offered training for Chaplains at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. The training, entitled “Optimizing Care for Muslim Patients and Clients,” offered information on what health care providers should know about Islam and Muslims, including basic beliefs and practices and […]