CAIR-CAN Urges Companies to Stop Building Israeli Settlements
(Ottawa, Canada – July 11, 2008) – The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) today called upon Green Park International and Green Mount International, two Canadian companies, to halt construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Palestine.Michael Sfard, a lawyer representing Biliin village, has filed a lawsuit with the Quebec Superior Court in Montreal […]
CAIR-IL: Muslim Corrections Officer Forced Out Over Beard
A former corrections officer has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against the Kane County Sheriff’s Department, claiming he was forced to resign after refusing to shave his traditional Muslim beard.The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court, seeks unspecified damages and a letter of apology to Abal Zaidi, who says he was forced out of the […]
CAIR Joins Call for Interfaith Understanding at Madrid Summit
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/16/2008) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is joining the call for interfaith understanding and reconciliation issued at a groundbreaking international summit that opened today in Madrid, Spain.CAIR representatives, along with some 200 religious leaders and scholars, took part in Wednesday’s opening ceremony of the World Conference on Dialogue. King Abdullah of […]
Gitmo Video Offers Glimpse of Interrogations
Click here to see the video. In a video released Tuesday, a 16-year-old captured in Afghanistan cries out for his mother and says he needs treatment for his battle wounds during questioning by Canadian officials at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay. “Oh Mommy,” he cries in despair in Arabic when he is alone […]
CAIR: Magazine Slammed for Obama Portrayal
Satire? That’s The New Yorker’s blanket defense for its controversial cover depicting Sen. Barack Obama as an American-flag-burning, Osama-Bin-Laden-loving Muslim intent on taking up residence in the White House. Michelle Obama isn’t spared either, as she’s portrayed as a machine-gun-toting, 60s-style-Afro-wearing radical. In short, the cover plays on every ugly, misinformed stereotype the Obama campaign […]
CAIR: New Yorker Flap Turns Attention to Satire
The cartoon on the cover of the latest New Yorker magazine depicting Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, as militant radicals drew the ire of the presidential candidates Monday and posed the question of how satirical journalism affects voters during an election season.The Obama campaign, as well as Republican rival John McCain, civil rights activist […]
CAIR: New Yorker Cover ‘Offensive’ or ‘Satire’?
This week’s cover of the New Yorker, called “The Politics of Fear”, may have caused some turmoil, but the message may have been misinterpreted.“The cover takes a lot of distortions, lies, and misconceptions about the Obamas and puts a mirror up to them to show them for what they are,” said the New Yorker’s editor, […]
Video: CAIR Rep Comments on Obama Rumors on CNN
A report on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” investigates false rumors the Obama campaign faces. CAIR spokeswoman Amina Rubin comments on how these rumors affect his relationship with the American Muslim community. Click here to see the video.
CAIR-NY Welcomes Arrest in Anti-Muslim Hate Crime
(NEW YORK, NY, 7/15/ 08) – The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today welcomed the arrest of a suspect in an alleged bias-motivated attack against a Muslim couple and called on the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office to prosecute it to the full extent of the law. On July 10, the […]
CAIR, ACLU Seek Records in Muslim Surveillance Case
Following news reports of a major security breach at the Strategic Technical Operations Center at Camp Pendleton, in which its chief and his staff operated a ring that stole surveillance files to give to local law enforcement, the ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties filed Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act […]