Canada: Mosque Targeted with Hate Messages
The words and symbols are hateful and chilling. Codiac RCMP are attempting to link a series of spray-painted messages, including swastikas and racist declarations, at five different Moncton locations during the last 48 hours. RCMP Cpl. Mike Gaudet said graffiti is common in Metro Moncton, but most messages are harmless messages, such as some that […]
U.N. Lawyers Say Bosnian-Serbs Burned Muslims Alive
Bosnian Serb cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were accused on Wednesday of imprisoning and burning alive some 140 Muslims and summarily shooting others in some of the cruellest ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian war. Both men face charges of murder, extermination and cruel treatment at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague for violence […]
CAIR Reps to Take Part in Madrid Interfaith Summit
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/9/2008) – Representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will take part in a groundbreaking international interfaith summit to be held July 16-18 in Madrid, Spain.[Note: During the conference, media professionals may contact CAIR Communications Coordinator Amina Rubin at 202-341-4171 or arubin@cair.com. She will provide updated on-site contact information for CAIR conference […]
CAIR: Report of Mosque Surveillance Concerns Muslims
While there have been allegations in the past of government investigation of mosques on issues relating to terrorism, the recent report, first featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper, is said to be the first confirmation that surveillance is taking place.An article in the Los Angeles Times (May 29) reports that information about the alleged […]
CA: Muslim Woman’s Suit Claims She Was Fired over Hijab
A Muslim woman filed a discrimination suit Tuesday against a Sacramento company, alleging she was fired because she wanted to wear a religious head scarf on the job. Zaylanin Southavilay, 30, who is of Vietnamese ancestry, is suing National Credit Acceptance, a debt collection agency where she worked for 17 days in September. The suit […]
DC: AG to Address Senate on Religious Profiling Policy
Attorney General Michael Mukasey says the Bush administration will do everything it can to make sure the government has what it needs to fight terrorists before a new president takes over. But civil rights activists say that shouldn’t include letting the FBI start using terrorist profiles that potentially single out Muslims, Arabs and other racial […]
DC: Congress Bypasses Appropriations to Up Israel Aid
While almost all federally financed programs were denied any funding increase for the coming year, aid to Israel from the United States will increase thanks to a legislative loophole and some deft maneuvering by pro-Israel lobbyists. Congress bypassed the normal appropriation process on June 26 when it approved a $170 million raise in military aid […]
CAIR: Muslim, Arab Actors Seek Roles that Combat Stereotypes
A few years ago, when Ahmed Ahmed was a young Egyptian-American actor struggling to make a name for himself in Los Angeles, he asked his agent if she could get him a part – any part – that didn’t involve him playing the same old stereotypical bad Arab.She told him that if he didn’t change […]
CAIR-MI: Obama, McCain Should Condemn Islamophobia
Now that Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have become the presumptive presidential nominees for the Republicans and Democrats, they should address how all bigotry, including Islamophobia, hurts America. The need to address this issue is urgent given the spike in anti-Muslim rhetoric and fear-mongering during the presidential campaign. Former GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee […]
CAIR-OH: Police Make Arrest in Gas Station Shooting
Cleveland Police announced they made an arrest in the shooting of a local man while he was pumping gas.William “Happy” Neal was arrested on Thursday, July 3 for the June 20 shooting of Fazliddin Yakubov at the Superior Certified gas station located at 7608 Superior.Police say the release of surveillance video of the shooting at […]