CAIR Calls on Md. Board of Education Candidate to Explain his Anti-Muslim Bigotry to Students
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/11/2008) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on a candidate for the Board of Education of Frederick County, Md. to explain to students in that county how his anti-Muslim views will serve their educational needs. According to the Fredrick News-Post, Joe Chmelik recently said, “(Muslims) are the masters of the […]
CAIR Calls on MD BoE Candidate to Explain His Anti-Muslim Bigotry
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/11/2008) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on a candidate for the Board of Education of Frederick County, Md. to explain to students in that county how his anti-Muslim views will serve their educational needs. According to the Fredrick News-Post, Joe Chmelik recently said, “(Muslims) are the masters of the […]
Catholics, Muslims Amass Funds for Myanmar Relief
Catholics and Muslims have donated $23,700 thus far in a collection for the relief effort in cyclone-stricken Myanmar, South Florida leaders of the two faiths announced Wednesday.The aid is for victims in the southeast Asian nation who were hit May 3. The appeal, announced on May 14, is the first joint relief campaign of the […]
High Court Sides with Guantanamo Detainees
Rights groups lauded a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday that reinstated the principle of habeas corpus for detainees at the prison for terrorism suspects in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba.The latest in a series of setbacks to Pres. George W. Bush administration’s policies on terrorism suspects asserted that prisoners at Guantanamo can […]
Groups Announce Nationwide Mosque Census Project
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/12/08) – A coalition of Islamic and research groups today announced the launch of a nationwide census project, the first comprehensive survey of its kind, intended to collect accurate data about America’s mosques. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) will conduct the study over the […]
CAIR Welcomes Supreme Court Guantanamo Ruling
(WASHINGTON, DC, 6/12/08) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today welcomed a Supreme Court ruling that gives detainees at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detentions in U.S. civilian courts.The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called the decision a “victory for objective justice,” noting that the […]
NC: Muslim Women Take to the Court
This is a story about Muslim women. It’s a completely happy story. Except for when they lost the big game. “All right, let’s play,” says Hebah Sadek, coach of the Carolina Cyclones, at the start of a recent Wednesday night practice at the Islamic Society of Greater Charlotte. That weekend, the Cyclones — 10 young […]
New Mosque Marks a First in Spokane
On Fridays 200 Muslims squeeze into a converted North Spokane home to pray. It also serves as a place for young Muslims to attend Sunday school. But soon that will change. A parcel of land off Interstate 90 in the Spokane Valley is home to Spokane’s first Mosque. Nasreen Shah, a South Hill native, says […]
The Fallacy of Islamic ‘National Suicide’
A new buzzword is arising from the network of Israeli think tanks and security-oriented academic departments bent on instigating a U.S. attack on Iran: “national suicide.” The term describes a supposed Arab Muslim tradition of politically motivated suicide at the national, not just individual, level. Arab Muslim regimes have purportedly launched ruinous wars they could […]
Giving French Muslims a Look at the U.S.
For Karim Zéribi, the highlight was shaking the hand of Barack Obama. For Ali Zahi, it was meeting his childhood hero, the basketball star Magic Johnson. And Mohamed Hamidi was surprised to find a mosque in Washington that was bigger than the one in his parents’ village in Algeria.Mr. Hamidi is a well-known blogger, Mr. […]