600 Turn Out for CAIR-LA Entertainment Night for Civil Rights
(ANAHEIM, CA, 6/10/08) – Some 600 people turned out on Saturday for the fourth annual Entertainment Night for Civil Rights hosted by the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) at the Heritage Forum in Anaheim, Calif.CAIR-LA President Fawad Yacoob welcomed attendees to an evening of clean, fun entertainment that […]
Islam ‘Liberating’ in Turkey
I was in Istanbul and Anatolia (Asian Turkey) the last week of May. The call to prayer five times a day was a constant reminder of why I undertook the journey. “Allah u Akbar, Allah u Akbar.” “Allah is Great, Allah is Great. … Hasten to the prayer. Hasten to the prayer.”At first, the pervasive […]
TX: Protest Religious Persecution, Not Tolerance
Friendswood Junior High School Principal Robin Lowe, upon being told that a Muslim student had been harassed and possibly assaulted because of his religion, allowed representatives from a Muslim organization to make a presentation to an assembly of students. After parents bitterly complained, Friendswood Superintendent Trish Hanks reassigned Lowe. One of these two dedicated administrators […]
MN: Threats Continue at Charter School
Officials at a charter school that caters to Muslim students say the hate mail keeps coming despite the end of a state investigation. The Minnesota Department of Education found last month that Tarek ibn Ziyad (TUH’-reek IH’-bin ZEE’-ahd) Academy hasn’t broken any laws.
MI: School Staff Face Anti-Muslim Allegations
Public school officials moved close to appointing an independent investigator to probe allegations by students and parents that a small number of the staff at Fordson High School has engaged in hostile and discriminatory behavior toward Muslim students of Arab descent. Two weeks after hearing from the students at a public meeting of the city […]
CAIR-MO: Citizenship Candidates Sue over Delays
A class-action lawsuit filed Friday alleges many immigrants who have met the requirements to become U.S. citizens are left in limbo for months or years because of slow processing of FBI name checks.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in St. Louis, says some immigrants have had to wait more than four years to be cleared […]
OK: Ex-Army Chaplain Tells of Abuse
Former U.S. Army Chaplain James Yee is an unlikely person to be charged with espionage by the military. A third-generation Chinese American, he is a graduate of West Point. His father fought for the U.S. in World War II, one brother is a West Point graduate and another brother will leave this month for Iraq […]
CAIR-OK Hosts Muslim Former Army Chaplain to Gitmo
(TULSA, OK ­ 6/9/08) ­ On June 6, the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK), in cooperation with the American Civil Liberties Union, Tulsa Interfaith Alliance, Islamic Society of Tulsa and the Muslim Student Association of University of Tulsa, co-hosted a discussion forum at the University of Tulsa with the Muslim former […]
CAIR-OK Offers Training for Law Enforcement Officers
(OKLAHOMA CITY, 6/9/08) – The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) recently offered diversity training for law enforcement officers at the Norman Police Department Basic Academy training facility in Norman, Okla. The training gave basic information Islamic beliefs and practices, Muslim demographics, and common misperceptions about Islam, and offered tools and suggestions […]
CAIR-OK Hosts Muslim Former Army Chaplain to Gitmo
(TULSA, OK ­ 6/9/08) ­ On June 6, the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK), in cooperation with the American Civil Liberties Union, Tulsa Interfaith Alliance, Islamic Society of Tulsa and the Muslim Student Association of University of Tulsa, co-hosted a discussion forum at the University of Tulsa with the Muslim former […]