CAIR: Senate Report on ‘Homegrown Terrorism’ Criticized
On May 8, staff for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) Chair Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-ME) published a report on homegrown terrorism and the Internet that has raised free speech and guilt-by-association concerns. A coalition of nonprofits and a group of Muslim organizations have both sent letters objecting to […]
KS: Death of Muslim Soldier’s Baby Issue for Lawsuit
The death of a Muslim soldier’s son in North Carolina has become a key issue for a group that is suing the military in Kansas. Eight-month-old Lachlan Agee died May 3 at Fort Bragg, and officials suspect sudden infant death syndrome. His father, Pfc. Eli Agee, is stationed there. Mackenzie Agee says she tried repeatedly […]
CAIR-MN: Muslim Religious Needs Clash with Company
A New Brighton factory is the latest Twin Cities employer to confront employment issues related to Muslim workers and their religious requirements at a time when the area’s population of Islamic adherents — and employees — is increasing.Mission Foods, whose parent company is Irving, Texas-based food giant Gruma Corp., became the subject this week of […]
It’s Possible to be Modest and Beautiful
Re: “A contradiction?” (Letters, May 29). First, on the basis of absolutely nothing, Ken Shore equates modesty with a desire to be unattractive. It’s an untenable link. Just as it’s possible to be both modest and attractive (e.g. my wife in a business suit), it’s equally possible to be both immodest and unattractive (e.g. me […]
CAIR-NJ: Misperceptions About the Hijab
It wasn’t too long ago, during the social revolution of the Sixties, that many elders in the West criticized the changing fashion trends of their younger generation as being “risqué” and indecent. Mothers taught their daughters to be modest, and to make sure that a man respects them for the right reasons, such as their […]
CAIR-FL: Mosque Celebrates Reopening After Arson
(TAMPA, FL 5/30/08) – On Saturday, May 31, representatives of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Tampa), the Hillsborough/Tampa Human Rights Council, and law enforcement and ranking city officials will join members and staff of the Islamic Education Center of Tampa (IEC) at a press conference celebrating the reopening of that mosque […]
CAIR-FL: Forum Debates Race, Religion, Politics
2008’s hot topics of race, religion, politics and media coverage drew a crowd to Hills­borough Community College’s Dale Mabry campus Thursday night to listen to a panel discussion and give their opinion about how the media is doing.In general, the sentiment of the evening was that coverage of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was overblown and […]
CAIR-IL: Dunkin’ Donuts Gives in to Racist Fears
Right-wing pundits would sooner choke Rachael Ray with a keffiyeh scarf than leave her alone to drown herself in all that extra virgin olive oil she likes to splash on her so-called 30-minute TV meals.Ray, the affable, pleasantly ordinary-looking TV chef and eponymous magazine maven, was blasted recently when she showed up in a Dunkin’ […]
CAIR-CA: Mosque Unfairly Monitored by Fed. Surveillance
Members of San Diego’s Muslim community have called for congressional hearings into whether local mosques are being unfairly monitored by federal surveillance, it was reported Thursday.The San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations recently filed the request for hearings with the U.S. House and Senate judiciary committees and the House Committee on Oversight […]
CAIR-LA: Activists Seeking Probe of Reported Surveillance
A civil-rights group and a coalition of Muslim activists headed by a Corona man called on Congress this week to investigate a report that surveillance records of Southland Muslims were stolen from Camp Pendleton by military and law enforcement officials.The request stems from a news report that military officials and law enforcement members of the […]