Mission Foods Fires Six Muslim Women Over Islamic Attire
(ST. PAUL, MN, 5/27/08) – The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today called on Mission Foods (also known as Gruma Corporation) to rehire six Muslim workers allegedly fired from a plant in New Brighton, Minnesota for refusing to wear tight-fitting pants and shirts as part of a new company uniform. CAIR-MN […]
U.S. Helicopter Strike Kills 8 Iraqi Civilians
A U.S. helicopter airstrike on Wednesday night killed eight civilians, including two children, north of Baghdad, police officials said on Thursday. Colonel Mudhher al-Qaisi, police chief in the town of Baiji, said the attack was on a group of shepherds in a vehicle in a farming area. Relatives said some of those killed were fleeing […]
Letters: Israel’s Friends and the Path to Peace
Re “Israel’s ‘American Problem’ ” (Op-Ed, May 18): Jeffrey Goldberg attacks our book, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” while openly embracing one of our main arguments. He writes that we “argue, unpersuasively, that American support for Israel hurts America. It doesn’t. But unthinking American support does hurt Israel.” Our book contains detailed case […]
Savage Plays Dead Kennedys Song ‘in Some Respect for’ Sen. Kennedy
Summary: On the day it was announced that Sen. Ted Kennedy had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage opened his show by interspersing audio of Kennedy singing “Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes” with clips of news reporters discussing Kennedy’s diagnosis and audio from Kindergarten Cop in which Arnold […]
IL: Campaign Seeks Arabic Classes in High School
When Stagg High School senior Neda Safadi enrolled in Spanish class as a sophomore, she learned a striking lesson about Hispanic people. “I thought, for some reason, that because everyone spoke the same language, the culture was the same,” she said. “Each country is different.” The Bridgeview teen thinks that a similar lesson could be […]
MN: Teens Sentenced for Harassing Muslims
Three teenage boys who were allegedly part of a group calling themselves the Minnesota Mafia have been sentenced in juvenile court for bias crimes that include spitting on a person and yelling racial slurs at people outside Rochester’s downtown Islamic Center. Court files say they call themselves the “Minnesota Mafia,” and their focus is on […]
CA: Muslims Shouldn’t Have to Condemn Everything
When author and lecturer David Horowitz appeared at UCSB, he mentioned that our Muslim students had not condemned Hamas and Hezbollah, implying that this told us something about our Muslim students. His local intellectual soul mate, the like-minded UCSB student Ross Nolan, wrote a few days ago, “The final thing that struck me is how […]
IL: Underlying Prejudices Against Muslims
In the days immediately following the horrific 9/11 attack on the United States almost seven years ago, President Bush showed true statesmanship in many ways. Even those of us who sharply disagree with his war policy in Iraq can agree with that if we stop to remember. He inspired, he reassured, he rallied the international […]
CAIR: Government Given New Guidelines for War Vocabulary
From the people who brought you the “war on terror” and the “axis of evil” comes a new verbal tonic for combating that amorphous emotion.Out with pejoratives like “Islamo-fascists”, “jihadis” and “mujahadeen”, and in with “words that work”, that is according to a George W. Bush administration memo that was leaked last month to the […]
CAIR Rep Joins Panel on Civil Rights in Post-9/11 America
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/20/08) – On Monday, May 19, a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) spoke at a panel discussion on civil rights in post-9/11 America at the Washington, D.C. campus of the University of California (UCDC).CAIR Community Development Director Yaser Tabbara spoke to some 100 undergraduate students, addressing the challenges and realities […]