McCain’s ‘Spiritual Guide’ Wants to Destroy Islam
You may have heard of Rev. John Hagee, the McCain supporter who said God created Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for its homosexual “sins.” Well now meet Rev. Rod Parsley, the televangelist megachurch pastor from Ohio who hates Islam. According to David Corn of Mother Jones, Parsley has called on Christians to wage war […]
Video: McCain’s Pastor Problem
During a 2005 sermon, a fundamentalist pastor whom Senator John McCain has praised and campaigned with called Islam “the greatest religious enemy of our civilization and the world,” claiming that the historic mission of America is to see “this false religion destroyed.” In this taped sermon, currently sold by his megachurch, the Reverend Rod Parsley […]
IL Official Apologizes for Using Fake ‘Mosque’ in Drill
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/9/08) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today thanked an Illinois law enforcement official who apologized for using a fake “mosque” in a recent emergency preparedness drill CAIR, a Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group, had expressed concerns that the use of the term “mosque” by state law enforcement agencies sent […]
CAIR: Preparedness Drill Sparks Controversy
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is crying foul over an emergency preparedness drill targeting a simulated mosque in the central Illinois community of Irving.Ahmed Rehab of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says the exercise wrongly typecast Islamic houses of worship as security threats. Rehab says he has no reason to believe […]
CAIR: Islamic Group Finds IL ‘Mosque’ Drill Offensive
A national Islamic advocacy group says an emergency preparedness drill targeting a simulated mosque in this small community wrongly typecast Islamic houses of worship as security threats.“It really was in poor taste, probably as a result of a lack of cultural prowess on the part of the person who made that choice,” Ahmed Rehab, executive […]
CA: ‘Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film’ at UCLA
In the post-Sept. 11 world, images and impressions of Islam in the Western media have often been synonymous with extremism. To temper this, the UCLA Film and Television Archive is offering “Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film,” an attempt to present a more inclusive look at the religion. “Obviously Islam and images of Islam in […]
CAIR-CA: Muslims to Take Part in Orange County AIDS Walk
(ANAHEIM, CA, 5/7/08) – On Saturday, May 10, a team of local Muslims will help raise AIDS awareness by taking part in the 2008 “Field of Dreams” O.C. AIDS Walk in Anaheim, Calif. The team is sponsored by the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) in cooperation with the […]
CA: Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam’s Face
When Ali Ardekani started fishing around on the Internet a couple of years ago for video blogs about Muslims, he did not like what he found: either the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims were depicted as bloodthirsty zealots, or they were offering defensive explanations as to why they were not. “Arabic sounds foreign and scary — […]
CAIR-CA: U.S. Muslims Find ‘Steady Allies’ in Japanese American Community
More than 100 Muslim Americans from across California joined Japanese Americans for the 39th annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 26.Many in the Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian community have found steady allies in the Japanese American community, both groups all too familiar with being the target of “anti-terror” xenophobia and discrimination during war time. […]
U.S. Officials Urged to Avoid Linking Islam, Jihad with Terrorism
U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujahedin, which “unintentionally legitimize” terrorism. “There’s a growing consensus (in the administration) that we need to move away from that language,” said a former […]