Coalition Challenging ‘Hate Radio’ Launches New Website
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/9/08) – The Hate Hurts America Community and Interfaith Coalition (HHA), a group of religious and civic organizations seeking to challenge hate speech on talk radio, today announced that it has launched a re-designed website.HHA was formed as a result of talk show host Michael Savage’s rhetorical attacks on religious and ethnic minorities. […]
NY: Being American and Muslim
It was evening rush hour in New York City. 42nd St. was packed, and I was hoping I would make the bus. His voice came out of the crowd. “Take that rag off!” Huh? In my four months of working in New York, that was a first. Actually, that was a first in the seven […]
CAIR: Activists Want Screeners on Camera
Religious, minority and civil rights activists are asking Homeland Security officials to screen their own airport screeners using video cameras to check whether passengers are being subjected to bias or profiling.“We believe such controls are critical to ensuring that our nation’s [screeners] are focused squarely on security threats and not distracted by any personal bias,” […]
CAIR: Teacher, Schools Reach Agreement
A tentative agreement was reached Monday between the Wake County school system and a former Enloe High School teacher who sued after he was punished for inviting an anti-Islamic speaker to talk with his students.Social studies teacher Robert Escamilla and his attorney, Billy Strickland, said they couldn’t disclose the terms of the deal until July […]
TX: Religious Leaders Ask Officials to Help Detained Imam
Members of Austin’s religious community are rallying around a Muslim cleric who is being detained in West Texas and may be deported to Pakistan. Imam Safdar Razi, who led a Northwest Austin mosque for six years before taking a job in Dearborn, Mich., in 2006, was arrested on immigration charges at his home in Plano […]
MA: Prejudice of Muslims Meets Its Match
Yale’s seventh annual “Islamic Awareness Week” kicked off Monday with talks by two individuals who have witnessed firsthand the perniciousness of anti-Islamic prejudice. Riz Khan, reporter for the Arabic news network Al Jazeera, spoke about misperceptions of Muslims in the media. James Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay who was illegally detained for […]
NY: Mosque Plan Would Add to Our Diversity
Demographics are destiny, the saying goes, and it’s increasingly clear Utica’s destiny is to become a city of remarkable religious diversity. The Bosnian Islamic Association plans to buy a hulking former Methodist church on Court Street and turn it into a mosque and community center topped by minarets. If the association moves forward and the […]
CAIR-NJ Seeks Muslim Volunteers to Feed the Needy
(PRINCETON, NJ, 4/8/08) – The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ) is urging members of that state’s Muslim community to volunteer April 17, 2008, to help serve some 200 hot lunches to the homeless, hungry and working poor at the Morristown Interfaith Community Soup Kitchen. The volunteer opportunity is being coordinated […]
CAIR Partners with ‘20,000 Dialogues’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/8/08) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group announced today that it will partner with the “20,000 Dialogues” campaign to help bring Americans of different faiths together in communities nationwide.The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and 20,000 Dialogues, a project of the Unity Productions Foundation (UPF), will use films […]
WA: Muslim’s Pilot Dreams Soar Despite Distrust
For American Muslims since 9/11, few acts could be considered more ill-advised or foolishly provocative than enrolling in flight school to get your pilot’s license. Which is why Monem Salam had to do it. Well, proving a point wasn’t the sole reason. Salam has dreamed of being a pilot since he was a boy in […]