NJ: West Point Cadets Study ‘Peace Winning’
It sounds at first like a student’s worst nightmare: A long field trip to this gritty, gentrifying and altogether unlikely destination. But by Saturday afternoon, at the end of a three-day cultural adventure, 30 young men and women had seen a side of New Jersey’s second-largest city that few tourists or even locals had ever […]
CAIR: 1.2 Billion Believers Deserve Our Attention
For many Americans, the introduction to Islam came on a bright September morning in 2001, when in two horrific hours 19 suicidal terrorists invoked the ancient faith in laying waste to the World Trade Center and taking 2,749 lives. “Infidels,” the assassins called the Americans in answering the call to jihad—a struggle to defend their […]
CAIR-IL: Muslim Congressman Speaks at Symposium
The first Muslim elected to U.S. Congress shared some of his experiences as an elected official with those who hope to follow in his footsteps one day.Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) was keynote speaker at the Muslim Youth Leadership Symposium, hosted by the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.The symposium was held at the Mosque […]
CAIR-IL: Muslim Headscarf Is All-American
It is a fundamental feminist conviction for a woman to have control over her own body, and a fundamental American one to protect the freedoms of others, including the freedom of religion. A Muslim woman’s choice to wear a scarf on her head as a way to practice her faith is no exception to either […]
CAIR-LA: Eid Presentation at School Draws Complaints
Last December when Kimberly Kanan was invited by her children’s school to discuss the Muslim holiday of Eid during the school’s study of traditions and cultures from around the world, she happily accepted the offer. But Kanan, an active parent of four, three of whom attend the same school where the presentation took place, did […]
CAIR: TX Woman Tapped for Board of National Islamic Council
San Antonio activist Sarwat Husain has joined the national board of the country’s largest Islamic civil rights group.Husain, 52, founder and president of the San Antonio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, was elected earlier this week to the Washington-based group’s board of directors for a three-year term.A native of Pakistan, Husain has been […]
CAIR-MI Rep to Speak on Extremism in Islam
Extremism/Terrorism and Islam’s Position“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”Tuesday, April 8th5PM-7PMKirkhof Center room 215/216DescriptionJoin the Muslim Students Association on their last event of the year. Our amazing speaker, Dawud Walid, will be presenting about Extremism and Terrorism […]
1,000 Turn Out for CAIR-MI Banquet
(SOUTHFIELD, MI, 4/7/08) – Almost 1,000 people turned out Saturday for the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR-MI) annual banquet in Dearborn, Mich. Zarqa Nawaz, creator of Canada’s number one rated sitcom “Little Mosque on the Prairie” addressed the crowd as the keynote speaker. CAIR, America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group, has […]
CAIR Op-Ed: Beyond Race Consciousness to God
We are the products of, in the words of Sen. Barack Obama, “the decency and generosity of the American people.”One of us, Larry Shaw, is the son of slaves who rose to become one of the highest elected state officials and the other, Parvez Ahmed, an immigrant who came to America seeking higher education but […]
CAIR Joins Capitol Hill Panel on Islam in U.S. Politics
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/7/08) – A representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently took part in a roundtable discussion on “Islam in American Politics” at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.CAIR’s Nihad Awad joined former Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia, Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), Dalia Mogahed of the […]