CAIR-OH Rep Discusses Harvard Women-Only Workouts
Julia Shearson, Harvard alumna and executive director of the Cleveland office of theCouncil on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Cleveland), discusses a recent move to allotsix hours per week for women-only workouts at one of Harvard’s campus gyms.Click here to view the video.
CAIR-MI: Muslim Files Bias Suit Against Medical Center
(SOUTHFIELD, MI, 3/4/08) – On Wednesday, March 5, the Michigan chapter of the Council onAmerican-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) will announce the filing of a lawsuit against theDetroit Medical Center (DMC) by a Muslim employee who was allegedly subjected toreligious and ethnic harassment and unlawfully terminated.The former employee, who alleges being the target of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab […]
New Immigration Screening Targets Muslims
In the six and a half years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, federal law-enforcement agencies have secretly established profiling techniques to screen immigrants based on their nationalities, protocols that critics charge encourage the unjustified targeting of Muslims. The profiling, described in a February 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by McClatchy Newspapers, shows […]
NY Student Who Dumped Qurans in Toilet Sentenced
A former Pace University student who twice threw copies of the Quran into a toilet at the school after disputes with Muslims pleaded guilty Monday to disorderly conduct in connection with the incidents. Stanislav Shmulevich, 24, pleaded guilty as part of a deal in which he must do 300 hours of community service. He has […]
Free Speech and Islam: Questioning Assumptions
In “Free Speech and Radical Islam” (Feb. 15), Flemming Rose unwittingly assumed the role of the German officer he mentioned when he allowed the malicious cartoons to be published. This obviously and predictably would enrage millions of Muslims around the world. His concern about free speech is disingenuous. He clearly gives a free hand to […]
VA: Justice Department Taking Steps to Charge Al-Arian
The Justice Department is taking the first steps toward what could be another criminal prosecution of a former Florida college professor and prominent Palestinian Arab activist, Sami Al-Arian. One of Al-Arian’s attorneys, Jonathan Turley, said a hearing was held in federal court yesterday in Alexandria, Va., after prosecutors summoned Al-Arian before a grand jury there. […]
VA: Al-Arian Begins Third Hunger Strike
Former USF professor Sami Al-Arian has begun his third hunger strike to protest “continued government harassment,” according to the Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace. The group announced the hunger strike hours after Al-Arian was told he would be called to testify before a grand jury weeks before his scheduled release date. His attorneys […]
Religion Newswriters Offers Webinar on Islam
Religion Newswriters offers its first ever “Webinar” online training series. The seminars begin in March with a general overview of Islam. These sessions are free to journalists. For more details and registration procedures for each seminar, click the links below. * Covering Islam 101 March 12, 2008, 2–3:15 PM EDT * Covering Islam & Politics […]
CA Muslims Reflect on Hajj Experience
If this were Lebanon, Raef Hajjali would have returned from Saudi Arabia to a mini-parade of family and friends, a nice long rest and new social standing in the community. Relatives and neighbors would have slaughtered a sheep in celebration and decorated his home with palm fronds. “The whole town would have been waiting,” he […]
CAIR Rep Discusses Gaza Crisis with Jordanian Leader
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/3/08) – Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Nihad Awad today joined other American Muslim and Arab-American leaders in a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Washington, D.C.Meeting participants discuss Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip that killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians. Other topics discussed during today’s […]