CAIR: Harvard Sets Women-Only Hours for Gym
In response to a request by female Muslim students, Harvard University has created women-only workout hours at one of its campus gyms. The decision has angered some students at the Ivy League university.Since Jan. 28, the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center has been open only to women from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and […]
CAIR-CA Rep Challenges Racist Flyers
CAIR-Sacramento Executive Director Basim Elkarra comments on racist flyers left on car windshields by a white supremacist group.Click here to view the video.
KS Churches Promote False Information about Islam
Part of a message posted on the outdoor sign of a south Wichita church proclaims, “Islam is a lie.” A newsletter published by Wichita’s largest Protestant church contains a column that asks the question: “Can Muslims be Good Americans?” The answer, according to the article, is no. Other Wichita churches hold town hall meetings and […]
IN: U.S. House Candidate Could Be State’s First Muslim Rep
If Andre Carson wins the Seventh Indiana Congressional district seat, he will be the second Muslim elected to Congress and the first to represent the state of Indiana. Carson, 33, is the Democratic candidate in the special election for his late grandmother Rep. Julia Carson’s seat on March 11. While Carson is a member of […]
MA: Meet America’s First Female Muslim Chaplain
Shareda Hosein, a 47-year-old lieutenant colonel in the United States Army reserves, a wife and mother, has good reason to repeat the following story: “It is more than a story,” says Hosein, who became the first Muslim woman to become chaplain at Tufts University, last September. “It was a sign from God, and one of […]
CA: Arab American Kicked Off Plane with No Evidence
Mohamed Fikry traverses the globe, buying industrial food-processing equipment. In the process, he’s become an American Airlines executive platinum club member, closing in on nearly 5 million miles traveled. Last July, American Flight 136 from Los Angeles International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport began as just another trip for Fikry. The 53-year-old Pasadena resident boarded […]
U.S. Zeal for Iran’s Non-Muslims Faulted
For decades the United States has funded an effort intended to help Christians, Zoroastrians and Jews escape persecution in Iran. Now some of their leaders are questioning American motives as sects that have endured here for thousands of years dwindle rapidly as a result of the migration. Since the late 1980s, the U.S. government has […]
CAIR-OH: Ohio Muslims Unite Behind Obama
[. . . ]Building common-cause coalitions is one of the ways that Muslim activists believe they can make their votes – and their issues – count more.That is certainly the view of another convert, who is playing a central role in educating Cleveland’s Muslim population about the voting process.Julia Shearson’s ancestors may have arrived in […]
CAIR: Muslim Woman Forced to Leave Mall Over Headscarf
A Muslim housewife says her civil rights were violated when a security guard forced her to leave a shopping mall when she refused to take her religious headscarf off.The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based Muslim civil liberties group, made the incident public Friday. The group has asked the FBI and Louisiana officials to investigate […]
CAIR-AZ: Jews, Muslims Walk for Peace
As death tolls in the Gaza Strip continued to rise over the weekend, Muslims and Jews in Tucson marched to promote understanding and peace on a local level.The Muslim Jewish PeaceWalk has been recognized with proclamations by the governor’s office, the Pima County Board of Supervisors, the mayor’s office and the Human Relations Commission. March […]