CAIR-OH: Muslim Marriage Contract Decision to be Appealed
A woman plans to challenge Ohio’s first court ruling involving a traditional Muslim marriage agreement in a case that could set a precedent about how such religious contracts are handled in the state.The ruling says Mohammed Zawahiri does not have to pay his former wife, Raghad Alwattar, the $25,000 he promised as part of a […]
CAIR-Ohio Hosts Speaker on Interfaith Relations
(COLUMBUS, OH, 10/31/07) – The Ohio State University branch of CAIR-Ohio, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ohio chapter last week hosted an educational forum on the Islamic perspective on interfaith relations. Dr. Jamal Badawi, Professor Emeritus at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, spoke to a group of about 60 students and community members […]
WA: University Students Tout Ignorance of Islam
Their campaign of terror keeps spreading. They want to wipe out those who don’t agree with their way of life. They’ve spilled blood across the planet for eons, finding justification for the evil they do in holy texts. What do we call them? What else? Christian-o-fascists! While we’re at it, let’s give them a calendar […]
CA: Horowitz Disguises Racism as ‘Awareness’
Last week marked the beginning of a social and political wave of hatred and racist xenophobia emanating from the violent rhetoric of conservative students, politicians and academics everywhere. The perpetrator responsible for what was called “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” is David Horowitz. For those not familiar with Horowitz, a little background information: Horowitz began as a […]
TX: Injunction Granted Against Muslim Day Protester
A state district judge granted a temporary injunction Wednesday against a Florida man who organized a protest of a Six Flags Over Texas Muslim Family Day. The injunction forbids Joe Kaufman, president of Americans Against Hate, from threatening the plaintiffs or causing them bodily injury. The plaintiffs, which include several local Muslim groups, previously had […]
TX: Judge Rules Against Muslim Day Protester
A Florida man who protested Muslim Family Day at Six Flags over Texas last month is prohibited from threatening or harming event participants, a district judge ruled late Wednesday. Several local Muslim organizations, including the DFW Islamic Educational Center, on Monday asked state District Judge Ken Curry to bar Joe Kaufman, co-founder of Americans Against […]
MI: Ignoring Arab-Americans in ’08?
In 2003, Arab-Americans believed they were at a positive turning point. Most of the presidential candidates appeared in person or via satellite before that year’s Arab-American Institute’s National Leadership Conference. It was a far cry from two decades earlier, when a major candidate, Walter Mondale, very publicly returned donations from a group of Arab-American businessmen, […]
Rumsfeld Memo Laments Lazy Muslims
Ah, Rummy. We’ve missed him. Really, we have. Nobody else in the Bush administration has his way with words. Current Defense Secretary Robert Gates can toss out a quote, sure, but he’s just not capable of mindbenders of his predecessor’s “unknown unknowns” variety. So we were excited to see that the Washington Post had swiped […]
National Radio Host Goes on Anti-Muslim Tirade
To listen to these and other bigoted statements by Savage, click on the play button above. (WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/1/2007) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on radio listeners of all faiths to contact companies that advertise on Michael Savage’s nationally-syndicated radio program to express their concerns about the host’s […]
Video: CAIR-OK Joins Interfaith Press Conference on Quran Flap
The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) recently co-sponsored a news conference with the Islamic Society of Tulsa and interfaith leaders in reaction to Islamophobic remarks by lawmakers in that state who rejected Qurans sent as gifts from an ethnic advisory council.In rejecting the Qurans, Islam’s revealed text, some lawmakers made stereotypical […]