CAIR-NV Director Discusses Discrimination Cases in Nevada
CAIR-NV Executive Director Yasser Moten Discusses Discrimination Cases in Nevada. To listen, click here.
TX: An Unholy Case, Flawed from the Beginning
Thanks to some jurors in a Dallas courtroom who refused to bow to religious bigotry and political pressure, a miscarriage of justice was prevented from running its full, destructive course this week. After years of investigations, weeks of testimony on 197 charges and 19 days of deliberations, the men and women who heard the case […]
CAIR: Prosecutors Should Stop Wasting Money on Witch Hunts
After years of investigations and wiretaps, after three months of court arguments and a record 19 straight days of jury deliberations, the jury could not return a single guilty verdict on the nearly 200 charges in a case against the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation (HLF) an American-Muslim charity.The prosecution asked the jury for justice and […]
OK: New Page Turns in Quran Flap
Gov. Brad Henry and leaders in both the House and Senate said Wednesday they intend to accept a copy of the centennial Quran following a number of refusals by other lawmakers this week. House Speaker Lance Cargill said Wednesday he would keep his copy but also said he would give a centennial Bible to the […]
OK: Quran Fuss Reflection of Times
If this were 10 or 15 years ago and a Muslim sought to gift legislators with a copy of the Quran, our guess is most would have accepted and that would have been that. But 9/11 changed everything, as we’ve seen demonstrated vividly in Oklahoma this week. State Rep. Rex Duncan, a Republican from Sand […]
CAIR-OK: Groups Stand with Muslims in Quran Flap
In a show of solidarity with the Muslim community, representatives of the Tulsa Jewish Federation and several interfaith organizations held a press conference Friday condemning Oklahoma lawmakers who turned down a copy of the Quran.Rep. Rex Duncan, R-Sand Springs, refused a gift of Islam’s holy book earlier this week, saying, “Most Oklahomans do not endorse […]
PA: Expert Presents Islam as Tolerant
The Western world may not hear this too often, but nothing in Islam justifies terrorism, a scholar on the Middle East said Thursday night. “The root of terrorism — it doesn’t have anything to do with Islam,” Medhi Noorbaksh told a gathering of about 60 people in the Forest Resources Building. “ … Terrorism in […]
Attacking Islam Undermines Religious Freedom
Halloween arrived early this year in the guise of “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” held Oct. 22-26 on hundreds of college and university campuses across the nation. Scary speakers like Ann Coulter fanned out to warn students about the lies organizers say are being taught about the war on terrorism in institutions of higher learning. The “protest […]
PA: Woman Sentenced for Hate Note to Arab-American Boss
A Philadelphia hotel supervisor who sent a threatening note to her Arab American boss, citing the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was sentenced today to eight months in a halfway house. It was a rare case of a federal prosecution of a hate crime, and the U.S. Justice Department had sought the maximum penalty: a year-long […]
CA: Anti-Islam Film Sparks Campus Protest
About 40 protesters gathered Wednesday night at Cal Poly to oppose a controversial documentary film and speaker who claims the Islamic religion is rooted in violence. The film “Islam: What the West Needs to Know,” directed by Greg Davis, claims that Islam uses violence to try to quash “other faiths, cultures and systems of government,” […]