MA: Neo-Fascism Awareness Week
This week, student organizations at nearly 150 American colleges and universities will be organizing events for “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,” a national right-wing exercise in irrationality orchestrated by The David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Terrorism Awareness Project. The mission of the campaign, according to their Web site, is “to confront the two Big Lies of […]
MD: Muslims Experience Difficulty Buying Land
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s difficulty in buying land in Walkersville is giving déjà vu to a Frederick Muslim who experienced similar trouble seven years ago. When 400 Muslim families in Frederick County wanted to buy 100 acres near Buckeystown for a mosque in 2000, the Frederick Board of County Commissioners blocked the move, saying the […]
Mideast Hawks Help to Develop Giuliani Policy
Rudolph W. Giuliani’s approach to foreign policy shares with other Republican presidential candidates an aggressive posture toward terrorism, a commitment to strengthening the military and disdain for the United Nations. But in developing his views, Mr. Giuliani is consulting with, among others, a particularly hawkish group of advisers and neoconservative thinkers. Their positions have been […]
CAIR-CA: Mosques Open Doors to Evacuees, Offer Prayers for Rain
CAIR-CA: Bill May Revamp School Bias Rules
The state Department of Education will check to make sure school districts have policies and procedures in place to address reports of bias-related discrimination and harassment – something many California districts do not have. Several advocacy groups – the Asian Law Caucus, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the Council on American-Islamic Relations […]
CAIR: ‘Islamo-Fascism’ Week a Who’s-Who of Muslim-Bashers’
Rick Santorum is back.And, boy, is he angry! The former Pennsylvania senator spoke last night at the University of Pennsylvania on terrorism and Islamic extremism, saying that liberals are downplaying a grave threat to the United States.“The president says we’re at war with terror. Nobody wants to define who this enemy is because they don’t […]
CAIR-Tampa Director Honored as ‘Influencer’
Who? Ahmed Bedier, 33, is the executive director of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).Sphere of influence: Bedier heads up the second-largest CAIR group in the nation. The media regularly quotes him on Muslim-related events, and religious groups frequently tap him for educational lectures on Islam. Bedier also co-hosts True Talk, […]
CAIR-LA: ‘Islamo-Fascism’ Week ‘an Attack on Islam’
As Muslim students and their supporters protested outside, commentator Ann Coulter told a USC audience Wednesday night that Americans should get tough on terrorists and “stop genuflecting before Islam.”Coulter’s speech to a supportive audience of about 230 in Annenberg Auditorium was part of a nationwide series of events on college campuses that has been dubbed […]
CAIR-OK: Interfaith Leaders to Respond to Quran Controversy
(TULSA, OK, 10/25/07) – On Friday, October 26, the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) will co-sponsor 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 […]
ISLAM-OPED: HLF a Case ‘Strung Together With Macaroni Noodles’
The HLF Mistrial: A Case ‘Strung Together With Macaroni Noodles’By Parvez AhmedWORD COUNT: 777[Parvez Ahmed is board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. He may be contacted at: pahmed@cair.com]Against heavy odds, the American justice system has prevailed once again. After a record 19 days […]