MO: Muslims to Wear Pink Hijabs for Breast-Cancer Awareness
After years of watching non-Muslims warily eye her religious attire, Hend El-Buri joked with some veiled friends that it might finally break the ice if they all wore bright pink hijabs to their University of Missouri classes one day. The wardrobe whim has evolved into a national campaign involving thousands of other Muslim students, aiming […]
CA: Muslim Women Explain Misconceptions
In the spring of 2004, Dr. Waheeda Samady decided to wear a black head scarf, or a hijab, for the first time in her life, even though she has always been a practicing Muslim. Her classmates in medical school immediately asked if someone she knew had died, she said. Their second conclusion, she said, was […]
Evangelicals Pay Iranian Jews to Move to Israel
U.S. evangelical Christians are offering Iranian Jews $10,000 per person to immigrate to Israel. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which is sponsoring the program, has raised $1.4 million for the aliyah project. It increased the grant offer to $10,000 from $5,000 after a lower-than-expected response rate, The Associated Press reported. The fellowship claims […]
‘Islamo-Fascism’ Week Speaker Meets with European ‘Neo-Nazis’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/21/2007) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) revealed today that the main speaker for an upcoming series of “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” lectures at university campuses nationwide recently offered a keynote address at a European gathering that included representatives of racist or “neo-Nazi” political parties.Author Robert Spencer, who is scheduled to appear beginning […]
FL: Muslim Man Freed, Given No Reason for Detention
Iyad Abuhajjaj walked out of jail last week with as many questions as he had when he went in 7-1/2 months earlier. Over those weeks, he had been questioned by police detectives, FBI agents, newspaper reporters and attorneys. Every part of his life from birth to now was spilled and discussed in detail with strangers. […]
U.S. Reps Apologize to Falsely Accused Canadian Muslim
A clutch of U.S. congressmen apologized publicly yesterday to Maher Arar, the man Canada’s Mounties once fingered as a terrorist and who was later shipped by the Bush administration to Syria where he was tortured. “Let me personally give you what our government has not – an apology,” said Bill Delahunt, a Massachusetts Democrat, who […]
CAIR: Inner Drive Takes Muslim Woman to D.C.
A young local Muslim lauded by Bakersfield and Pasadena city leaders for her continuous community activism has become the highest-ranking woman in America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group.Tahra Goraya, 34, was hired in September as the Washington, D.C.-based deputy director and chief operating officer for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. That makes her the organization’s […]
CAIR-NY Hosts Nationwide ‘Islamophobia Tour’ Event
(NEW YORK, N.Y., 10/18/07) – On Sunday, October 21, the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) will host a panel discussion entitled “Islamophobia: Institutionalized Racism?” The event is part of a series of discussions scheduled around the nation, addressing the issue of “Islamophobia,” or fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims.The […]
CAIR-NV Opens Office with Ribbon-Cutting
The Council on American Islamic Relations will hold a ribbon-cutting today in Las Vegas to mark the official opening of its first chapter in Nevada. Mayor Oscar Goodman is scheduled to assist in the ribbon-cutting at the new office, located at 501 S. Sixth St., and to deliver brief remarks during the 2:30 p.m. ceremony.Yasser […]
WA: Muslims Counter Campus Event
A controversial week of events, billed as Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, launches at the University of Washington and some 100 other colleges next week — drawing condemnations from Muslim groups here and across the country. The UW College Republicans, organizer of the local events, say the week is intended to foster awareness of the terrorist threat […]