CAIR: Students Calmly Challenge Horowitz’s Hate
What do al Qaeda, Hamas, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Students Association (MSA) all have in common? According to David Horowitz, they are all a part of the greatest threat facing America today: “Islamo-fascism.”Horowitz, a neo-conservative polemicist, visited Princeton on Tuesday as part of “Islamo-fascism Awareness Week.” The national event hit […]
CAIR-CA: College Talk Raises Awareness of Islamophobia
“Islamophobia,” or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, stems from fearing the unknown, Edgar Hopida, spokesman for the San Diego Council on American-Islamic Relations told a group of Palomar College students Wednesday.“It’s a very problematic mentality which takes root from centuries of misunderstanding,” Hopida told the crowd after projecting some statistics on a screen.Almost 60 percent […]
CAIR: Feds Change Security Procedure for Turban-Wearers
Turban-wearers have won the day.Beginning Oct. 27, airport screeners will no longer “pat down” people wearing religious head coverings — if the traveler agrees to undergo alternative security measures. Officials said such alternatives might include walking through a machine that detects explosive chemicals. Or wearers could agree to pat down their own turban, and then […]
CAIR-MI: University Struggles Over Anti-Muslim Letter to Paper
A derogatory letter bashing Muslims in the student newspaper at the University of Michigan-Flint outraged some campus members, prompting a university apology and pleas for stricter journalism standards.But the student editors who published the inflammatory letter – which described all Muslims as “ungrateful, self-centered peons who are beneath the rest of civilized society” and “selfish […]
CAIR-NJ: Muslim Girl’s Beating Not Reported, Family Says
Relatives of Mohamed Shnewer, one of six men accused of plotting to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, said yesterday that his 12-year-old sister was beaten by a boy at her middle school last month — and that school authorities told them to keep quiet.The boy told Mr. Shnewer’s sister there was a terrorist on the […]
CAIR-NJ: School Accused of Hiding Attack on Muslim Student
An Islamic support group and the family of a suspect in the aborted plot to attack Fort Dix yesterday accused Cherry Hill school officials of trying to conceal an alleged assault on the suspect’s 12-year-old sister at a township middle school in September.“New Jersey CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) is very concerned that school […]
CAIR-NJ: Hate Crime Investigated Involving ‘Fort Dix Six’ Suspect’s Sister
The 12-year-old sister of one of the Ft. Dix Six terror suspect says was assaulted at her Cherry Hill school.The family of suspect Mohamed Shnewer spoke out at the Princeton office of the Council of American-Islamic Relations but they didn’t want their faces shown or release the little girl’s name. They said it was for […]
CAIR-NJ: Young Sister of U.S. Army Plot Suspect Assaulted
The 12-year-old sister of a Muslim charged with plotting an armed assault on a New Jersey army base has been attacked and referred to as a terrorist by a teen-ager, family members said on Tuesday.The unidentified girl, a seventh-grade student at Carusi Middle School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was on her way to class […]
CAIR-NJ: Terror Suspect’s Sister Victim of Hate Crime?
The sister of one of the so-called Fort Dix Six says she was the victim of a hate crime at her South Jersey school.The girl’s brother and five other men face charges for a plot to attack soldiers. The victim’s sister, who did not want to be identified, spoke out today.At the headquarters of the […]
CAIR: Transfer Upheld for Teacher Who Arranged Anti-Muslim Talk
The Wake County school board has refused to reverse the transfer of a former Enloe High School teacher who invited to his class a speaker who denounced Islam as a religion of violence.The board announced late Tuesday evening that it was upholding Superintendent Del Burns’ decision to reassign Robert Escamilla from Enloe to Mary Phillips […]