CAIR-CA: Entertainment Industry Urged to Hire More Muslims
An Islamic advocacy group wants the entertainment industry to present a more positive image of Muslims and Arabs, who often play terrorists on television and in the movies — especially after 9/11, when Arab Muslims attacked the United States.The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles office (CAIR-LA) and FOX Television recently co-hosted a “Hollywood 101” […]
CAIR-IL: Editorial Backs Ramadan Displays in Schools
I guess when you don’t have the guts to call someone a terrorist, anti-American grinch will do.Elizabeth Zahdan might as well have been burning the flag or an effigy of President Bush when she hung up Ramadan lights at an Oak Lawn elementary school a few days back, prompting outrage from other parents and subsequently […]
CAIR-LA: Slurs Used During Attack on California Mosque
(LOS ANGELES, CA, 10/9/07) – On Wednesday, October 10, the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA), along with Muslim and interfaith community leaders, will hold a noon news conference in reaction to a weekend incident in which a group of people smashed car windows and attacked worshipers at a […]
CAIR Joins Call for End to Rights Violations Against Women
Contact: Judith Kargbo 202-225-3816202-225-7080 October 8, 2007 **MEDIA ADVISORY** REPRESENTATIVE SHEILA JACKSON LEE URGES CONGRESS TO PASS LEGISLATION DENOUNCING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST WOMEN Jackson Lee says, It Is Time for Congress to Raise a Unified Voice and Condemn Gender-Based Persecutions Against Women Around the World Washington, D.C. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, together with the […]
Statement of CAIR Executive Director Supporting H. Res. 32
On behalf of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), America’s largest Muslim civil liberties group, I am here to express my support for House Resolution 32. I would also like to express our tremendous appreciation to Representative Sheila Jackson Lee for her leadership on this and other vital issues. CAIR joins in calling for an […]
CAIR-CA: Sheriff’s Employee Allowed to Take Photo with Hijab
(SAN DIEGO, CA, 10/9/07) – The San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) announced today that a Muslim sheriff’s department employee will be allowed to re-take her identification photograph while wearing her religiously-mandated head scarf, or hijab.CAIR-San Diego Public Relations Director Edgar Hopida met recently with the employee relations manager of […]
CAIR-Sacramento: 750 Attend Annual Davis Ramadan Dinner
(DAVIS, CA, 10/9/2007) – Some 750 people, including local and state political representatives, interfaith leaders and law enforcement officials, turned out on Friday for the 7th Annual Ramadan Community Dinner in the City of Davis. The dinner was co-sponsored by the UC Davis Muslim Students Association (MSA), the Davis Islamic Center and the Sacramento Valley […]
AR: Jew, Muslim Build Temple, Bridges for Peace
Just before the school year started in August 1971, Bill Feldman steered his Volvo amid the pickup trucks and horse trailers of small-town Arkansas, bound for his first job as a math professor. He was coming to the Bible Belt as a Jew reared in a Boston suburb, a scholar educated in Canada and Europe. […]
FL: Muslim Women Aim to Dispel Stereotypes
With the venerated, month-long Islamic holiday of Ramadan set to conclude Friday a group of local Muslim women are hoping to put some things right with the world. Sarah Zaouzal of Sarasota is one of the leaders of the new Women’s Committee at the Islamic Society of Sarasota & Bradenton, whose stated goal is, among […]
CA: Guided by Faith, Muslims Going Green
Every morning, Wasi Ahmed Yousaf, 37, of Manhattan Beach, Calif., puts on his sneakers and helmet and commutes to work on his bicycle. Yousaf ditched his car two months ago in favor of a more eco-friendly mode of transportation. Across the nation, Americans are replacing their gas-guzzling SUVs for fuel-efficient hybrids, recycling, conserving water, saving […]