CA: Use of Taser on UCLA Student Criticizes
Even with use of force policies that are “unduly permissive,” a UCLA police officer violated department rules when he repeatedly shocked a student with an electric Taser gun last fall during a confrontation captured on video and posted on the Internet, according to a report released Wednesday. Los Angeles police accountability expert Merrick Bobb found […]
NY: Catholics Visit Mosque, Learn About Islam
In late July, carloads of curious Catholics caravanned north from their church to a mosque in the next county. Three dozen Catholics who regularly attend Mass at the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement’s Graymoor Spiritual Life Center in Garrison accepted a Muslim visitor’s invitation to attend services at Masjid Al-Noor, his mosque in Wappingers Falls. […]
CAIR Seeks Help for Tenn. Family Trapped in Gaza
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/7/2007) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group is calling on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to help evacuate a Tennessee Muslim mother and her three children trapped in the Gaza Strip.
AZ: Another U.S. Muslim Family Stuck in Gaza
Mohamed “Moe” Hegazy has barely slept for the past month and a half. He has waited 44 days for his family to return from vacation in the Gaza Strip, but they cannot come back to the United States because Hamas, a radical Palestinian faction, seized the region in June. Hegazy has no timetable for his […]
CAIR-Chicago: Wiretap Vote Worries Muslim Americans
AUDIO: http://podcast.wbbm780.com/wbbm/604986.mp3 There’s criticism today from an American-Islamic group of the way a couple of Illinois Democrats voted in Congress last week on President Bush’s proposal to allow the federal government to more easily wiretap phone calls and e-mails without a judge’s warrant. WBBM’s Bernie Tafoya has the story. The two Illinois Democrats are 3rd […]
CAIR: Exploding Bottle May Have Been Hate Attack
Police in suburban Glendale are investigating a series of incidents involving exploding bottles thrown by men from moving vehicles, one of which landed near a Muslim religious leader standing outside a mosque. No one has been injured in the attacks, but a Muslim civil rights group worried that the incident involving the imam early Monday […]
DC: CAIR Launches ‘Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/24/07) – On Tuesday, August 14, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will host a reading at a Washington, D.C., bookstore to launch “Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies,” a new book by Amana Publications. WHAT: Launch of “Islamophobia and Anti-Americanism: Causes and Remedies”WHEN: Tuesday, August 14, 2007, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.WHERE: Busboys […]
DC: CAIR to Host Catholic-Muslim Dialogue
WHAT: American Muslim-Catholic Dialogue: A Model for Communal Understanding WHO: Rev. Francis TisoUnited States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)Secretariat for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs Dr. Muzammil SiddiqiDirector of the Islamic Center of Orange County, California WHY: For more than a decade, American Muslims and Catholics have engaged in substantive exchanges. Father Francis Tiso and Dr. […]
Overstretched US Cuts Aid to Israel
America has been forced to withhold funding from its key ally in the Middle East amid the strain of paying for its expensive military campaign in Iraq. Washington had promised Israel a substantial increase in its financial support to bolster it against Iran. But US officials decided to amend their pledge because of escalating costs, […]
Incitement: CO Radio Host Agrees, Muslims ‘A Sick Race’
KHOW guest host Pate on Muslims: “It’s a violent community … They have honor killings … [T]hey will kill their own wives; they will kill their own daughters”http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200708080003 On the August 8 broadcast of 630 KHOW-AM’s The Peter Boyles Show, guest host Lou Pate joined a caller in denigrating Muslims and the Islamic faith. Pate […]