CAIR-MI: Agents Target Charity Offices
Federal agents were looking for information on terrorist operations and Hizballah activity when they raided two Muslim charities last month, court records show. The agents hauled away computers, files, money and other items from the Dearborn offices of Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization and Goodwill Charitable Organization, two Shi’ite Muslim groups that raised money in metro Detroit. […]
CAIR-MI: Charity Probes Worry South Asians
There is concern in the large South Asian community in Metro Detroit that efforts to provide relief for flood-ravaged Bangladesh and India will be discouraged by recent federal investigations of Muslim charities. “People are concerned about doing fund-raising and relief work amid some of these statements that, for example, contributing to orphans is used as […]
Video: CAIR-FL News Conference Reacting to SC Arrests
CAIR-FL: Muslim Community Reacts to Students’ Arrest
Friends and others in the Muslim community said Yousef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed were arrested because of their race and faith. Deputies in Berkeley County, South Carolina, denied their background factored into their arrest for carrying what police claim are explosive devices. “They were stopped because they were speeding,” Lt. Vince Lombard of the Berkley […]
CAIR-MD/VA: Toddler Denied Immigration Arrives in D.C.
After two years not being allowed entry to the U.S., the 3-year-old son of a Muslim U.S. citizen will be allowed by immigration officials to join his family in Virginia. A spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations says the boy and his father arrived at Reagan National Airport about 10:30 p.m. Monday. Abdeloihab […]
CAIR-LA: ‘Allah Made Me Funny’ Muslim Comedy Tour
“‘Allah Made Me Funny – The Official Muslim Comedy Tour,’ which features three of America’s top Muslim comics including Preacher Moss, Azhar Usman and Mohammed Amer, will be made into a feature-length concert film that will showcase the comics’ on-stage performances and shine a spotlight on their lives.” — Unity Production Films, Spark Media, Handshake […]
CAIR Urges Relief Aid for South Asian Flood Victims
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/7/2007) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called for international humanitarian relief for millions of South Asians suffering from the worst flooding in recent memory. Hundreds have died, hundreds of thousands remain marooned or homeless and up to 50 million people in Bangladesh and India have had their lives disrupted by […]
CAIR Asks Sec. Rice to Help Tenn. Family Trapped in Gaza
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (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. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations […]
Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Remove Hebron Settlers
ISRAELI SOLDIERS REFUSE TO REMOVE HEBRON SETTLERS Backed by rabbis and far-right MPs, about one-dozen Israeli soldiers are refusing to take part in a forced removal of settlers from two houses in the West Bank flashpoint town of Hebron, the army said Monday. The soldiers are among some 3,000 troops and border police due Tuesday […]
UT: Immigrant Admits Link to Anti-Muslim Genocide Group
UT: IMMIGRANT ADMITS LINK TO GENOCIDE GROUP A 56-year-old resident alien from Bosnia who has been living in the Salt Lake City area admitted in federal court Tuesday to failing to mention in immigration documents his involvement with a military group accused of genocide in the massacre of Bosnian Muslims. Federal immigration laws forbid the […]