NY: Hate-Mongering Hannity Targets Arab School
Just one day after Sean Hannity held himself up as a standard bearer for journalistic integrity, he and FOX News embarked on a smear campaign against a new NYC public school that will focus on Middle Eastern studies. An article in the New York Sun (hardly a liberal publication) makes clear that the school will […]
NY: Jail Guard Who Aided Muslims Faces Charges
The federal government is threatening an official at a Brooklyn jail with imprisonment if he gives legal assistance to several Muslim men who are suing over their detention following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The guard who received the unusual warning, Steven Barrere, is currently a defendant in a prison abuse suit brought by […]
CAIR: 9/11 Bill Prompts Warnings of Racial Profiling
As Democratic leaders crowed Wednesday about nearing completion of a bill to implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations, some civil liberty advocates and lawmakers were furious that conferees slipped in language that they said could substantially increase racial profiling across the country. The measure would grant liability protection for people who divulge information to authorities about […]
CAIR-NJ: Town Has Its Own Kind of Jihad
CAIR-NJ: NEW JERSEY TOWN HAS ITS OWN KIND OF JIHAD The working-class town of Paterson, New Jersey, with ties to September 11, 2001 both real and imagined, has its own jihad. Because of his name, 15-year-old Jehad Faleh knows there are many usages for the Arabic word jihad, and many Arabic speakers say the one […]
CAIR-MI: Feds Try to Tie Charity to Terror
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday declared a Dearborn-based charity a front for the terrorist organization Hezbollah as FBI agents shut the group’s offices and carted away boxes of records. FBI agents raided the offices of Goodwill Charitable Organization Inc. on West Warren Avenue near Schaefer Road. They also raided the nearby offices of the […]
CAIR-MI: Muslims Upset by FBI Raid of Charity
CAIR-MI: MUSLIMS UPSET BY FBI RAID OF CHARITY For $500 a year, you could sponsor a needy orphan in Lebanon through the Dearborn office of the Al-Mabarrat Charitable Organization. And many metro Detroiters did — through fund-raisers in mosques and boxes at Dearborn restaurants that read “Orphan’s happiness depends on your donation.” Even some politicians […]
CAIR-OH: Americans Must Embrace Other Faiths
CAIR: AMERICANS MUST EMBRACE OTHER FAITHS Dr. Asma Mobin-Uddin is a woman I respect and trust (Forum column, July 16). It is important for all to become informed about religions other than our own. The Islamic faith teaches peace and respect for humanity. We cannot afford to be ignorant any longer. I once attended a […]
CAIR Rep Discusses ‘John Doe’ Bill on MSNBC’s ‘Tucker’
CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper supports the “good faith” provision of the so-called “John Doe” bill on MSNBC’s “Tucker.”
CAIR Welcomes UK PM’s Change on Islam Rhetoric
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/26/07) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed a recent move by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to de-link war rhetoric from the religion of Islam. He instructed his ministers to drop the phrase “war on terror” from their rhetoric and to avoid using the word “Muslim” in connection with discussions […]
CAIR-FL Rep Discusses Islamic View of Human Rights
http://www.cairfl.org/ViewArticle.asp?Code=PR&ArticleID=804CAIR-Tampa Executive Director Ahmed Bedier delivers a speech at a Tampa church on the Islamic perspective of human rights and violence.