CAIR Director Meets with OIC Secretary-General
CAIR: AWAD, IHSANOGLU DISCUSS FUTURE CAIR-OIC PROJECTS JEDDAH, 4 July 2007 The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad, attended a meeting yesterday with the secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, discussing cooperation on future projects. “I’m pleased to meet with Ihsanoglu to discuss the […]
CAIR-CA: Cases of Anti-Muslim Bias on Rise
CAIR-CA: CASES OF ANTI-MUSLIM BIAS ON RISE Civil rights violations targeting Bay Area Muslims spiked last year, ranging from schoolyard taunts to deadly assaults, to routine citizenship applications strangled by government red tape. Reports more than doubled from 2005 to 2006, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The nonprofit organization documented 246 incidents in […]
CAIR: Still No Response from GA City on Hijab Claims
CAIR: STILL NO RESPONSE FROM CITY ON CLAIMS VALDOSTA Five days after allegations of discrimination came out against the Valdosta Municipal Court after Judge Vernita Lee Bender denied access to a Muslim woman who was wearing a traditional head scarf, the city has yet to release an official statement. “This is an unfortunate situation,” […]
CAIR: Head Scarf Still Barred from Georgia Court
CAIR: HEAD SCARF STILL BARRED FROM COURT Valdosta — No action has yet been taken to reverse a decision that barred a Muslim woman from entering the City of Valdosta Municipal Court for wearing a religious head scarf. Twenty-year-old Aniisa Karim was trying to contest a speeding ticket when she was told she would not […]
CAIR-LA: Community Urges FBI to Investigate Muslim Convert
CAIR-LA: COMMUNITY URGES FBI TO INVESTIGATE MUSLIM CONVERT (CBS) ANAHEIM, Calif. An Orange County Islamic group called on the FBI Tuesday to speed up a probe of a Muslim convert banned from an Irvine mosque, where members allege he preferred to discuss jihad rather than Islam. Craig Monteilh, who started calling himself Farouk Monteilh in […]
CAIR: Doctors Involved in Terror Betray Faith, Profession
CAIR: BETRAYAL OF OUR FAITH & PROFESSION [Dr. Asma Mobin-Uddin is a pediatrician in Columbus, Ohio, and the board chairwoman for the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).] July 4, 2007 — AS THE investigation of the terror plots in London and Glasgow unfolds, I am experiencing the emotions I often do […]
Statement of Muslims Health Professionals
STATEMENT FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (AMHP) REGARDING RECENT EVENTS UNFOLDING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM It is with a heavy heart that we read about the affair in the United Kingdom. As we consider these events, we hope to remind ourselves and our peers in the health and the Muslim communities of several […]
Canada: Will Quebec Adopt France’s Headscarf Stance?
CANADA: WILL QUEBEC ADOPT FRANCE’S PECULIAR BRAND OF LIBERTY? In September of 1994, 12-year-old Emilie Ouimet arrived at her Montreal high school wearing an Islamic head scarf. The principal ordered her to remove the scarf or face expulsion for violating a school prohibition against all headgear. The code was meant to deter students from wearing […]
Incitement: Women in Burqas Are ‘Hateful Nazi[s]’
INCITEMENT WATCH: SAVAGE SAID HE SEES WOMEN WHO WEAR BURQAS AS “HATEFUL NAZI[S]” WHO WANT TO “KILL YOUR CHILDREN” On the July 2 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, discussing the recent terror-related arrests in Britain, radio host Michael Savage said, “[W]hen I see a woman walking around with a burqa, I see a […]
CAIR Views Conservative Commentary as ‘Incitement’
CAIR VIEWS CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY AS ‘INCITEMENT’ An Islamic advocacy group is urging its supporters to call a Washington, D.C., radio station to “express your concerns about the Islamophobic attitudes” expressed by conservative columnist and author Cal Thomas. In a commentary on news-talk WTOP radio Monday morning, Thomas discussed the car-bomb terror attacks recently thwarted in […]