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CAIR-FL: Mosque Critic Calls Islam an ‘Evil Cult’

CAIR-FL: CONTROVERSIAL NEW MOSQUE IN POMPANO BEACH MAY BE YEARS AWAY Pompano Beach Abdesslan Jerrardi regularly stops at the Islamic Center of South Florida for Friday prayers. But Jerrardi, of Margate, longs for the day when Muslims are not packed into the men’s worship room, elbow to elbow. “A lot people want to come here, […]

CAIR-FL: Racist Slurs Used During Attack on Muslim Woman

RACIST SLURS USED DURING ATTACK ON TAMPA MUSLIM WOMAN (TAMPA, FL, 7/1/07) – On Sunday, July 1, the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Tampa) will hold a news conference to call on law enforcement authorities to bring hate crime charges against a man who allegedly used Islamophobic and racist slurs during an […]

Poll Shows Near Collapse of ‘Certain Republican’ Arab Voters

POLL SHOWS NEAR COLLAPSE OF ‘CERTAIN (TO VOTE) REPUBLICAN’ ARAB VOTERS Dr. James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, yesterday presented the first-in-a-series of surveys on Arab American political opinion leading up to the 2008 presidential election. The nationwide AAI poll, conducted by Zogby International, randomly surveyed 501 Arab American registered voters by phone. […]

PA: Philly’s Top Cop is Muslim

PA: TOP COP AT TWILIGHT The sleek black Crown Victoria rolled along the shattered block of Bouvier Street and all talk stopped. Even the youngest kids on this desolate North Philadelphia street know what was up. A cop had arrived. The car pulled up to a narrow, green rowhouse. A burly cop stepped out in […]

CAIR-LA: United at the ‘Heart’

CAIR-LA: UNITED AT THE ‘HEART’ Paramount Vantage co-sponsored a panel discussion and screening of “A Mighty Heart” — the film depicting the kidnapping and death of American Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl — with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Progressive Christians Uniting (PCU), on June 21. The panel, “Building Unity and Understanding in Today’s […]

CAIR-MI: Mosques Receive Jewish Sacred Texts

CAIR-MI: SHARING FAITHS: PROGRAM BRINGS SACRED JEWISH TEXTS TO MOSQUES A national pilot program to link Jews and Muslims with sacred books kicked off in Detroit on Thursday with the delivery of 17 Jewish books to one of the city’s leading mosques. “I hope this idea extends from Detroit across the U.S. and even throughout […]

CAIR-TX Welcomes New Executive Director

CAIR-DFW WELCOMES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (DALLAS, TX, 6/29/07) – The Dallas/Ft. Worth office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-DFW) is pleased to announce the appointment of a new executive director, H. Mustaafa Carroll. Carroll has been on the CAIR-DFW board for the past two years, and the executive committee for the past year serving […]

CAIR-CA Rep Leads Students on University Tour

CAIR-SAN DIEGO REP LEADS UNIVERSITY TOUR FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS (SAN DIEGO, CA 6/29/2007) – A representative of the San Diego office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) recently led a tour of San Diego State University for 40 seventh and eighth-grade students from the Arabic Studies Program at Carver Elementary School. The […]