CAIR-CA: Civil Rights Report Cites 25% Increase
CAIR-SAN DIEGO: CIVIL RIGHTS REPORT CITES 25% INCREASE With polls showing at least one in four Americans harbors some prejudice toward Muslims, a national Islamic rights group reported yesterday that complaints of civil rights abuses rose 25 percent last year. Some 2,467 complaints were made in 2006 to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, […]
CAIR-IL: Bias in Muslim Citizenship Delays
CAIR-CHICAGO: MORE MUSLIMS CITE RACISM IN SEEKING U.S. CITIZENSHIP Delays in the citizenship process caused a spike in civil rights complaints by Muslims in Illinois last year, a civil liberties group reported Tuesday. The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations received 412 reports of discrimination last year, ranking Illinois second in the U.S. […]
CAIR-IL: Jump in Civil Rights Complaints by US Muslims
CAIR CITES JUMP IN CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINTS FILED BY MUSLIM-AMERICANS There have been a significant jump in civil rights complaints filed by Muslim-Americans. That’s the result of a report called “Presumption of Guilt.” It was released in Chicago today by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. In 2006, CAIR processed 2,467 civil rights complaints. […]
CAIR-OH: Muslims Report More Bias
CAIR-CINCINNATI: MUSLIMS IN U.S. REPORT MORE BIAS Civil rights complaints by Muslims in 2006 increased by 25 percent over the previous year, according to an annual national report on the status of Muslim civil rights in the United States. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which issued the report last week, received 2,467 complaints nationwide last […]
CAIR-CA Hosts Youth Leadership Workshop
CAIR-SFBA HOSTS YOUTH LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP, LAUNCHES YOUTH CLUB (SANTA CLARA, CA, 6/20/07) – On Saturday, June 16, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) held its second Youth Leadership Workshop of 2007, titled “Framing the Media Message,” at the South Bay Islamic Association (SBIA) in San Jose, Calif. Organized […]
CAIR-MN Guide Dog Initiative Can Have ‘Positive Impact’
ACB REP: CAIR-MN GUIDE DOG INITIATIVE CAN HAVE ‘POSITIVE IMPACT’ The following letter was sent to the chairwoman of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) by Ken Rodgers, immediate past President of the Minnesota office of the American Council of the Blind, after he attended CAIR-MN’s first annual banquet on June […]
Iraq: A War on Rewind, in a Bleaker Baghdad
IRAQ: A WAR ON REWIND, IN A BLEAKER BAGHDAD In Iraq, after four years and three months of war, the echoes have begun to echo themselves. American troops are taking Baghdad’s streets back from insurgents. The prime minister has a plan for national reconciliation. To the south, in the ”triangle of death,” two U.S. soldiers […]
NJ: Iraqi Girl Travels to NJ for Surgery
NJ: AN IRAQI GIRL TRAVELS TO CLIFTON FOR LIFE-CHANGING SURGERY Zainab Jabbar, 11, of Baghdad holds flower petals in the backyard of her temporary home in Clifton, where she and her mother are staying with a local family while she receives care for severe scoliosis, a debilitating curvature of the spine. The mood is tense. […]
CAIR-MI: Few Iraqis Find Refuge in US
FEW IRAQIS FIND REFUGE IN US June 20th is International Refugee Day so we are turning our attention to the refugee situation in Iraq. The United Nations says nearly four million Iraqis have fled from their homes seeking refuge in either safer regions of their country or abroad. And every month at least 40,000 more […]
CAIR-CAN: Muslims Say List a No-Go
CAIR-CAN: MUSLIMS SAY LIST A NO-GO The federal government should scrap the “no-fly” list until it fixes fundamental flaws in the program, said the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations. “For a list that so severely impacts the civil liberties and mobility rights of the people — that should be debated in Parliament,” said spokesman Sameer […]