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CAIR: Islam Has No Ties to Terrorism

ISLAM HAS NO TIES TO TERRORISM [Parvez Ahmed is chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.] Five years into President Bush’s declaration of the “global war on terrorism,” the latest State Department report shows a 25 percent increase in worldwide terrorist attacks over the previous year. Terrorism is an abominable tactics, not an ideology. Thus […]

CAIR-FL: Florida is Hate Group Hot Spot

FLORIDA IS HATE GROUP HOT SPOT The Islamic Education Center in Tampa is one example of how hatred towards a group can intensify. Enough for someone to light a match last month and set the building on fire. A few months ago in Polk County, Ryan Keith Skipper was stabbed to death because of his […]

NY/MN/AZ: Death Threat Targets Imams Attorney, Plaintiffs

DEATH THREAT TARGETS IMAMS CASE ATTORNEY, PLAINTIFFS (WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/5/07) – The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said today that a “terror” threat has been received by the New York lawyer for six imams, or Islamic religious leaders, suing US Airways over allegations of religious profiling during an incident last fall in Minnesota. http://www.cair.com/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=2732&theType=NR […]

Death Threat Targets Imams Case Attorney, Plaintiffs

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NY/MN/AZ: DEATH THREAT TARGETS IMAMS CASE ATTORNEY, PLAINTIFFS (WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/5/07) – The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said today that a “terror” threat has been received by the New York lawyer for six imams, or Islamic religious leaders, suing US Airways […]

NY: Muslims File $32 Million Bias Suit Against Pharmacy

NY: THIRTY-TWO MILLION DOLLAR DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST BROOKS ECKERD PHARMACY ON BEHALF OF FIVE MUSLIM AMERICANS ON EVE OF RITE AID ACQUISITION The Law Offices of Karl J. Stoecker announced today that it has filed a federal employment discrimination lawsuit on behalf of five Muslim Americans against the Jean Coutu Group (PJC) USA, Inc., […]

Schlussel Suspected VA Tech Shooter Might Be a ‘Paki’

DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL SUSPECTED VA TECH SHOOTER MIGHT BE A “PAKI,” PART OF “TERRORIST ATTACK” Responding to the April 16 mass shooting at Virginia Tech, right-wing pundit Debbie Schlussel “speculat[ed]” in an April 16 weblog post that the shooter, who had been identified at that point only as a man of Asian descent, might be a […]

Incitement: ‘Shoot the Muslims in the Head’

INCITEMENT: SHOOT THE MUSLIMS IN THE HEAD SHOOT THE MUSLIMS IN THE HEAD until they start leaving. They will kill us if we don’t make them leave. HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO NOT KNOW THAT? White people, get tough, and get bigotted. According to demographic trends, after 2008 it will be mathematically […]

NY: Plan for Arabic School in Brooklyn Spurs Protests

NY: PLAN FOR ARABIC SCHOOL IN BROOKLYN SPURS PROTESTS The Khalil Gibran International Academy was conceived as a public embrace of New York City’s growing Arab population and of internationalism, the first public school dedicated to the study of the Arabic language and culture and open to students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. But […]

CA: Muslims, Japanese-Americans Visit Internment Camp

CAIR-LA: PILGRIMAGE TO MANZANAR [Guest writer Munira Syeda, communications coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, contributed her article after her visit to Manzanar with a group of other California Muslims.] In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, setting into motion a mass displacement and detainment of an entire community – […]