CAIR: Chicago Trib Corrects PBS Documentary Story
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS A main news section story Sunday erroneously reported that the Council on American Islamic Relations was among the groups criticizing the documentary “Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center.” The group did not take a position on the film.
CAIR-FL: Muslim Leader Receives Mailed Death Threat
CAIR-FL: LOCAL MUSLIM LEADER RECEIVES MAILED DEATH THREAT The FBI is investigating a letter that was sent to the leader of a Florida Muslim group. Altaf Ali, executive director of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said he received the letter Monday. He didn’t report it to the authorities until Wednesday […]
CAIR-MN: School Ignored Bullying
CAIR-MN: MUSLIMS SAY SCHOOL IGNORED BULLYING An Islamic advocacy group is seeking an investigation into a series of alleged anti-Muslim incidents at a Blaine middle school, in which two girls say they’ve been taunted and had food thrown at them for wearing headscarves. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations alleges that the […]
CAIR-MN: School Investigates Anti-Muslim Harassment
CAIR-MN: BLAINE SCHOOL INVESTIGATES ANTI-MUSLIM HARASSMENT ALLEGATION Westwood Middle School in Blaine has launched an investigation into allegations that Muslim students were taunted and that their complaint was mishandled by school staff. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group, made the allegations public in a letter to the superintendent […]
CAIR-MN: Rights Group Seeks Harassment Inquiry
CAIR-MN: RIGHTS GROUP SEEKS HARASSMENT INQUIRY A girl who wears an Islamic head scarf says a fellow student at Blaine’s Westwood Middle School called her a terrorist. Two other Muslim students say food and milk were thrown at them in the cafeteria. And an assistant principal who talked with a Muslim student about the lunchroom […]
CAIR-OH: Border Detentions Target Muslims
CAIR-OH: BORDER DETENTIONS TARGET MUSLIMS, ARAB AMERICANS Abe Dabdoub has never been arrested. He has been issued only one traffic ticket. Last year, the Toledo-area resident was sworn in as a U.S. citizen. Yet since last August, U.S. agents have detained Dabdoub 17 times at the Canadian border. He’s been handcuffed, frisked, fingerprinted, interrogated and […]
CAIR-CA Working to Fight Muslim Stereotypes
CAIR-CA: BAY AREA GROUP WORKING TO FIGHT MUSLIM STEREOTYPES Bay Area Muslims are working hard to show all of the contributions that Muslims have made to society, especially American Muslims. They have launched a new education campaign, called American Muslims, American Stories. Terrorists bombings and attacks, many credited to al Qaeda, not only in Iraq, […]
CAIR-CA: Muslims Defying Negative Stereotypes
CAIR-CA: CONFERENCE PRESENTS MUSLIMS DEFYING NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES Wendy Chang shatters the stereotype of a meek Muslim woman the way a judo chop splits a piece of wood. The 35-year-old nurse at Fremont Kaiser was raised Catholic by her parents, who emigrated from Beijing, but converted to Islam after she met her husband, Faisal Nsour, whose […]
Video: CAIR Executive Director on CNN
CAIR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NIHAD AWAD ON CNN CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad comments on growing perceptions in the Muslim world that the war on terror is really a war on Islam.
CAIR-LA Supports Impartial Probe of LAPD Action
(ANAHEIM, CA, 5/4/07) – The Los Angeles Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today joined CHIRLA and LULAC in supporting an impartial investigation into Tuesday’s incident in which police fired 240 rubber bullets and used batons to disperse a crowd gathered at MacArthur Park. The incident followed a mass immigration rally in […]