CAIR: Project Forms Bridge Between Cops, Muslims
CAIR: PROJECT SERVES AS BRIDGE BETWEEN COPS AND COMMUNITY Strengthening rapport with the city’s Arab-American and Muslim communities required Anaheim police officer Omar Adham to show his trustworthiness. Being Egyptian-American and speaking some Arabic were assets for the officer, but in a way, his uniform spoke louder. “Typically, overseas there’s a distrust of police, and […]
Islam Op-Ed: The Middle Path to Democracy in the Middle East
ISLAM-OPED: THE MIDDLE PATH TO DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST ISLAM-OPED is a national syndication service of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) designed to offer an American Muslim perspective on current political, social and religious issues. ISLAM-OPED commentaries are offered free-of-charge to one media outlet in each market area. Permission for publication will be […]
CAIR Hosts Town Hall Meeting on Airport Profiling
CAIR HOSTS TOWN HALL MEETING ON AIRPORT PROFILING The Washington DaybookApril 27, 2007 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) hosts a town hall meeting on airport profiling in the case of the Imams against US Airways. WHEN: Friday, April 27, 7 p.m.WHERE: 46903 Sugarland Road, Center Main Hall, Sterling, Va. CONTACT: 202-742-6409/ 202-488-8787 PARTICIPANTS: Nihad […]
ME: Reflections on High-Tension Week in Community
ME: SOMALIS, OTHERS REFLECT ON HIGH-TENSION WEEK IN COMMUNITY RELATIONS The past week has been tough for the community, Somali and Franco-Americans attending a community dialogue at the Franco American Heritage Center agreed Monday. “A lot of anger and hate has been flying around,” said Steve Wessler of the Center for the Prevention of Hate […]
CT: ‘The Muslim Trainer’ Offers Weight-Loss Tips
CT: ‘THE MUSLIM TRAINER’ SIGNS BOOKS, OFFERS WEIGHT-LOSS TIPS In the past two years, when Mubarakah Ibrahim wasn’t leading a fitness boot camp, tending to her four children, teaching yoga at her fitness studio, or chatting with Oprah, she was writing a book. The Ten Commandments, actually. Of weight loss. Ibrahim’s book, Fat Loss 10, […]
CA: Muslim Students Prayed at School Lawfully
CA: MUSLIM MIDDLE SCHOOLERS WHO PRAYED AT SCHOOL DID SO LAWFULLY An investigation has found San Diego school district officials did not violate any laws by allowing a group of Muslim students to pray at school. Earlier this month, a substitute teacher alleged a school employee at Carver Middle School leads a group of Somali […]
NY: Lawyers to Probe Anti-Islam Tracts at Jail
NY: OUTSIDE LAWYERS HIRED FOR PROBE OF ANTI-ISLAMIC TRACTS AT JAIL Rockland jail officials will meet again with members of the Islamic Center of Rockland to update them on the investigation into whether the jail chaplain distributed anti-Islamic tracts. The meeting will be next week, Jail Chief William Clark said yesterday. Local Muslims called for […]
DC: CAIR Board Member Joins Panel on U.S. Muslim Diversity
DC: AMERICAN MUSLIMS EMBRACE DIVERSITY, DECRY STEREOTYPES, PANEL SAYS American Muslims are as diverse in outlook and views as any other group in the United States, but they continue to struggle under the burden of frequent stereotypes and misunderstanding, according to a distinguished panel of religious scholars and journalists who participated in a symposium at […]
CAIR Commentary: Democracy, Sure – But on Whose Terms?
DEMOCRACY SURE, BUT ON WHOSE TERMS? I am writing this from my hotel room in Doha, Qatar where I have been invited to speak at the 7th Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade. Back home this event has perhaps not received any public attention. While the smallest of violent event from the Muslim […]
Poll: Muslims Believe Goal to Weaken Islam
MUSLIMS BELIEVE GOAL TO WEAKEN ISLAM – POLL More than 70 per cent of Egyptians, Pakistanis, Indonesians and Moroccans believe the United States is trying to weaken and divide the Islamic world, a new poll showed. The survey by www.WorldPublicOpinion.org also showed more than 40 per cent thought that was the primary goal of the […]