CAIR-OH Panel: ‘Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid’
CAIR-OH HOSTS PANEL ON ‘PALESTINE: PEACE NOT APARTHEID’ (COLUMBUS, OH, 4/18/07) – The Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ohio (CAIR-OH) hosted a panel discussion on President Jimmy Carter’s current book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” The Panelists included OSU Professors John Quigley and John Mueller, both of whom have authored numerous books and […]
Video: CAIR Featured in PBS Documentary
VIDEO: CAIR FEATURED IN ‘THE MUSLIM AMERICANS’ PROGRAM ON PBS CAIR is featured in “The American Muslims” segment of the PBS Series “America At a Crossroads” looking at life for American Muslims after the 9/11 terror attacks.
Judge Throws Out Motion to Keep AIPAC Trial Secret
AIPAC JUDGE THROWS OUT MOTION TO KEEP TRIAL SECRET – TOP Alleged secrets are the “heart of the case” against two former AIPAC staffers, a federal judge said — and that’s why the government must not keep them from public review. In his most sweeping ruling yet in the case against Steve Rosen, the American […]
Reps. Capuano, Kucinich Come Clean About Israeli Lobby
CAPUANO AND KUCINICH COME CLEAN ABOUT THE LOBBY “AIPAC!” was the forceful one-word answer of Congressman Michael Capuano when we asked him, “Why was the Iran clause forbidding war on Iran without Congressional approval taken out of the recent supplemental for the Iraq war funding?” I nearly fell out of my chair at his reply […]
NY: Dialogue Links Muslims, Jews
NY: BRIDGING A RELIGION GAP Through all the crises in the Middle East over the past 15 years, a small group of Muslim and Jewish families on Long Island has been able to learn from each other, share what they believe and celebrate together. In our violent world, this is no small blessing. So it’s […]
PBS Series: ‘Acceptable Muslim-Bashing’
SOME MUSLIMS ARE NOT BAD I attended an extremely disturbing event Thursday night. It was hosted by WETA, the PBS station in Washington DC, and was part of the national launch of an 11-part PBS series, “America at a Crossroads,” to begin airing April 15. It featured clips from the series followed by a panel […]
Two Lebanese-Americans Among Dead in US Campus Massacre
TWO LEBANESE-AMERICANS AMONG DEAD IN US CAMPUS MASSACRE Reema Samaha, a Lebanese-American student, was among 32 people killed Monday during the worst mass shooting in American history. Samaha, 19, a freshman at Virginia Tech University from Centreville, Virginia, was attending French class when the shooter, identified as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, began a second fatal shooting […]
Debbie Schlussel: 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 […]
Hadia Mubarak Joins ‘Muslim in America’ Chat
ON FAITH: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE MUSLIM IN AMERICA?On Faith Co-Moderator/senior researcher, Georgetown’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding On Faith Live explores What Does it Mean to be Muslim in America during a 90-minute symposium Thursday at Georgetown University. On Faith’s first live event inaugurates Georgetown/On Faith — “a new partnership aimed at providing […]
CAIR: Pleasantly Surprised by ‘Three Ex-Terrorists’ Event
CAIR: PLEASANTLY SURPRISED BY ‘THREE EX-TERRORISTS’ EVENT I was well aware of the positions concerning Islam and Muslims presented by each of the three speakers at the April 16th “Three Ex-Terrorists” event. As a member of the Muslim community of Stanford, I noticed many a Muslim student troubled by the ideology of the speakers in […]