CAIR-MI Rep Corrects Misconceptions About Islam
CAIR-MI: MISCONCEPTIONS CORRECTED Last Monday Lake State’s Honors Program hosted a speaker Dawud Walid who is the executive director of CAIR Michigan, (Council on American Islamic Relations). He came to Lake State to speak on the common misconceptions that Muslims and Islam faces. Admissions were free and all were welcomed to attend. This event took […]
CAIR-IL: Gunman’s Scrawl Feeds Anti-Muslim Rants
CAIR-CHICAGO: GUNMAN’S CRYPTIC SCRAWL FEEDS ANTI-MUSLIM RANTS Why did Cho Seung-Hui, the lone gunman responsible for claiming 32 lives at Virginia Tech University Monday, scrawl ‘Ismail Ax’ in red ink on his arm? Eric Benderoff touches on some of the theories in today’s Chicago Tribune. He explains the most popular speculation sweeping the Internet refers […]
CAIR Board Member: Assimilation is Not a Disappearing Act
CAIR: ASSIMILATION IS NOT A DISAPPEARING ACT [Hadia Mubarak is a member of the board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.] “So, where are you from?” sounds as familiar to my ears as the crashing of waves on Panama City Beach and the echoing of the adhan (call to prayer) from the minarets of Jordan’s […]
CAIR-CA Launches Racial Profiling Study
CAIR-SFBA LAUNCHES RACIAL PROFILING STUDY (SANTA CLARA, CA, 4/18/07) – The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) announced today that it will be conducting a study on racial profiling, by documenting all relevant incidents and investigating on behalf of those who may have been profiled based on skin color, […]
CAIR-FL: Muslims to Hold Hate Crimes Town Hall Mtg
FL MUSLIMS TO HOLD HATE CRIMES TOWN HALL MTG (ORLANDO, FL, 4/18/2007) – On Saturday, April 21, the Orlando chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Orlando) will hold a public town hall meeting to raise awareness about hate crimes. Representatives from the FBI, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Melbourne Police Department, Florida Human […]
Video: ‘Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People’
VIDEO: REEL BAD ARABS: HOW HOLLYWOOD VILIFIES A PEOPLE
NJ: Officials Deny Muslim Officer Harassed
NJ: PASSAIC OFFICIALS DENY MUSLIM HARASSED Lawyers representing Passaic County and the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department have countersued a Muslim sheriff’s officer who filed an anti-discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed April 3, denies claims that former provisional Officer Tamir Kozrosh endured harassment for his religious and ethnic background while on the job, and seeks damages […]
NY: Muslims Call for Jail Anti-Islam Chaplain’s Dismissal
NY: ROCKLAND MUSLIMS CALL FOR JAILED CHAPLAIN’S DISMISSAL Local Muslims outraged that the Rockland county jail chaplain distributed anti-Islam tracts to inmates at the jail are calling for her dismissal. Teresa Darden Clapp, an ordained Christian minister, was suspended Thursday for passing out religious cartoon booklets that condemned Islam and contained derogatory depictions and descriptions […]
Canada: Muslim Wears Hijab, Black Belt
CANADA: MUSLIM WOMAN WEARS HER HIJAB AND A BLACK BELT WITH PRIDE When news came that young Muslim girls had been turned away from a tae kwon do competition in Quebec because they wore Islamic head scarves, one of the people upset was the former dean of engineering of the University of Ottawa. Aside from […]
FL: Jewish Group Says Mosque Arson ‘Intolerable’
FL: ISLAMIC CENTER ARSON ‘INTOLERABLE’ As leaders of the Jewish community, we unequivocally condemn the act of arson committed against the Islamic Education Center of Tampa on Thursday morning. This type of hate (to the extent it is determined to be a hate crime) against any individual, group or organization is unacceptable, criminal and against […]