CAIR Responds to Becket Fund Letter on Imams’ Lawsuit
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAIR RESPONDS TO BECKET FUND LETTER ON IMAMS’ LAWSUITMuslim civil rights group says letter based on false allegations (WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/27/07) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today responded to an open letter from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which criticized […]
NC: Vigil Held for Dr. Al-Arian
NC: VIGIL STAGED FOR PALESTINIAN SCHOLAR BUTNER – About 60 people held a two-hour vigil beside Interstate 85 on Saturday for an imprisoned former college professor accused of conspiring with Palestinian terrorists. Sami al-Arian is being held at the Federal Medical Facility near Butner for refusing to testify in a terrorism-related case before a Virginia […]
Zbigniew Brzezinski: Terrorized by ‘War on Terror’
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: TERRORIZED BY ‘WAR ON TERROR’ The “war on terror” has created a culture of fear in America. The Bush administration’s elevation of these three words into a national mantra since the horrific events of 9/11 has had a pernicious impact on American democracy, on America’s psyche and on U.S. standing in the world. […]
CAIR-TX Joins Rally in Support of Immigrant Rights
CAIR-TX: MORE IMMIGRATION RALLIES PLANNED A rally for immigration reform will be at noon Saturday at Dallas City Hall. The rally, which will also call for a halt to immigration raids, will kick off a wave of protests in the coming weeks. Last year, in the biggest protest ever in Dallas, tens of thousands of […]
CAIR-CA Holds Citizenship Rights Forum
CAIR-CA: MEETINGS SET ON CIVIL RIGHTS, LEGAL AID A free legal clinic and a citizenship “know your rights” forum is scheduled today. Community Legal Day is sponsored by the Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “A lot of people have been asking for help, especially on immigration matters,” said Basim Elkarra, executive […]
CAIR-CT: School Project Promotes Tolerance
CAIR-CT: SCHOOL PROJECT PROMOTES TOLERANCE, UNDERSTANDING Colchester – Caitlin Dean was raised not to discriminate against others because of their race or religion. But as a white suburban teen of Italian and Irish descent, she often wondered what it would be like to be the target of such abuse. She found out “behind the burqa.” […]
CAIR-MI: Islam Promotes Social Justice
CAIR-MI: OPPRESSION INGRAINED IN SOME YOUTH Dawud Walid quoted a passage from the Quran to deliver his speech’s point on social justice: Oppression is worse than murder. Walid, who is the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Michigan, was the keynote speaker Friday at the eighth semi-annual event called “Social Justice in […]
CAIR-MI Strives to Bridge Cultures
CAIR-MI: MUSLIM ACTIVIST STRIVES TO BRIDGE CULTURES When Dawud Walid opened the mail one day last June in his Lathrup Village office, he found a torn page of the Quran smeared with feces. It was an unpleasant reminder of the challenges that face the Michigan branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which Walid […]
CAIR Takes On Its Critics
CAIR: MUSLIM ACTIVIST TAKES ON HIS GROUP’S CRITICS The nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has come under increasingly heated suspicion from critics trying to connect it to a radical Islamist political agenda and even link it to terrorist groups. The group held a panel discussion in a U.S. Capitol meeting […]
UN Expert Likens Occupation to Apartheid
UN EXPERT LIKENS OCCUPATION TO APARTHEID A U.N. human rights expert told the U.N. human rights council on Thursday that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is comparable to apartheid. John Dugard, a South African independent investigator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said that ‘anyone who experienced apartheid has a sense of deja vu when visiting the OPT […]