OK Officer Fired After Incident Involving Muslim Woman
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OK OFFICER FIRED AFTER INCIDENT INVOLVING MUSLIM WOMAN Arkansas woman questioned about decision to become a Muslim (WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/1/07) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that one Oklahoma police officer has been relieved of his duties and another has […]
CAIR: U.S. Muslims Urged to Back Anti-War Move
CAIR: U.S. MUSLIMS URGED TO BACK ANTI-WAR MOVE WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) — U.S. Muslims were urged Monday to take action in support of a Senate resolution opposing the Iraq military build up. The Council on American-Islamic Relations urged “members of the American Muslim community and other people of conscience to urge their senators to […]
CAIR-FL: Man: I Was Hate Crime Victim
CAIR-FL: MAN: I WAS HATE CRIME VICTIM A Muslim civil rights organization is asking for an investigation into what they said was a hate crime at Sam’s Club last week. Ahmed Bedier, executive director of the Tampa Bay chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Derar Ahmad, 30, a Largo resident of Palestinian descent, […]
CAIR-MI: Mosque Attacks ‘Scary’ for Muslims
CAIR-MI: LOCAL MOSQUE ATTACKS ‘SCARY FOR US’ DETROIT — Alice Alaouie is quite frightened by the fact that most people seem to know little about her faith, Islam. The spray painting of hateful graffiti on the side of the old site of her mosque, the Islamic Center of America, and a spike of similar incidents […]
CAIR-CAN: Town Asked to Retract Xenophobic ‘Standards’
RETRACT XENOPHOBIC ‘STANDARDS,’ QUEBEC TOWN ASKED Organizations representing minorities are outraged by a Quebec town’s “standards” for newcomers, calling them insulting and xenophobic. The town council of Hérouxville issued a set of wide-ranging rules for immigrants considering moving there, including bans on beating or burning women alive, veiling one’s face and children carrying symbolic weapons […]
CAIR-MI: Muslim Leaders Speak Out Against Violence
CAIR-MI: MUSLIM LEADERS, POLICE SPEAK OUT AGAINST VIOLENCE With arms linked in solidarity, religious and government officials gathered Thursday outside the original Islamic Center of America in Detroit to condemn – in one voice – recent acts of vandalism against Muslim businesses and religious centers throughout the Metro Detroit area. “As a community, we (gathered) […]
CAIR-FL: Anti-Muslim Fliers Handed Out
CAIR-FL: ANTI-MUSLIM FLIERS HANDED OUT IN PINELLAS COUNTY PINELLAS, FL — A married couple in Pinellas County is raising concerns about an anti-Muslim flier that was left on their front door. And now the FBI is being asked to investigate. The flier was left at Joel and Cheri Harper’s home on 76th Avenue North in […]
CAIR-Tampa Asks FBI to Investigate Sam’s Club Assault
CAIR ASKS FBI TO INVESTIGATE FL SAM’S CLUB ASSAULT The Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations today called on the FBI to investigate an assault that involved ethnic slurs as a hate crime.
Israeli Realism on Iran Belies Threat Rhetoric
ISRAELI REALISM ON IRAN BELIES THREAT RHETORIC WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (IPS) – When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared last week at the Herzliya conference that Israel could not risk another “existential threat” such as the Nazi holocaust, he was repeating what has become the dominant theme in Israel’s campaign against Iran — that it […]
How Jimmy Carter is Saving Israel
HOW JIMMY CARTER IS SAVING ISRAEL The January 13th issue of the Economist included an essay titled “Diaspora Blues” with the following byline: “Jews around the world should join the debate about Israel, not defend whatever it does.” The significance of this statement, in what is the most respected periodical of political analysis in the […]