CAIR-LA: FBI Creates Climate of Fear
Supporters of the Patriot Act and other expansive efforts to fight the “war on terror” often mock claims by civil libertarians that aggressive federal spying powers within the United States undermines civil liberties. We’ve often heard conservatives ask critics to name anyone who has lost any freedoms because of the government’s post-9/11 powers. Yet such […]
CAIR-OH: Airport Officials, Muslim Cabbies to Discuss Prayers
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport officials will meet Monday with Muslim taxi drivers to try to resolve an issue over a mandate the cabbies say bans them from praying as they wait to pick up passengers. The call for a meeting came a day after a religious advocacy group – the Cleveland Chapter of the Council […]
CAIR: Attacks on Va. Islamic School Agenda-Driven
A controversial private school for Muslim children is seeking to expand a campus in Fairfax County, a proposal that has made reluctant partners of neighbors concerned with the impact on traffic and water quality and critics who oppose what they say is the school’s radical agenda. The Islamic Saudi Academy has asked the county for […]
CAIR-MI: Muslims Heartened by Obama Greeting
The thought weaved through excited conversations in mosques throughout Metro Detroit on Friday, as Muslims gathered for their weekly, public prayer: Is this the beginning of the new era that local Muslims and Arab-American leaders have been urging for years? News that President Barack Obama sent a video greeting to Iranians at the start of […]
NYPD Chaplain Embodies Both Islam and American Culture
Around five in the morning one day in the summer of 2007, just as Imam Khalid Latif was preparing for the salatul-fajr, the obligatory prayer between dawn and sunrise, the phone in his small Manhattan apartment began to ring. He had been up late the night before, having just conducted a nikkah, a Muslim wedding […]
CAIR-NJ: Heated Film About Islamic Terror Shown at Area Church
A controversial film about threats to the U.S. from Islamic radicals was shown on Sunday at a Flanders church not to fuel anti-Islamic sentiment but as an indication of the expected return of Jesus Christ, according to the church pastor. . . The film, however, has been sharply criticized by the Islamic community for inflaming […]
CAIR-OH: Muslim Cabbies Seek Accommodation, Not Special Treatment
A religious advocacy group has asked to meet with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson in order to change a new directive at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport that bans Muslim cab drivers who leave their vehicles to pray. The Cleveland-based chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations said earlier this month that Standard Parking Co., a group […]
National Lawyers Guild Sends Letter to AG Holder on FBI Spying
March 19, 2009 Hon. Eric Holder Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 RE: FBI spying in Mosques Dear Atty. General Holder: I am one of many in Los Angeles who were disgusted and dismayed to learn that the FBI has been covertly inserting spies into Islamic mosques in […]
CAIR: FBI Planting Spies in U.S. Mosques
(CNN) — Ten U.S. Muslim organizations threatened this week to cease working with the FBI, citing “McCarthy-era tactics” by the agency, including efforts to covertly infiltrate California mosques. The groups claim the FBI has sent undercover agents posing as worshippers into mosques, pressured Muslims to become informants, labeled civil rights advocates as criminals and spread […]
IN: Muslim Inmates Segregated, Mistreated in Federal Prison
In February 2007, it was learned that Washington had a secret new facility for so-called “high-security risk” Muslim and Middle Eastern prisoners in violation of federal law that prohibits severely limiting or cutting them off entirely from other inmates as well as outside contacts and communications. Segregating prisoners by race, national origin, or language violates […]