CAIR-NJ: Commission Hears Tales of School Bullying
For more than two hours, speaker after speaker approached the microphone at Lawrence High School to tell the 14-member Governor’s Commission on School Bullying personal stories about children being bullied.Wednesday’s hearing was the first of three as commissioners gather testimony from the public about the problem of childhood bullying throughout the state. The next hearing […]
Video: CAIR-MN Invites FBI Director to Minneapolis Mosque
CAIR-LA: Bail OK’d for Niazi
An alleged brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard was ordered to be released on $500,000 bail Tuesday, and a Muslim advocacy group said it wants a federal investigation into whether he was arrested because he had refused to become an FBI informant. (MORE)
CAIR-LA: Man with Alleged Terror Ties Aided Police in 2007
The Council of American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, scheduled a news conference following Niazi’s court appearance Tuesday to announce it would ask it would ask the attorney general to investigate whether Niazi’s arrest stemmed from his refusal to help the FBI.Council officials said in a statement that they met with Niazi in 2007 and he told […]
NC: Non-Muslim Students Experience a Day ‘Behind the Veil’
As participants in “Behind the Veil,” 28 non-Muslim female students learned about life as Muslim women as they wore head dresses, or hijabs, on Wednesday. “Behind the Veil,” an event Sara Yasin, a junior in textile and apparel management, said she thought up last summer, invited students to experience firsthand the life of Muslim women […]
CAIR: NC Banks to ‘Cordon Off’ Muslim Women Customers
In an effort to deter bank robbers, an area credit union will become among the state’s first financial institutions to restrict their customers from wearing hats, hoods or sunglasses.Officials with the Carolina Federal Credit Union said last week that beginning March 2, it will institute new regulations requiring customers remove head coverings before entering their […]
CAIR: Domestic Abusers ‘Should Not Seek Refuge in Islam’ (NY Times)
Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan, the Muslim-American television executive charged with murdering his wife Aasiya Zubair Hassan in suburban Buffalo 11 days ago, is still in the Erie County Holding Center without bail, awaiting a grand jury trial.On Feb. 12, he told the Orchard Park police that his 37-year-old wife was dead and she was at the […]
CAIR-LA Rep Says More Understanding of Islam Needed
The executive director of a California-based council on American and Islamic relations told hundreds of people gathered at Montana State University Wednesday night that Muslims are a very diverse group of people and simply cannot be categorized in any one way.Muslims are “as diverse as America,” said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on […]
Former Gitmo Guard Tells All (Harper’s)
Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story. “The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was just wrong,” […]
TN: Young Muslims, Jews Work Toward Peace
Shoshana Jaffa sums up the conflict in the Middle East like this: “Everybody wants to meet halfway, but no one knows where halfway is.” Jaffa was one of about 45 Jewish and Muslim teens and young adults who met Sunday at Congregation Micah in Brentwood to discuss the recent fighting in Gaza. It’s part of […]