State Dept Sponsors Islamic Hip-Hop Concert in Jerusalem
CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports on an American hip-hop band, with an Islamic twist, performing in Jerusalem. VIDEO: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/10/04/wedeman.mideast.hiphop.jerusalem.cnn
Milton Viorst on ‘The Israel Lobby’
About 30 or so years ago, when I first began to write of my concern that Israel was embarked on a course that would lead only to recurring wars, or perhaps worse, I received a letter from Abraham H. Foxman, then as now the voice of the Anti-Defamation League, admonishing me as a Jew not […]
Authors: Why We Took On the Israel Lobby
Eric Chinski, the editor of John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s provocative new bestseller, asks the authors whether their book is good for the Jews and good for America. This interview originally appeared on the Web site of the publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Why did your article “The Israel Lobby,” which was […]
CAIR-MI: Muslims Seek ‘Safe’ Charities for Giving
Kenwah Dabajah is in a quandary: How can she fulfill a central tenet of her faith, Islam, without putting herself in legal jeopardy?“I was just thinking, I have this money, to whom or to what am I going to give, this year?” said Dabajah, as she considered how to give zakat, a donation required of […]
CAIR-IL: Muslims Say They Lost Jobs for Praying at Work
Last December, JBS Swift and Company — the world’s second largest processor of beef and pork — temporarily suspended operations when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided plants in several states. More than 250 workers at a plant in Grand Island, Nebraska were detained. No charges were filed against JBS Swift and Company, but […]
CAIR Honored at NY Ramadan Iftar
The 11th annual Arab Muslim American Federation Ramadan Iftar was held on Sept. 27. Ramadan is the holiest time of the year for Muslims and is observed through a month of fasting during daylight hours. Iftar is the nightly breaking of the fast through evening meal. This year, Ramadan began on Sept. 11 and will […]
CAIR-IL Rep Discusses Recognition of Ramadan in Schools, Congress
CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab discusses the inclusion of Ramadan with Christmas and Halloween in an Oak Lawn, Illinois school as well as a House resolution acknowledging Ramadan and recognizing Islam as a major world religion.VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJBW2mDCKb0
CAIR-IL Rep Debates Religious Holidays in Schools on ‘Glenn Beck’
CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab debates Glenn Beck and Zuhdi Jasser on allowing the accommodation of Ramadan for Muslim students with Christmas for Christian students in an Oak Lawn, Illinois public school.VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IdBe0oDH4I
MI: Test of Body, Faith for Muslim Athletes
Hunched over, clutching his stomach, Saeed Saleh gasps for air. The cross-country runner has stopped suddenly during a practice sprint around the track at Fordson High in Dearborn. “I couldn’t breathe,” the senior panted. “It came out of nowhere. I wasn’t able to keep on going.” That’s understandable, given that Saeed, like thousands of Muslims […]
Book: Eyewitness to Sabra and Shatila Massacre
BOOK IN A NUTSHELL: Abraham was just 18 years old when he survived the massacre of unarmed and innocent Palestinian refugees living in the Shatila and Sabra camps in Beirut, Lebanon. Beginning in June 1982, the camps came under a three-month siege by the Israeli army, which was trying to rout out members of the […]