Poll Shows Near Collapse of ‘Certain Republican’ Arab Voters

POLL SHOWS NEAR COLLAPSE OF ‘CERTAIN (TO VOTE) REPUBLICAN’ ARAB VOTERS Dr. James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, yesterday presented the first-in-a-series of surveys on Arab American political opinion leading up to the 2008 presidential election. The nationwide AAI poll, conducted by Zogby International, randomly surveyed 501 Arab American registered voters by phone. […]

PA: Philly’s Top Cop is Muslim

PA: TOP COP AT TWILIGHT The sleek black Crown Victoria rolled along the shattered block of Bouvier Street and all talk stopped. Even the youngest kids on this desolate North Philadelphia street know what was up. A cop had arrived. The car pulled up to a narrow, green rowhouse. A burly cop stepped out in […]

MA: Groups Call for Religious Tolerance at Mosque Site

MA: IN ROXBURY, A CALL FOR RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE Rabbis came in yarmulkes, priests wore their Roman collars, and imams dressed in knitted caps and the loose-fitting gowns called thobes. About 300 people, from Jews in sandals to suited Christians to Muslims in sequined veils, gathered beneath the arched brick entrance of the city’s newest mosque […]

CAIR: MD Police Trained in Israeli Techniques

LESSONS IN COUNTERTERRORISM: MD. POLICE LOOK TO ISRAELI EXPERTS FOR TRAINING IN SECURITY TECHNIQUES On a steamy Mediterranean morning this week, Baltimore County Police Capt. Roman Zaryk stood on the spot where a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Dolphinarium disco in 2001, killing 21 Friday night partygoers, many of them teenagers. Suicide bombers, […]

CAIR: Poll Finds Mistrust of Bush Abroad

CAIR: POLL FINDS MISTRUST OF BUSH ABROAD Fueled by the Iraq war and the perception that the United States acts without consulting others, anti-Americanism is on the rise across the Muslim world and much of Europe, while global confidence in President Bush has plummeted, a global poll released yesterday shows. Confidence in Bush “continues to […]

Video: CAIR Rep Welcomes Announcement on OIC Envoy

VIDEO: CAIR REP WELCOMES APPOINTMENT OF U.S. ENVOY TO OIC CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper on Fox’s ‘Special Report with Brit Hume’ discusses President Bush’s recent decision to appoint a special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a world body made up of 57 Muslim-majority nations. VIEW THE VIDEO:http://www.cair.com/default.asp?Page=articleView&id=44416&theType=NB PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: Fox […]

CAIR Rep Welcomes Announcement of Envoy to OIC

CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper on Fox’s ‘Special Report with Brit Hume’ discusses President Bush’s recent decision to appoint a special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a world body made up of 57 Muslim-majority nations.  

Afghanistan: Attack that Killed Kids Missed Target

AFGHANISTAN: ATTACK THAT KILLED KIDS LIKELY MISSED TARGET The U.S. special operations forces attack June 17 that resulted in the death of seven Afghan children likely missed its primary target, U.S. officials tell NBC News. Abu Laith al Libi – one of al-Qaida’s top commanders – was the primary target of the attack against a […]