Dearborn Heights Police Department now providing halal food to detained Muslims
The Arab American News, 5/9/2013 DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Local civil rights groups have welcomed the Dearborn Heights Police Department’s recent decision to provide halal food to Muslims who are detained in their custody. In recent months, members of the Council on American Islamic Relations of Michigan has held meetings with the Dearborn Heights mayor and […]
Investigative Report: American Islamic Congress Funded by Islamophobes
Max Blumenthal, The Electronic Intifada, 7 May 2013 On 18 April, three days after a bombing killed three and left many more wounded at the Boston marathon, a figure unknown to most Americans stepped suddenly into the national spotlight. At a nationally broadcast interfaith service addressed by President Barack Obama, a Mauritanian-born social media activist […]
Video: CAIR Rep on CNN with Va. Muslim Army Reservist Assaulted in Bias Attack
Muslim cabdriver alleges assault by passenger who cited Boston Marathon bombing
By Joe Stephens and Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 4/30/2013 An Army reservist and Iraq veteran who works as a cabdriver says a passenger he picked up early Friday at a Northern Virginia country club accused him of being a terrorist because he is Muslim, then fractured his jaw in an attack being described by Islamic […]
American women who converted to Islam speak out
By JoNel Aleccia, NBC News When an American convert to Islam was revealed as the wife of the dead Boston bombing suspect, Lauren Schreiber wasn’t surprised at what came next. Comments from former acquaintances and complete strangers immediately suggested that 24-year-old Katherine Russell, a New England doctor’s daughter, must have been coerced and controlled by […]
Boston attacks: Islam condemns violence, Muslim leader reiterates
By David Olson, The Press-Enterprise, 4/19/2013 As news emerges that the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were from the predominantly Muslim Russian republic of Chechnya, an Inland Muslim leader emphasized something he’s had to repeat every time a suspect in a terrorist attack is Muslim: Violence against innocent people is a severe violation […]
Boston mosque cancels Friday prayer, condemns terrorism
Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY, 4/19/2013 The largest Islamic worship center in New England, the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, announced on its website Friday that it was closed until further notice, shortly after it news reports said a young man who had worshiped there was one of the Boston Marathon bombers. The FBI […]
Video: CAIR’s Nihad Awad on Democracy Now! to discuss Boston bombing media coverage
We discuss the media’s coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing with Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. You can watch the full video on Democracy Now! Contact Fox News (As always, be polite and respectful.)
U.S. Muslims mobilize to prevent Boston backlash
David Gibson and Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service, 4/16/2013 No sooner had the reality of the Boston Marathon bombing sunk in on Monday (April 15) afternoon than Muslim activists in the U.S. began sending out a slew of news releases, tweets and Facebook messages urging prayers and aid for the victims — and condemning whoever […]
Man Files Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Against Westerville Company
NBC4, 4/13/1203 WESTERVILLE, Ohio – A lawsuit filed by attorneys with the Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations on behalf of a Columbus man alleges religious discrimination by his former employer in Westerville. Yusuf Sufi is a native of Somali who said he was fired after asking for a religious accommodation to leave […]