Ask Amy: Tough to Defend Anti-Hijab Stand
TOUGH TO DEFEND ANTI-HIJAB STAND Dear Amy: I live in a retirement community where all residents are provided one served meal each day. This meal is served by high school students in a dining area accommodating about 200 residents. These servers are both male and female, and wear white shirts/blouses and black pants/skirts. It is […]
CAIR: Islam Has No Ties to Terrorism
ISLAM HAS NO TIES TO TERRORISM [Parvez Ahmed is chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.] Five years into President Bush’s declaration of the “global war on terrorism,” the latest State Department report shows a 25 percent increase in worldwide terrorist attacks over the previous year. Terrorism is an abominable tactics, not an ideology. Thus […]
Schlussel Suspected VA Tech Shooter Might Be a ‘Paki’
DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL SUSPECTED VA TECH SHOOTER MIGHT BE A “PAKI,” PART OF “TERRORIST ATTACK” Responding to the April 16 mass shooting at Virginia Tech, right-wing pundit Debbie Schlussel “speculat[ed]” in an April 16 weblog post that the shooter, who had been identified at that point only as a man of Asian descent, might be a […]
Incitement: ‘Shoot the Muslims in the Head’
INCITEMENT: SHOOT THE MUSLIMS IN THE HEAD SHOOT THE MUSLIMS IN THE HEAD until they start leaving. They will kill us if we don’t make them leave. HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO NOT KNOW THAT? White people, get tough, and get bigotted. According to demographic trends, after 2008 it will be mathematically […]
CAIR: Chicago Trib Corrects PBS Documentary Story
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS A main news section story Sunday erroneously reported that the Council on American Islamic Relations was among the groups criticizing the documentary “Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center.” The group did not take a position on the film.
NY: Plan for Arabic School in Brooklyn Spurs Protests
NY: PLAN FOR ARABIC SCHOOL IN BROOKLYN SPURS PROTESTS The Khalil Gibran International Academy was conceived as a public embrace of New York City’s growing Arab population and of internationalism, the first public school dedicated to the study of the Arabic language and culture and open to students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. But […]
CAIR-FL: Muslim Leader Receives Mailed Death Threat
CAIR-FL: LOCAL MUSLIM LEADER RECEIVES MAILED DEATH THREAT The FBI is investigating a letter that was sent to the leader of a Florida Muslim group. Altaf Ali, executive director of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said he received the letter Monday. He didn’t report it to the authorities until Wednesday […]
CA: Muslims, Japanese-Americans Visit Internment Camp
CAIR-LA: PILGRIMAGE TO MANZANAR [Guest writer Munira Syeda, communications coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, contributed her article after her visit to Manzanar with a group of other California Muslims.] In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, setting into motion a mass displacement and detainment of an entire community – […]
CAIR-MN: School Ignored Bullying
CAIR-MN: MUSLIMS SAY SCHOOL IGNORED BULLYING An Islamic advocacy group is seeking an investigation into a series of alleged anti-Muslim incidents at a Blaine middle school, in which two girls say they’ve been taunted and had food thrown at them for wearing headscarves. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations alleges that the […]
CAIR-MN: School Investigates Anti-Muslim Harassment
CAIR-MN: BLAINE SCHOOL INVESTIGATES ANTI-MUSLIM HARASSMENT ALLEGATION Westwood Middle School in Blaine has launched an investigation into allegations that Muslim students were taunted and that their complaint was mishandled by school staff. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group, made the allegations public in a letter to the superintendent […]