Video: CAIR Featured in PBS Documentary
VIDEO: CAIR FEATURED IN ‘THE MUSLIM AMERICANS’ PROGRAM ON PBS CAIR is featured in “The American Muslims” segment of the PBS Series “America At a Crossroads” looking at life for American Muslims after the 9/11 terror attacks.
FL: Muslim Shares Religious Beliefs
FL: MUSLIM SHARES RELIGIOUS BELIEFS Differences among religions come from man’s interpretations of them, not from God’s message, said Samir Khatib, and Muslims believe in the same things as Christians and Jews. Khatib, a Muslim, believes in Jesus, Mary, the Gospels, the Torah and other elements of Christianity and Judaism, as do all Muslims. “If […]
CAIR-MI Rep Corrects Misconceptions About Islam
CAIR-MI: MISCONCEPTIONS CORRECTED Last Monday Lake State’s Honors Program hosted a speaker Dawud Walid who is the executive director of CAIR Michigan, (Council on American Islamic Relations). He came to Lake State to speak on the common misconceptions that Muslims and Islam faces. Admissions were free and all were welcomed to attend. This event took […]
CAIR-IL: Gunman’s Scrawl Feeds Anti-Muslim Rants
CAIR-CHICAGO: GUNMAN’S CRYPTIC SCRAWL FEEDS ANTI-MUSLIM RANTS Why did Cho Seung-Hui, the lone gunman responsible for claiming 32 lives at Virginia Tech University Monday, scrawl ‘Ismail Ax’ in red ink on his arm? Eric Benderoff touches on some of the theories in today’s Chicago Tribune. He explains the most popular speculation sweeping the Internet refers […]
CAIR Board Member: Assimilation is Not a Disappearing Act
CAIR: ASSIMILATION IS NOT A DISAPPEARING ACT [Hadia Mubarak is a member of the board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.] “So, where are you from?” sounds as familiar to my ears as the crashing of waves on Panama City Beach and the echoing of the adhan (call to prayer) from the minarets of Jordan’s […]
Judge Throws Out Motion to Keep AIPAC Trial Secret
AIPAC JUDGE THROWS OUT MOTION TO KEEP TRIAL SECRET – TOP Alleged secrets are the “heart of the case” against two former AIPAC staffers, a federal judge said — and that’s why the government must not keep them from public review. In his most sweeping ruling yet in the case against Steve Rosen, the American […]
Reps. Capuano, Kucinich Come Clean About Israeli Lobby
CAPUANO AND KUCINICH COME CLEAN ABOUT THE LOBBY “AIPAC!” was the forceful one-word answer of Congressman Michael Capuano when we asked him, “Why was the Iran clause forbidding war on Iran without Congressional approval taken out of the recent supplemental for the Iraq war funding?” I nearly fell out of my chair at his reply […]
NY: Dialogue Links Muslims, Jews
NY: BRIDGING A RELIGION GAP Through all the crises in the Middle East over the past 15 years, a small group of Muslim and Jewish families on Long Island has been able to learn from each other, share what they believe and celebrate together. In our violent world, this is no small blessing. So it’s […]
PBS Series: ‘Acceptable Muslim-Bashing’
SOME MUSLIMS ARE NOT BAD I attended an extremely disturbing event Thursday night. It was hosted by WETA, the PBS station in Washington DC, and was part of the national launch of an 11-part PBS series, “America at a Crossroads,” to begin airing April 15. It featured clips from the series followed by a panel […]
Two Lebanese-Americans Among Dead in US Campus Massacre
TWO LEBANESE-AMERICANS AMONG DEAD IN US CAMPUS MASSACRE Reema Samaha, a Lebanese-American student, was among 32 people killed Monday during the worst mass shooting in American history. Samaha, 19, a freshman at Virginia Tech University from Centreville, Virginia, was attending French class when the shooter, identified as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, began a second fatal shooting […]