Week educates students about Islam’s history, beliefs
By Deena Khattab, Daily Trojan The Muslim Student Union kicked off Islam Awareness Week Monday with an informational event called Islam 101. Speakers Zienab Abdelgany and Yasmin Nouh from the Council on American Islamic Relations gave students in attendance a brief introduction to the history and practices of Islam. The event covered basic information about […]
King County Jail now will allow headscarves
As part of a policy revision reached with a Muslim advocacy group over the last year, King County jails will allow inmates to keep their hijabs, headscarves and other religious head coverings while in detention. By Lornet Turnbull, Seattle Times ing County Jail officials no longer will take away the religious head coverings of inmates […]
A Fragile Relationship Between Muslims and the FBI
By Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 2/28/2013 Early one morning in 2007, Muhammad Chaudhry showed up at the Islamic Center of East Bay in Antioch, Calif., and found seven bullet holes in one of the building’s front windows. The center was the target of arson in 2007 and several other attacks. Soon, agents from the […]
Video: CAIR Rep Discusses Muslim Citizens on No-Fly List with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes
We’ll take a hard look at a series of security policies enacted since 9/11 and the ways in which they erode civil liberties. We’ll talk with Saadiq Long, a U.S. Air Force Veteran who has not been allowed to board a flight to return home to Qatar, to learn how these otherwise invisible security policies […]
NY Times Editorial: Spying on Law-Abiding Muslims
Nearly 30 years ago, the federal courts had to place limits on New York City police surveillance to protect law-abiding citizens who happened to be politically engaged on civil rights and other issues. Based on new court filings in a longstanding suit challenging police surveillance techniques, the courts may need to intervene to stop the […]
Keith Ellison: Congress Must Take Control of Drones
An unmanned U.S. aerial vehicle — or drone — reportedly killed eight people in rural Pakistan last week, bringing the estimated death toll from drone strikes in Pakistan this year to 35. As the frequency of drone strikes spikes again, some questions must be asked: How many of those targeted were terrorists? Were any children […]
Video: Statement of Muslim Community at Newtown, Conn. Interfaith Service with President Obama
Video: Statement of Muslim Community at Newtown, Conn. Interfaith Service with President Obama Statement read by Jason Graves, Al Hedaya Islamic Center, Newtown, Conn. In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful The Muslim community of the Al Hedaya Islamic Center in Newtown, in Connecticut and throughout the nation joins with our fellow Americans […]
Wash. Post Editorial on Request for Muslim School Holidays in MD
Muslim leaders in Montgomery County stress that, in petitioning school officials to set aside an Islamic holy day as an official day off, they are not advocating for any of the currently recognized holidays to lose their designations. The unwillingness to broach that possibility is understandable, given the sensibilities and traditions attached to these holidays. […]
Lemonade Girl (1-minute video)
As-salaamu alaykum (peace be to you), Recently, the parents of nine-year-old Muslim twins reported to CAIR that their children had been facing chronic, anti-Muslim bullying for years. They told us their son was taunted because of his religion and ethnicity, and was told, “All Muslims are dirty and they kill people.” Their daughter was allegedly […]
CAIR Asks for Probe of Portland FBI Over Detention of Muslim Men
A Muslim civil rights organization has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the Portland office of the FBI for coercion and intimidation against Muslims trying to fly home to Oregon from abroad.The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the FBI blocked Mustafa Elogbi and Jamal Tarhuni from flying back to the Portland area last month […]