Police Spying on American Muslims Is a Pointless National Shame
By John Knefel, Rolling Stone Civil liberties groups led by the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition released a new report today detailing the detrimental effects of the NYPD’s spying on Muslim communities in recent years. The report, called Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and its Impact on American Muslims, alleges that more than a decade of […]
Okla. Muslim on No-Fly List Forced to Return to Qatar by Bus, Foreign Flights
By Carla Hinton, The Oklahoman A McAlester native who twice was prevented from leaving Oklahoma to return to the Middle East has made it to Qatar. During a telephone interview Friday, Saadiq Long, a U.S. Air Force veteran who converted to Islam, said he took a bus from Oklahoma City to Mexico, then boarded flights […]
Video: CAIR Responds to New Anti-Islam Ads in DC Metro Stations
“People need to know that Pamela Geller, the sponsor of these ads, is one of the nation’s leading anti-Muslim bigots,” said Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “She’s recognized as that. The Southern Poverty Law Center has named her as one of the nation’s inner circle of hatemongers of Islam.” Watch the video […]
CAIR Michigan Director: Discussion of Drones ‘Long Overdue’
By Detroit News staff and wire reports, The Detroit News U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s demand that the government vow not to use drones on American soil without an “imminent threat” reflects the view of some Arab-Americans in Metro Detroit, the leader of an Islamic advocacy group said Wednesday. “We’ve been long overdue for having a […]
CAIR-LA’s Ameena Qazi: Sister Lawyer
By Gustavo Arellan, OC Weekly Ameena Qazi was in her first year of law school at Wayne State University in Detroit when a professor gave the female students fashion advice that amused her.“She was telling us how to dress when we argue cases in front of a judge,” says the Fullerton resident, who’s the deputy […]
Muslim rights group wants Waite Park, Catholic Charities to reject training
By Stephanie Dickrell and Mark Sommerhauser, Saint Cloud Times An Islamic civil rights group wants Waite Park police to call off a training event on Somali history and culture that the group calls misleading. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) on Monday asked the Waite Park Police Department and Catholic Charities […]
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 […]