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 […]
Muslim-American Terrorism Down in 2011
Twenty Muslim-Americans were indicted for violent terrorist plots in 2011, down from 26 the year before, bringing the total since 9/11 to 193, or just under 20 per year (see Figure 1). This number is not negligible – small numbers of Muslim-Americans continue to radicalize each year and plot violence. However, the rate of radicalization […]
American Muslims Pose Little Threat, Study Says (NY Times)
WASHINGTON — A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group.The study, to be released on Wednesday, found that 20 Muslim Americans were charged […]
Missouri: Muslim Doctors Open Free Clinic
Athar Khan, of O’Fallon, Mo., had no insurance and no clue where to go when he started having knee pain. “But I found out about the new Volunteers in Medicine West County Clinic through my mosque,” he said Sunday afternoon, as he sat in the waiting room of the clinic in Manchester. “If I didn’t […]
Radio: CAIR Rep Discusses Military Detention of U.S. Citizens
CAIR Government Affairs Coordinator Robert McCaw discusses the military detention of U.S. citizens on KBOO community radio.Listen to the interview here.