Ill. Man Indicted for Mosque Bomb Attempt
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday announced that a Fairview Heights, Illinois man was indicted on Tuesday for threatening to detonate an explosive device on a mosque. Roman O. Conaway, 50, was charged on a two-count indictment with making a false threat to detonate an explosive device and with influencing a federal officer […]
CAIR: Most Muslim Countries Allow Churches, Synagogues
The statement: In most Muslim countries, “We can’t have a church. We’re not able to build synagogues. It’s forbidden.” – Franklin Graham, Sunday, on ABC’s This Week The ruling…Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Graham was incorrect. “There are lots of Christian churches and synagogues in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, […]
How Hate Blogs Manufactured the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Controversy
How did a local story about a proposal to build an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan turn into a national controversy about whether a “Ground Zero Mosque” would be a slap in the face to 9/11 victims? It started with a small group of anti-Muslim activists who suggested the proposal was a scheme by […]
‘Daily Show’ Mandvi: Islamaphobia Must End
Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi has called on comedians to advocate freedom of religion. Mandvi hosted the Stand Up for Religious Freedom comedy night in Manhattan on Monday alongside fellow comics John Oliver and Rory Albanese. He told PopEater that he is concerned with a perceived increase in Islamaphobia in the US in recent months. […]
CAIR-NY Video: Xenophobia in America
America is supposed to be a nation of tolerance. These days however, rising anger and resentment seems to be bleeding through her stars and stripes.Propeller Protests against the construction of new mosques, illegal immigration, and economic reform, point to a fear and frustration that has some warning of a US public increasingly swapping patriotism for […]
CAIR-San Diego: Muslim Takes Pride in Afghan Cabdriver Father
Some may be quick to dismiss a brown man with a thick accent as another immigrant cabdriver. Look deeper, and what emerges is a college student whose dreams were lost to war and tragedy.In the morning, before my father and I go our separate ways to work, we chat amiably. “Good luck on your day.” […]
Video: CAIR Rep Debates Islamophobe Pamela Geller on Park51
CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab deconstructs Pamela Geller’s fear mongering misinformation campaign against the Park51 community center in New York and exposes her anti-Muslim bigotry.
NY: Leaders of Town Demand Muslims Dig Up Bodies at Cemetery on Land They Own
The leaders of a tiny upstate town some 180 miles from Ground Zero are demanding that a Muslim group dig up and remove two bodies they buried on their land. They say the group, a Sufi religious order, is maintaining an illegal cemetery in Sidney, N.Y., – pop. 5,993. A spokesman for the Osmanli Naksibendi […]
CAIR-LA: Disney OKs Muslim Intern to Wear Scarf
Disneyland officials have reached an agreement with a Muslim college intern allowing her to wear a head covering while on the job, Muslim community leaders and Disney officials said Monday.Officials with the Council on American-Islamic Relations say the scarf acts as an Islamic head covering, called a hijab, in accordance with her Muslim religion . […]
CAIR-Chicago: Activists Protest FBI Raid
About 350 anti-war activists, clergy members and trade union members demonstrated Monday outside the FBI’s Chicago headquarters and condemned federal authorities for their raids last week of the homes of activists in Chicago and Minneapolis. . . The FBI also searched the Jefferson Park home of Hatem Abudayyeh, executive director of the Arab American Action […]