Poll: Most Know Those With Anti-Muslim Feeling
CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. A majority of Americans say they know people who have negative feelings toward Muslims because of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. Fifty-five percent say they know someone […]
CAIR-MI: Israelis Pose as U.S. Agents to Recruit Informants
The issue of FBI informants in mosques has been a hot-button topic in recent years for the Arab American and Muslim communities, and now, according to a recent report in the Washington Post, the subject of informant recruiting could take on yet another dimension in what officials of prominent civil rights groups are calling an […]
CAIR-WA: Zero Tolerance for Threats of Violence
The editor of “The Seattle Weekly” reports in the paper’s latest edition that cartoonist Molly Norris, acting on FBI advice, is dropping her weekly cartooning for the publication. She is also going to stop her regular cartoons for “City Arts.”It’s the latest development stemming from the sadly vicious reaction to Norris’s advocacy for freedom of […]
CAIR-MI: Hate Crimes, Discrimination Cases Have New Foe
There’s a new civil rights watchdog group in Detroit, formed to help handle some of the most contentious and sensitive areas of law: hate crimes and discrimination lawsuits.The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has created a civil rights unit for metro Detroit, to be headed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Judith Levy. The unit, […]
Rep. Ellison: Beating the ‘Anti-Islam Industry’
At a recent press conference, President Obama responded to a question about growing suspicion of Islam, saying, “We don’t differentiate between us and them. It’s just us.” Unfortunately, this is not the reality that many Muslims here and around the world are experiencing. Nonetheless, Obama’s remarks point to an empirical fact: Millions of Muslims call […]
CAIR: ADL Mosque Coalition a ‘PR Stunt’
The Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman is joining forces with Southern Baptist Convention leader Richard Land and other faith leaders to form a coalition that will defend the right of Muslims to build mosques in their communities. Paradoxically, both faith leaders have taken highly visible stands opposing mosque construction in the best known such battle to […]
CAIR-LA: Media Coverage of Islam Unbalanced
The Greater Los Angeles Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) held a media breakfast at its offices Tuesday morning with reporters and editors from various Southern California news outlets to discuss how the American media portrays Islam and Muslims.The regional office of the Muslim American advocacy and civil liberties group organized the […]
Muslims in Alaska: A Growing Islamic Community
I sat in the back of the gym at the Fairview Recreation Center on Friday, counting the people lined up for prayers at Anchorage’s Eid Day, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. Four hundred. Five hundred. Maybe, with children, close to 600. I went to a similar gathering five years ago, then […]
Texas Resolution Seeks Hostile Treatment of Islam in Textbooks
Just when it appeared the State Board of Education was done with the culture wars, the panel is about to wade into the issue of what students should learn about Islam. The board will consider a resolution next week that would warn publishers not to push a pro-Islamic, anti-Christian viewpoint in world history textbooks. . […]
ACLU/NYCLU Video Challenges Islamophobia
The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) today released a video featuring religious leaders from multiple faiths proclaiming that freedom of religion is a fundamental right. The video is being released in response to an alarming increase in anti-Muslim sentiment and efforts to prevent Muslim prayer spaces from being […]