CAIR Rallies Muslims to Pray Friday for End to Oil Spill
The Council on American-Islamic Relations put out a call Wednesday for Muslims to pray for an end to the BP Gulf oil spill. CAIR asked imams across the country to use sermons this Friday to pray for a resolution to the oil crisis and ensuing environmental disaster. Mosque officials are also being asked to rally […]
Terrorism Against Florida Muslims Goes Under-Reported
Hey, have you heard about all the terrorist attacks that have been going on down in the Jacksonville, Florida region? Probably not, actually, because the would-be victims of these attacks have been members of Florida’s Islamic community, and I’m pretty sure they aren’t deemed eligible by the media to be victims of terrorism. Which is […]
NY: Texas Radio Host Says ‘Bomb that Mosque’
Michael Berry, the former city councilman who hosts a talk show on KTRH each afternoon, has had a federal complaint filed against him by CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. For some reason, they don’t like the fact that when a caller to Berry’s show supported building a mosque near Ground Zero in New York, […]
NY: ‘Leaving Islam’ Ads are Hate Disguised as Help
Is it free speech, subliminal stereotyping or hatemongering? It is all three. Last month, about 30 buses in New York City’s fleet started running ads professing to assist individuals trying to leave Islam; they’ll continue to run through the middle of next week. These are messages of hate masquerading as messages of help – and […]
Video: Keith Olbermann Slams Racist NY Anti-Mosque Protesters
But our winner: Rupert Murdoch. His “New York Post” has been beating the drum of race hatred here in New York. A columnist inspired a protest of a Muslim county center in lower Manhattan which the newspaper has incorrectly described called the “ground zero mosque.” Well, Rupert got what he wanted, 500 protesters showed up […]
Report: U.S. Cluster Bombs Killed 35 Civilians in Yemen
Amnesty International has released images of a US-manufactured cruise missile that carried cluster munitions, apparently taken following an attack on an alleged al-Qa’ida training camp in Yemen that killed 41 local residents, including 14 women and 21 children. The 17 December 2009 attack on the community of al-Ma’jalah in the Abyan area in the south […]
U.S. Medical Staff Experimented on Terror Suspects: Report
WASHINGTON — Medical personnel apparently experimented on terror detainees during CIA-led torture after the September 11 attacks, aiming to improve interrogation techniques, a human rights group said Monday. Physicians for Human Rights said it obtained public records showing health professionals worked under the supervision of the Central Intelligence Agency during interrogations of “war on terror” […]
CAIR: Lobbying Groups Pressure Lawmakers on Gaza Flotilla
Israel’s commando raid of a Gaza aid flotilla has sparked a surge of lobbying here in Washington.Despite the congressional recess, groups from across the spectrum on the Middle East peace process went into action once news broke last Monday that nine activists died in a skirmish with the Israeli military. Advocates have been talking to […]
CAIR Urges US to Help End Gaza Blockade
WASHINGTON: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Friday offered what it called a “mixed” review of President Obama’s outreach to the Muslim world one year after his historic speech in Cairo.At a news conference in Washington, CAIR issued a statement analyzing the Obama administration’s actions in the past year and how those actions matched […]
CAIR: One Year After Cairo Speech Obama’s Outreach ‘Lacking’
WASHINGTON // On the one-year anniversary of Barack Obama’s Cairo speech, several prominent Muslim-American groups offered their “mixed reviews” of the president’s outreach to the Muslim world.Coming together for a joint press conference in Washington, representatives from the groups applauded the president for setting a new “tone” in government’s relationship with Muslims, marking a vast […]