CAIR: Rep. Myrick, Muslims Defend, Debate in Testy Town Hall
CHARLOTTE — In a testy two-hour town hall meeting, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick argued Thursday night that the threat of homegrown Islamist terrorism is real and defended herself against charges by local Muslims that she was spreading fear about their religion. Using charts, maps, handouts and even a video slamming a Charlotte TV station, the […]
Abercrombie & Fitch Draws EEOC Complaint for Banning Hijab
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging racial discrimination by Abercrombie & Fitch Stores Inc. after a manager fired a Muslim employee who refused to remove her hijab, or head scarf.The complaint came five months after the EEOC filed suit against the clothing retailer over […]
CAIR: Abercrombie Hates Your Hijab (Salon.com)
Hijabs are sooo not hot this season — or, like, ever — if you ask Abercrombie and Fitch. A 19-year-old Muslim employee at one of the company’s Hollister stores in Northern California learned that the hard way: losing her job. But now the Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed an official complaint on her behalf […]
CAIR: Calif. Muslim Fired for Wearing Head Scarf (AOL News)
A 19-year-old woman says she lost her job at a popular clothing store after refusing to remove her Muslim head scarf.When Hani Khan, who was born in New York and is of Indian and Pakistani descent, interviewed for a job at a Hollister store at a mall in Hillsborough, Calif., she was wearing a traditional […]
Video: Threats, Support For Fired Muslim Woman (CBS)
A 19-year-old woman who said she was fired from a San Mateo store for wearing a headscarf has received threatening notes, along with some support.Watch the video here.
CAIR-TX: Defining Terrorism (Dallas Morning News)
In the wake of pilot Joseph Stack’s attack, onlookers expressed relief that it was not an incident of Islamist terrorism.If Stack’s attack fits the four-pronged criteria of terrorism — a criminal act against a civilian population with intent to cause fear, death, or injury, and as a means to influence government and/or politics — but […]
CAIR-LA: Even Rude, Unpopular Speech is Worth Defending (OC Reg)
[Ayloush is executive director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Greater Los Angeles Area. Lafferty is Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles.]Eleven students heckled Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren at different intervals at a UC Irvine event recently and set off a debate on what constitutes free speech and when it should be protected.The […]
CAIR-MI: Security Breach Shows Why Profiling Does Not Work
Kaylan Policherla had no ticket or baggage when he walked up to a passenger security gate Monday morning at Detroit Metro Airport — and just kept going. “He just walked into the airport, past the individual who checks your boarding pass and ID and then walked through the passenger screening checkpoint without stopping,” said airport […]
CAIR-LA: Muslim Station Receives ‘Avalanche of Anti-Islam Comments’
The first English-only Muslim radio station of its kind in the Western world plans to devote an entire show Wednesday to address what the owner calls an “avalanche of anti-Islam comments” in reaction to an OCRegister.com story about the station’s Irvine debut.“We didn’t expect so much negative comments…,” the station’s owner Nour Matar said. “We […]
MI: County Won’t Release Imam’s Autopsy Report
Wayne County has refused to release the autopsy report of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the Muslim leader from Detroit killed in a shootout with FBI agents seeking to arrest him. The county denied on Wednesday a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Free Press that had asked for a copy of the autopsy report […]