CAIR-Cincinnati Video: ‘America is My Country’
CAIR-Cincinnati Executive Director Karen Dabdoub discusses the Ohio Muslim community’s reaction to the Fort Hood shooting spree.
Video: CAIR Rep Discusses Fort Hood Shootings with Roland Martin
CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper discusses the Fort Hood shooting spree on TV One’s Washington Watch with Roland Martin.
NYU Students Rebut ‘Going Muslim’ Column
NYU’s United Muslims Association held a teach-in at the Kimmel Center yesterday afternoon to rebut “Going Muslim,” a controversial column published on Forbes.com last week by Stern professor Tunku Varadarajan. (More)
Palin on Muslim Profiling: ‘I’m All For It’
On Hannity last night, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she’s “all for” profiling Muslims if it saves “innocent American lives.” (More)
CAIR-Chicago: Woman Charged with Anti-Muslim Hate Crime
A southwest suburban woman has been charged with a hate crime for an alleged attack on a Muslim woman at a grocery earlier this month. Amal Abusumayah was paying for groceries at the Jewel store at 17117 S. Harlem Ave. in Tinley Park on Nov. 7 when she felt a sharp tug on her headscarf. […]
Wash Post: VA Gov-Elect Must Reassure Muslims
Reliable numbers are hard to come by, but at a very conservative guess there are tens of thousands of Muslims living in Virginia. Now one of the top financial donors to Robert F. McDonnell, the state’s governor-elect, has smeared them all by saying that their faith is not a religion at all, but rather a […]
Rep. Connolly Decries Robertson’s ‘Hateful Rhetoric’
FAIRFAX – Congressman Gerry Connolly has called on Pat Robertson to apologize for his statement that Islam is “not a religion” but a “violent political system.” In a statement issued Wednesday, Connolly said Robertson caused substantial hurt and damage for the Muslim community in Northern Virginia and across the Commonwealth in the week since he […]
CAIR: VA Gov-Elect Fails to Repudiate Islam-Basher
Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell continues to face calls for him to publicly repudiate donor and ally Pat Robertson today, even after a statement issued Tuesday evening in which his spokesman commented generally about the importance of the Muslim community to Virginia. A spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Wednesday that McDonnell’s comment “a good […]
CAIR: Moves to Seize Mosques Spark Outrage (US News)
Word of the government’s steps to seize mosques sent chills through the American Muslim community, already fearful of reprisals following the recent shootings at Fort Hood, allegedly by a Muslim gunman. “The timing couldn’t be worse,” said Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Yesterday, Hooper interrupted an evening of media […]
MD: Muslims ‘Shocked’ by Move to Seize Islamic Center
County residents who attend services at the Islamic Education Center in Potomac are worried their mosque could be shut down after federal prosecutors started a court process seeking forfeiture of the center’s property, which is owned by the New York-based Alavi Foundation, which is alleged to have ties to the Iranian government. Worshippers at the […]