CAIR Op-Ed: Bar ‘Flying While Muslim’ Profiling (USA Today)
The recent settlement in the case of the six imams, or Islamic religious leaders, who said their rights were violated in 2006 when they were removed from a US Airways flight in Minnesota should not prevent anyone from acting on legitimate security concerns. But reports based solely on anti-Muslim or anti-Arab bias and hysteria should […]
MPAC: Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory of the Week
This week, four Republican members of Congress, Rep. Sue Myrick, Rep. John Shadegg, Rep. Paul Broun, and Rep. Trent Franks, called on the U.S. House of Representatives’ Sergeant-at-Arms to investigate a national Muslim American civil rights organization, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), for encouraging young Muslim Americans to intern in Congressional offices. By […]
ISNA: GOP Leaders Should Reject Efforts to Smear Muslims
(Washington, DC – October 17, 2009) The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is shocked that four Republican Congressmen found it fit to make serious allegations against a Muslim advocacy group by borrowing passages from a book authored by two well known Islamophobes, and that some of them went out of their way to promote […]
Video: CAIR Rep Discusses ‘Manchurian Interns’ on CNN
Video: Round 2 of Rachel Maddow Exposes Anti-Islam Extremists in Congress
Video: Rachel Maddow Exposes Anti-Islam Extremists in Congress
Audio: CAIR Rep Receives Hate Call During Radio Interview
Four Republican Congress members have accused the Council on American Islamic Relations of infiltrating Capitol Hill. They say CAIR is placing interns in Congressional offices to spy on members. Some Muslims worry the allegations are stirring up a new wave of fear and intolerance. Tanya Snyder reports. Click here to listen.
Right-Wing Reps Call Muslims ‘Spies’ in Congress
Four Republican lawmakers have accused the most prominent Islamic advocacy group in Washington of trying to plant “spies” as interns on Capitol Hill. The claim was quickly denounced as “racist” and “insidious” by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and the effort appears to have little support from GOP leaders. In an unusual announcement this morning, […]
Muslims Hold 9/11 Vigil at White House
…Just before sundown, about 40 people gathered in Lafayette Square for a prayer vigil to remember the victims and survivors and to seek peaceful resolution of world divisions. “True justice can be achieved without violence,” said Ann Mulderry, whose son Stephen was killed in the South Tower. “I want to believe you can find peace […]
Student Held 5 Hours Over Arabic Flash Cards
Eight years after 9/11, we’re used to changes in our routines. We show ID to get into office buildings, and take off our shoes at airports. But should a college student flying back to school be handcuffed and held for five hours because he has Arabic flash cards in his backpack? That’s the way Nick […]