CAIR-NY: Closing Schools for Two Muslim Holidays?
The City Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on the Department of Education to incorporate two major Muslim holidays into the city school calendar. The resolution, which passed 50 to 1, bears no legal weight; it is simply a formal request that the DOE schedule school holidays for Eid al-Fitr, which celebrates the end of […]
Video: Are Muslim’s Being Targeted at Dayton Airport?
Click here to watch the video. Are Muslim’s being targeted at Dayton International Airport? That’s the question that launched a recent investigation.On Wednesday a Muslim woman by the name of Constance told Dayton’s News Source, during a lay over back in June she was humiliated by Airport Transportation security Administration Officers. Constance was on a […]
IL: Muslims Hope for New Era of Understanding
It was an early morning for Driss El Akrich. But armed with Moroccan green tea and joined by his wife, Amina, in front of a television set, it was a moment he had been eagerly anticipating. President Barack Obama was in Cairo last month, giving a major speech to the Muslim world. The speech reverberated […]
CAIR-OH: Muslim Woman Harassed at Dayton Airport
Federal transportation security officers subjected a Muslim woman to a humiliating search as she was traveling through Dayton International Airport, a Muslim advocacy organization said Wednesday, July 22. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it mailed letters of complaint on Monday to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights […]
CAIR-OH Speaks Out against Hate-Crime Sentence
Activists are saying the punishment wasn’t strict enough in a Knox County case in which a teenage boy was convicted of a hate crime. But what happened between two 17-year-olds in a parking lot in downtown Mount Vernon in May 2008 is murky.Dale Klein, now 18, pleaded no contest to ethnic intimidation in June in […]
Muslim Woman Harassed at Dayton Airport, Group Says
Federal transportation security officers subjected a Muslim woman to a humiliating search as she was traveling through Dayton International Airport, a Muslim advocacy organization said Wednesday, July 22.The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it mailed letters of complaint on Monday to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights office, […]
CAIR-MN: Walmart rehires fired Muslim worker
A major retail chain has rehired a fired Muslim employee in the Twin Cities and is now accommodating his right to pray in the workplace, an Islamic civil rights organization in Minnesota is reporting.The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Monday that Walmart agreed to the accommodation after CAIR-MN intervened on behalf […]
CA: U.S. Attorney General Engages Muslim Youth
In a quiet event during an otherwise well-publicized visit to Los Angeles this week, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. reached out to local Muslim American youths, calling on them to work with the government to fight violent extremism and pledging that the Justice Department would reinvigorate enforcement of civil rights and work to advance […]
CAIR-Seattle: Muslim Groups Host Candidate Forum
After awhile it all sounds the same.After you’ve been to a few candidate forums, everything starts to sound the same. In some cases, that’s because it is. At a mayoral forum, it’s a guarantee that in Jan Drago’s opening statement she’ll say something about hitting the “reset button” and James Donaldson will stand tall and […]
Video: CAIR-Chicago Rep Discusses Controversial Muslim Conference
CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab comments on a conference by a controversial Muslim group in Chicago, and on civil rights issues, political empowerment, media monitoring, and community outreach. Click here to watch the video.