Tag: advocacy
Number of Incidents Targeting U.S. Mosques in 2015 Highest Ever Recorded
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/17/15) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released a preliminary report...
‘Face of Moderate Islam’ quits job
Yasin Elforkani, spokesperson for Contactbody Muslims and Government ( and known as the ‘face of moderate Islam in the Netherlands’ is quitting his job...
Sisters in Islam co-founder gets France’s highest award
March 7, 2014
Advocacy group Sisters in Islam (SIS) co-founder Zainah Anwar, from Malaysia, who will be conferred the French government's highest award, the Legion...
U.S. to Expand Rules Limiting Use of Profiling by Federal Agents
January 16, 2014
The Justice Department will significantly expand its definition of racial profiling to prohibit federal agents from considering religion, national origin, gender and...
