May 30, 2014 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said it has asked the Fox subsidiary FX Networks for a meeting to discuss community concerns about potential Islamophobic stereotyping in the upcoming series “Tyrant” due to air June 24. According to the network, “Tyrant tells the…
UB student’s beliefs call for a beard Muhamed McBryde has loved wrestling ever since he can remember, but when he had to choose between shaving his beard and competing for the University at Buffalo, the decision was easy. McBryde sat on the sidelines. The pre-med student believes shaving the beard would compromise his faith. He…
A Florida Islamic group is accusing some Republican Party lawmakers and local party organizations of fostering anti-Muslim sentiment. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, sent letters to almost every Republican Club or party extension in the state, asking the groups to stop bringing speakers who espouse anti-Islamic views. The letter said it represented…
April 9, 2014 The Maryland outreach office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations today welcomed news that anti-free speech legislation introduced in the Maryland General Assembly’s 2014 session failed to pass. H.B. 998 and S.B. 647 contained language that would have restricted student groups at Maryland’s public colleges and universities from supporting boycotts of…
April 15, 2014 The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today welcomed a decision by the New York Police Department (NYPD) to disband a special unit that conducted widespread warrantless surveillance of law-abiding Muslims. That surveillance was part of a comprehensive human mapping program that described and monitored Islamic institutions,…
