Despite the comparative lack of attention, the session chaired by Durbin (D-Ill.) made history as the first congressional hearing on the civil rights of American Muslims. About 50 people waited in line for the door of 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building to open, including a half-dozen high school students who had been sleeping on the…
Le Monde – September 30, 2010 This short article profiles the Drancy imam, Hassen Chalghoumi, now often considered an icon of “moderate Islam” in France. Chalghoumi has received a great deal of attention for taking a public position against full-face coverings in France and for a law that would ban them. This position has meant…
The trial against a Muslim imam, his wife, and his daughter in Cunit (in the province of Tarragona) has begun. Fatima Ghailan, a cultural mediator in the town, sued the imam and his family. Ghailan accused them of harassment, threats, libel, and slander.
A federal panel said Monday that it believed Greeley meatpacker JBS Swift violated the civil rights of more than 100 Somali Muslims it fired last year after a walkout over religious differences at the height of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest time. The determination by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission comes exactly a year after hundreds…
Jury awards correctional officer $200K for racial harassment at the workplace (CHICAGO, IL, 7/24/09) – The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) today announced a verdict in favor of an Arab-American correctional officer in a discrimination case litigated pro bono against the Cook County Sheriff’s Department by CAIR-Chicago Staff Attorney Kevin Vodak….
