PRESS RELEASE: “The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded a unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that a Muslim inmate in Arkansas be permitted to grow a beard in accordance with his religious beliefs. That decision overturned a state prison policy banning beards. The…
The video of the Middle East Policy Council’s 70th Capitol Hill Conference is now available for on-demand streaming. Speakers: Paul Pillar Former National Intelligence Officer, National Intelligence Council; Professor, Georgetown University Scott McConnell Founding Editor, The American Conservative Jocelyne Cesari Co-director, SAIS Global Politics and Religion Initiative; Research Associate, Harvard University Nathaniel Kern President,…
THE PRESS RELEASE announcing complaints against Catholic University of America for alleged bias against Muslim and women students begins with a mention of criminal charges leveled against a bishop in Kansas City for withholding information about suspected child abuse. It’s an irrelevant cheap shot. But it’s a good tipoff to the lack of substance in…
