www.explorethequran.org Almost 14,000 people have requested free copies of the Quran since the launch of CAIR's "Explore the Quran" campaign on May 17. Residents of California top the list of those asking for Qurans, with 10 percent of total requests.

http://www.muslims-care.org Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., is looking for volunteers each Wednesday and Thursday of the week for a food bank program.

The Truth About Radical Islam Friday, June 10, 2005 To the editor: Some commentators want to show how tolerant and forward-looking they are by describing religious America as "churches, synagogues and mosques."

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/1/05) - CAIR today launched an initiative, called “Muslims Care,” designed to promote volunteerism in the American Muslim community.

(Washington, DC, 5/18/2005) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called for people of conscience to support a resolution that "recognizes that the Qur'an as any other holy book of any religion, should be treated with dignity and respect."

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/11/05) - CAIR is urging American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact the White House in support of a public investigation into reports that interrogators at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay flushed a Quran down a toilet.

Ann Coulter, Time Magazine, 4/25/05 http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050425/story.html Ann Coulter: "Liberals are about to become the last people to figure out that Arabs lie."

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/6/05) - CAIR is urging members of the American Muslim community and other people of conscience to contact their elected representatives and ask that they co-sponsor the recently introduced 'Security and Freedom Enhancement (SAFE) Act," designed to repeal unconstitutional sections of the original USA PATRIOT Act.

Last week, World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali launched Bridges TV, the first 24-hour English Language American-Muslim Television Channel, in Chicagoland on WOW! Cable. So far, Comcast Cable, Chicagoland?s top cable provider, is not offering Bridges TV for a perceived lack of public support for this type of programming.

Contact Dell to request that they rehire the Muslim workers pending a mutually-agreeable resolution of the dispute.

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/3/05) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Pentagon to discipline a top general who earlier this week said it is "fun to shoot some people."

(WASHINGTON, DC - 2/3/05) - CAIR is urging all persons of conscience to voice their concern over the recently-introduced REAL ID Act. House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner's (R-WI) bill is composed of provisions that were deemed too controversial and stripped from last year's intelligence reform bill.

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/2/05) - CAIR today called on American Muslims and other people of conscience to thank Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for their principled stance against the use of torture in U.S. detention centers around the world.

1. Support Eid-ul-Adha/Hajj Ads. Your support is necessary for this important project. CAIR is asking the Muslim community to sponsor the Eid-ul-Adha ads. Each ad will cost $250, on average, to broadcast.

1. Please call each of your local Fox television stations and ask to speak to the person who handles public service announcements and/or programming. That person is usually, but not always, the "Public Service Director."

On Friday, January 14, CNN's Paula Zahn Now will air a segment on American Muslims' responses to a Cornell University study indicating that 44 percent of Americans were in favor of curbing their civil rights. The program airs at 8 p.m. EST.

The first new episode this season of Fox's 24 has yet to hit the screen and already the network has offended a Muslim group.

1. Any returning pilgrims who believe their constitutional rights have been violated should call CAIR's "Hajji Hotline" at 1-800-784-7526. During business hours, the hotline number rolls over to CAIR's Washington, D.C., switchboard. After hours during the Hajj, a recording will give cell phone numbers for CAIR civil rights staff and the latest information on the legal rights of U.S. citizens at border crossings.

A recent letter in response to mine intrigued me. The writer asked how we should treat our local Muslim population given that I stated we are in World War III with most of them.

And we leave you with a belated and un-Christmasy Christmas thought given to us by none other than that the liberal-blasting, knock-you-off-your-seat Ann Coulter, as posted on her Web site last week.