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Help Muslim Anti-Terror Message Air On Local TV Stations
( WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/14/05 ) - CAIR is calling on Muslim community leaders and activists nationwide to urge local television stations to air a CAIR public service announcement (PSA) released today that is designed to highlight Islam's rejection of anyone who carries out terror attacks such as those witnessed recently in London.
Incitement Watch: Rush Says Quran Isn't Cool
Here's a story from the News & Record. This is just mind-boggling. Greensboro, North Carolina. "The decision by local court officials to deny the use of the Quran for oaths has garnered national media attention and the scrutiny of a Washington-based Islamic civil rights group.
CAIR: Request or Sponsor a Free Quran
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.
Muslims Care: Volunteers Needed for VA Food Bank
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.
Incitement Watch: Islam Doesn't Belong in America
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."
CAIR Launches Muslim Volunteerism Campaign
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/1/05) - CAIR today launched an initiative, called “Muslims Care,” designed to promote volunteerism in the American Muslim community.
Support H. Res. Condemning Religious Bigotry
(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."
CAIR Seeks Probe of Gitmo Quran ‘Desecration’
(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.
Incitement Watch: Ann Coulter Says ‘Arabs Lie'
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."
Revise Patriot Act with SAFE Act
(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.
Ask Comcast to Add Bridges TV to Lineup
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.
DELL Fires 30 Muslims Over Maghrib Prayer
Contact Dell to request that they rehire the Muslim workers pending a mutually-agreeable resolution of the dispute.
Muslims Call for Pentagon Action Over General's Remarks
(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."
Voice Your Concern Over 'Real Id Act'
(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.
Thank Sens. Kennedy, Feinstein for Rejecting Torture
(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.
Southern California Muslims Launch Eid Radio Ads
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.
Help Get CAIR's PSA on Local Fox Stations
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."
Watch CNN Segment on American Attitudes Toward Muslims
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.