REGISTER TODAY FOR CAIR’S 15TH ANNUAL BANQUET - TOP http://www.cair.com/banquet/ ----- AUDIO: CAIR REP RECEIVES HATE CALL DURING RADIO INTERVIEW - TOP Accusations Against Muslim NGO Stir Fears of Intolerance Free Speech Radio, 10/19/09 Four Republican Congress members have accused the Council on American Islamic Relations of infiltrating Capitol Hill. They say CAIR is placing interns in Congressional offices to spy on members. Some Muslims worry the allegations are stirring up a new wave of fear and intolerance. Tanya Snyder reports. Click here to listen. ----- CAIR VIDEO: ROUND 2 OF RACHEL MADDOW EXPOSES ANTI-ISLAM EXTREMISTS IN CONGRESS - TOP Watch the Video: View Round 1: Rachel Maddow Exposes Anti-Islam Extremists in Congress SEE ALSO: CAIR REP DISCUSSES 'MANCHURIAN INTERNS' WITH CNN'S RICK SANCHEZ - TOP Watch the Video: (Sound is low. Boost your volume.) --- ISNA: GOP LEADERS SHOULD REJECT EFFORTS TO SMEAR MUSLIMS BY CONGRESSMEN - TOP ISNA, 10/17/09 (Washington, DC - October 17, 2009) The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is shocked that four Republican Congressmen found it fit to make serious allegations against a Muslim advocacy group by borrowing passages from a book authored by two well known Islamophobes, and that some of them went out of their way to promote an anti-Muslim book during a national news conference. US Representatives Trent Franks (AZ), Sue Myrick (NC), John Shadegg (AZ), and Paul Broun (GA) accused on Wednesday the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) of planting “spies” on Capitol Hill and called on federal officials to investigate the organization. While we believe it is the obligation of every American and every Congressman to ensure that national security is not harmed, this must be done without tarnishing the reputation of law abiding fellow Americans or smearing an entire religious community. We are particularly troubled that the four Congressmen took their clues from a book by two well known anti-Muslim writers, Dave Gaubatz and Paul Sperry. Sperry authored in 2005 an alarmist book that accused Muslim Americans of infiltrating Washington, and attacked Islam as a violent religion. Similarly, Gaubatz has in the past targeted Islam and Muslims, called Islam an "evil ideology," and worked for a racist group that sought to make "adherence to Islam" punishable by a 20-year prison term. (More) --- FINDLEY CALLS FOUL AS 4 LAWMAKERS CLAIM INTERNS ARE SPIES - TOP CODY BOZARTH, Journal-Courier, 10/17/09 Before settling down in Jacksonville, Paul Findley spent much of his 22 years in Congress campaigning for the rights of people of all religions and for policy changes in the Middle East. Events this week in Washington have him speaking out again. Four Republican representatives -- John Shadegg of Arizona, Paul Broun of Georgia, Trent Franks of Arizona and Sue Myrick of North Carolina — have formally asked for the investigation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a non-profit organization in Washington, citing what they say are terrorist ties. “As a Republican, I’m ashamed that Republicans made all this fuss,” Findley said Friday. “I don’t find anything in Islam that justifies these calls of terrorism. Half of the American people are misinformed about Islam and I’ve tried to correct those assumptions.” (More) --- FORMER EMPLOYER OF MUSLIM-BASHING AUTHOR CALLED FOR ‘WAR’ ON ISLAM - TOP Paul "Dave" Gaubatz, co-author of “Muslim Mafia,” is the former “Director of Intelligence and Counter-terrorism Studies” of the hate group Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE) and its associated Mapping Shari’a in America Project. The Mapping Shari’a in America Project says it is devoted to spying on mosques and other Islamic institutions in the United States. In explaining why he seeks to infiltrate mosques and Islamic institutions nationwide, Gaubatz wrote in a commentary on that group’s website: “…the real answer to Why is the fact that in this country, our government and its myriad of agencies and bureaucracies have determined that a priori Islam itself is NOT the evil ideology it in fact is…” (April 20, 2007) On its now-private website, SANE offered a policy proposal that would make it illegal to be a Muslim: “Whereas, adherence to Islam as a Muslim is prima facie evidence of an act in support of the overthrow of the US. [sic] Government through the abrogation, destruction, or violation of the US Constitution and the imposition of Shari’a on the American People...It shall be a felony punishable by 20 years in prison to knowingly act in furtherance of, or to support the, adherence to Islam.” [A SANE Act to Deal with the Islamic Threat to America’s National Existence (SADITANE)] SANE’s website once contained the following white supremacist language as part of its mission statement: “America is a unique people bound together through a commitment to America’s Judeo-Christian moral foundation and to an enduring faith and trust in G-d and in His Providence. America’s founding, and its greatness was neither accident nor staging ground for some better existence or world state. America was the handiwork of faithful Christians, mostly men, and almost entirely white, who ventured from Europe to create a nation in their image of a country existing as free men under G-d.” Other articles on the SANE website made racist statements such as: “There is a reason the founding fathers did not give women or black slaves the right to vote,” and "Race matters and affects your intelligence. Jews are the smartest white people around. Orientals smarter than Whites. Latinos next. Then Blacks.” Another SANE article stated: “Is there something unique about the Black American (or, at least the Black New Yorker) that leads him to murder so disproportionately and to most often kill and victimize his own? Do we see patterns of Black culture that arise out of Africa and the wanton murder of blacks by blacks there? Why have the colonized blacks of the African continent, after having acquired their freedom and independence, so willingly slaughtered their own and live in despicable disease and squalor despite a land of enormous riches while Indians of the Indian sub-continent have successfully moved from British rule to democracy and relative civility even in a country that still maintains social inequalities as a fact of their culture?” A 2007 commentary by the head of SANE, David Yerushalmi, called for a “war against Islam and all Muslim faithful.” SEE: War Manifesto: The War Against Islam By David Yerushalmi & SANE Staff Wed, January 10, 2007 …The following can be considered the SANE War Manifesto. On the so-called Global War on Terrorism, GWOT, we have been quite clear along with a few other resolute souls. This should be a WAR AGAINST ISLAM and all Muslim faithful. In particular, historical, traditional, and authoritative Shari’a, or the Islamic Way of Life, bound most tightly by Islamic law and jurisprudence, or fiqh, is the focus of the ideology which drives our enemy. People who don’t grasp that Islam is first and foremost a religious ideology built on a legal foundation or jurisprudence simply don’t understand Islam… The actual or physical enemy is any Muslim who adopts or accepts historical and traditional Shari’a as authoritative. This includes individuals, terrorist networks, clans, tribes, regimes, or states. One law and one Rule of Engagement: If you adopt Shari’a as your ideology, you constitute our enemy and you are in our cross-hairs. We of course will pick the most opportune time and place but you will be targeted. At a practical level, this means that Shari’a and Islamic law are immediately outlawed. Any Moslem in America who adopts historical and traditional Shari’a will be subject to deportation. Mosques which adhere to Islamic law will be shut down permanently. No self-described or practicing Muslim, irrespective of his or her declarations to the contrary, will be allowed to immigrate to this country. (More) ----- CAIR-OK JOINS INTERFAITH CALL FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM - TOP (OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 10/20/09) On Tuesday, October 20th, the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) will take part in a press conference with faith leaders at the state Capitol building in Oklahoma City to call for reform of health care in America. Representatives of 14 faith traditions will share positions in support of health care reform in America at a news conference organized by the Oklahoma Conference of Churches in Oklahoma City. WHAT: Faith Leaders Call for Reform of Health Care in America WHEN: 2 p.m., Tuesday, October 20 WHERE: State Capitol, Governor’s Blue Room, 2nd Floor, east end CONTACT: Joanne Kurklin, Executive Director, Oklahoma Conference of Churches. Phone: 405-525-2928. E-Mail: joanne.kurklin@okchurches.org. Rev. Dr. Rockford Johnson, President, Board of Directors, E-mail: okchurches@okchurches.org CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding. CONTACT: CAIR-OK Executive Director Razi Hashmi, 405-248-5853, E-Mail: rhashmi@cair.com; CAIR-OK Chair Michael Aziz Gipson, E-Mail: mgipson@cair.com; CAIR-OK Operations Coordinator Huda Abdul-Razzak, E-Mail: habdulrazzak@cair.com ----- CAIR-SAN DIEGO CO-SPONSORS EMPLOYEE, IMMIGRATION RIGHTS WORKSHOP - TOP (SAN DIEGO, CA, 10/20/09) - The San Diego office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) recently co-sponsored an Employee and Immigration Rights workshop with the Employee Rights Center at the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD). Employee Rights Center’s Director Peter Zschiesche and Assistant Director Alor Calderon were among the panelists who spoke at the workshop. CAIR-San Diego Public Relations Director Edgar Hopida also served as a panelist and moderator. This informative workshop consisted of a basic overview of the legal rights of both employer and employee and the kind of services that CAIR-San Diego and Employee Rights Center offer to the American Muslim community. The Employee Rights Center had recently announced a new service that assists individuals with green card and naturalization delays. There was also a question and answer session that allowed community members in the audience to address employment and immigration issues to the panelists. “Employment Rights Center’s partnership with CAIR-0San Diego in the matters of employment and immigration rights is a welcomed resource to the San Diego Muslim community,” said CAIR-San Diego Public Relations Director Edgar Hopida. According to last year’s CAIR Civil Rights Report, there was a 34 percent increase in employment discrimination in 2007. CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding. CONTACT: CAIR-San Diego Public Relations Director Edgar Hopida, 619-913-0719 or 858-278-4547, E-mail: ehopida@cair.com SEE ALSO: CAIR-MI: FLU FEARS AFFECT WORSHIP SERVICES - TOP BILL LAITNER, Detroit Free Press, 10/18/09 …With the potential for a flu epidemic in Michigan, health experts say that passing the communion cup, sharing Christian or Jewish bread, packing a mosque for Friday prayers and other cherished rituals can spread the bug… Dawud Walid, assistant imam at Masjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit and head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the threat of swine flu has made him more aware of keeping safe in public settings, such as mosques. Walid has preached to worshippers during Friday prayers -- the most popular weekly gathering for Muslims -- about the dangers of swine flu and how they should be aware of it. (More) ----- CAIR-CA: VANDALISM PROBE SOUGHT - TOP Ben Aguirre Jr., Oakland Tribune, 10/16/09 NEWARK — The Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is asking local and state officials for a hate-crime investigation into the vandalism of a Newark City Council candidate's home. Nadja Adolf, one of three candidates for two seats on the council, had her home egged Monday morning while she and her husband were not home, she said. (More) SEE ALSO: MAN APOLOGIZES FOR VANDALISM AT MOSQUE - TOP LINDSAY WISE, HOUSTON CHRONICLE Police have questioned a man who admits to writing derogatory remarks about Muslims on the walls of a mosque inside a southwest Houston cultural center, but no charges will be filed at the request of the center's leadership. (More)