• Video: CAIR Weekly News Update
• CAIR: Faiza Ali Uses Faith to Unite Religious Coalitions (NYT)
  Such events propelled Ms. Ali into involvement with the Muslim Students Association and then a full-time job with [CAIR]. There, she put in 70-hour weeks dealing with controversies including the so-called "ground zero mosque," which inspired a national landslide of anti-Muslim speech.
  • Minnesota Mosque Sign Vandalized
• KC Muslim Wins $5 Million from AT&T Over Discrimination
  On Thursday, a jury. . .ordered AT&T to pay $120,000 in actual damages and $5 million in punitive damages for discrimination against Susann Bashir, a Kansas City woman who converted from Christianity to Islam.
• Video: Ga. GOP Leader, Afghan Refugee Sues for Being Called a Terrorist
  A Republican activist and Afghan refugee is suing members of her own party, claiming she was accused of being a terrorist.
  • CAIR: Get to Know a Muslim at Wash. State Islamophobia Conference
    [CAIR] has had several alarming reports of Islamaphobic incidences in a number of Washington counties.
• CAIR: US Charges Yonas Fikre, American Who Claimed Torture, With Conspiracy
  Gadeir Abbas, a lawyer with [CAIR] who has been working with Fikre, told Mother Jones on Wednesday that the federal charges were retaliation for Fikre's refusal to cooperate with the FBI. "It is disappointing but not surprising that the FBI is retaliating against Yonas by filing specious charges against him after they promised to make his life difficult after he refused to become their informant," Abbas wrote in an email. "While FBI agents lied to Yonas about many things, in this case, it seems that they have kept their word."
  • Oregon Judge Dismisses Suit by Muslims on No-Fly List (AP)