• CAIR: Anti-Islam Tea Party Speaker to Appear at Ohio High School
  Usama Dakdok, whose presentation about Islam sparked a controversy here last year, will speak at 7 p.m. Dec. 10 at Mansfield Senior High School auditorium. . .The lawsuit received state and national media attention. Outside groups weighed in on both sides of the issue, including the American Civil Liberties Union in support of the tea party group and the Council on American-Islamic Relations in support of the school district.
  • Backgrounder: CAIR Asks School to Drop Anti-Islam Tea Party Speaker
  • Backgrounder: Ohio School Board Cancels Anti-Islam Tea Party Event
• CAIR: Muslim N.J. Judge Accused of Imposing Sharia law on Family Court
  Gadeir Abbas, staff attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, called Eden's statement "an anti-Muslim rant that relies on the same type of slanders that have been used in the past to attack Catholics and Jews."
  • MI: Islamic Prayer Banned From Vet Service
    A community concert planned as part of a Veterans Day celebration caused deep divisions when an Islamic prayer that was scheduled to be sung by a joint choir was deleted at the last moment.
• CAIR-MI: Paralyzed Arab American Put on 'No Fly List' Without Explanation
  Dawud Walid, executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations of Michigan says the group is urging the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to take action in order to stop the racial profiling of minorities and discriminatory practices brought against them in recent years. 
  • CAIR: US Muslims Petition Against No-Fly List
  • CAIR-CT: Forum Taps Local Tales of Racial Profiling
• CAIR: Civil Society and Individual Rights after 9/11
  After September 11. . .all three branches were often compromised in their commitments to liberty, equality, dignity, fair process, and the "rule of law." By contrast, civil society groups dedicated to constitutional and rule-of-law values, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Bar Association, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Constitution Project, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and the Council on American Islamic Relations, consistently defended constitutional and human rights.
• CAIR-OK: Art in the Heartland Celebrates Talent of Okla. Muslims
• CAIR: Muslims Urge Obama to Restore Gaza Peace
  • Photo: A Palestinian Man Reacts Next to His Children's Bodies
• TN: Muslim Collects 7,500 Condolences to Libyan Ambassador's Family

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