• CAIR-CT: Include Muslims in Prayers for Government MeetingsMongi Dhaouadi, executive director of the Connecticut chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, said he did not object if city council prayers are predominantly Christian. "We do not have an issue with starting meetings with prayer, as long as it's inclusive and not divisive," Dhaouadi said. "If there are Muslims in your community, Muslims should be included in the rotation."
  
  • Abdi Warsame Becomes First African-Born Minneapolis City Council Member 
  • ME: First African-Born Muslim Elected to Portland School Board
• Video: Fox's 'The Kelly File' Quotes CAIR-FL on Anti-Islam Textbook Protest
  
  • CAIR-FL: Florida Parents Protest Textbook with Chapter About Islam
    "It is displaying an alarming level of intolerance and brazen disregard of minority religions ... We find their actions un-American and against every core principal that makes this country so great," said CAIR-FL Executive Director Hassan Shibly.
  • Video: CAIR-FL Calls Anti-Islam Textbook Protest 'Un-American'
  • Video: CAIR-FL, High School Students Support Teaching About Islam
• CAIR-OK: Counterterrorism Caucus Spreads Prejudice (OK Gazette)
  It is time that we, as Oklahomans, hold our representatives accountable for spreading fear and hatred. If we allow a legislative caucus to continue to spread prejudice throughout our state, then we have failed in holding them to their responsibility of representing all the people of Oklahoma.
• CAIR-St. Louis: Groundbreaking Ceremony on Islamic Center for Nation's Largest Bosnian Community 
  
  • Video: CAIR-Ohio Rep Gives University Lecture on Being Muslim in America
  • CAIR-MI Welcomes Renovation of Oakland University Reflection Room
  • Nonprofit Profile: CAIR-MN (Star Tribune)
  • Video: CAIR-Philadelphia Director Interviewed on Al Jazeera Arabic
• Muslim Community Sees Increase in Latinos Converting to Islam (Tucson Sentinel)
  Ahmad Shqeirat, the center's imam, or prayer leader, said that over the past few years most of the converts at his mosque have come from the Latino community ... Shqeirat said Latino converts find similarities between Islam and the culture in which they grew up. Spanish is filled with Arabic vocabulary, he noted.