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• Alabama BOE Approves Textbooks Critics Charged Were Pro-Islam
  
  • Alabama Board OKs Textbooks After Complaints They Favored Islam (AP)
    Larry Houck, the founder of Act for America's Birmingham chapter, wrote in a letter to the school board. He said the books "proselytize for Islam." The president of the Birmingham Islamic Society, Ashfaq Taufique, said those objections were unfounded. He said a multi-faith coalition that included Christians had supported recommending the textbooks.
  • Education Board Approves Alleged Pro-Islamic Social Studies Textbooks
  • CAIR Islamophobia Backgrounder: ACT! for America and 'Brigitte Gabriel'
    
• CAIR-Sacramento: California Watches Bad Drought Grow Worse (NY Times)
  Clergy of all faiths have been exhorting the faithful to pray for precipitation. ''May God open the heavens, and let his mercy rain down upon our fields and mountains,'' Bishop Jaime Soto, the state's Roman Catholic conference president, said last week. The Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations followed suit by announcing that area mosques would offer the traditional rain prayer, Salatul Istisqa.
  • CAIR: Islamic Center of San Gabriel Valley to Pray for Rain
    The Council on American-Islamic Relations asked other denominations and creeds to join them in prayer during services this weekend.
    
• CAIR: Justice Department Pushes to End Religious Profiling (Wash. Times)
  "Good law enforcement requires good leads, not dragnets that catch law abiding Americans who are simply living their lives," Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the Associated Press.
  • CAIR: Selective Finger-Pointing Unfair to Muslims
  • More Charges in New York Anti-Muslim 'Death Ray' Case
    Crawford and Eric Feight have been jailed since their arrest in June on charges they assembled a mobile X-ray device meant to be used in the greater Albany area to sicken Muslims and enemies of Israel. 
    
• New Petition: Recognize Muslim Holidays Throughout the School Year
  
• CAIR: Fla. Writer Slams Anti-Islam Blogger Pamela Geller
  The anti-Islam AFDI is the handiwork of Pamela Geller, whose organization is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. 
  • Islamophobia Watch: Quebec Anti-Hijab Charter Witness Relates Mosque Experience 
    She described how those coming to pray would kneel on a large carpet inside the mosque. "I asked, 'What's going on here?'" she said. "There were men on the ground on all fours."
    
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