• CAIR Exclusive: Docs reveal feds may have attended Va. anti-Muslim training
  An email Guandolo sent on February 17, 2014 stated: "Included in the training are: Several from Fairfax County PD, the [redacted] from the [redacted] of [redacted] and two detectives, Albemarle County deputy, VA state Police, Arlington County and a couple from the military."
  
  If Department of Defense representatives are being paid and receiving training credits to participate in biased and inaccurate anti-Islam trainings, it is at least violating the spirit of the 2012 order.
  
• Fla. University to Host Islamophobe Linked to Massacre Militia
  More detailed objections to [Walid] Phares came from publications like The New Republic and especially, Mother Jones, which reported that Phares had been "a high ranking political official in a sectarian religious militia responsible for massacres during Lebanon's brutal, 15-year civil war."
  • Background: CAIR Asks Romney to Drop Walid Phares Mideast Advisor (Daily Beast)
    [CAIR] sent a letter to the Romney campaign late Tuesday calling for the ouster of the candidate's recently appointed foreign-policy adviser, Walid Phares. In the letter, CAIR refers to Phares as "an associate to war crimes" and a "conspiracy theorist," citing ties to a violent anti-Muslim militia.
  • The Right-Wing Lebanese Christian Advising Romney on the Middle East
    Phares has reportedly declared that Lebanese Christians were ethnically distinct from Arabs, and during the Civil War he "lectured militiamen, telling them they were part of a civilizational holy war," according to an October investigative report by the U.S. magazine Mother Jones.
  • Top Romney Adviser Tied to Militia That Massacred (Mother Jones)
    Régina Sneifer, who served in the Fifth Bureau in 1981 at the age of 18, remembers attending lectures where Phares told Christian militiamen that they were the vanguard of a war between the West and Islam. 
    
• CAIR-Chicago Launches 2014 Voter Guide
  Primary Elections are on March 18.
  
• CAIR: Anti-Boycott Bills Threatening Academic Freedom Spread to Illinois
  This action taken by the ASA has led to an avalanche of bills at the national and state level that threaten public universities with the loss of funds when their faculty support boycott activity of any kind. The response of faculty, students, and civil rights organizations like CAIR to this threat to academic freedom has been equally strong.
  • CAIR: Help Defeat New Anti-Free Speech Resolution in Maryland
    
• Video: Is Someone Spying on Florida Muslim Students?
  
• CA: Shifa Clinic Aims to Overcome Linguistic, Cultural Barriers
  Shifa is a nonprofit clinic and all patients are seen free of charge. Most of the clinic's funds come from fundraisers and donations by mosques.
  • Erasing Hate: Volunteers Step Up to Remove W. Va. Mosque Graffiti
    
• Anti-Muslim Bigots Freak Out When Texas TV Station Warns of Oncoming 'Haboob' 
  

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