CAIR Asks Penn. College to Repudiate Extremist Views of Anti-Muslim Speaker
(PHILADELPHIA, PA, 1/9/14) – The Philadelphia chapter of the Council…
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Legal Updates
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Announcing Our Eighth Annual Banquet
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The Future of the Muslim Community is in Your Hands
So establish regular Prayer and give regular Charity; and obey…
Is this kosher?
"No one can predict how people react to suffering or the knowledge of suffering," he said. "So some Jews who came out of World War II and their children understand the Holocaust as meaning that everyone in the world was and will continue to hate the Jews." He added: "Being called a Jewish Nazi-lover is not the nicest thing. But it speaks more about the intolerance of those making the charges than it does about CAIR."
WE MOURN THE LOSS OF NELSON MANDELA
The Staff and Executive Committee of CAIR-Philadelphia joins the world…
The “Right to Counsel” and the American Muslim Community
Last week, CAIR-Philadelphia Legal Director Amara Chaudhry-Kravitz served as the…
Muslim Group’s New Philly Leader: Award-Winning Filmmaker, Interfaith Activist, and Yes, a Jew
Talk to Jacob Bender for five minutes and you’ll get a sense that if bridges can be built between Muslims and other faith groups, he’s certainly the guy for the job. In October, the award-winning documentary filmmaker and interfaith activist was tapped to head the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). His appointment to the Muslim advocacy group, which protects civil liberties of Muslim Americans and aims to increase public understanding of Islam, might have passed under the radar had his own religious faith — Judaism — not become the focus of his new gig.
