The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, yesterday urged elected officials and media outlets not to engage in anti-Muslim tropes or misuse Islamic terms when commenting on the crisis in Afghanistan. CAIR…
Seventy-six years ago today, the Japanese city of Nagasaki was destroyed by a single American atomic bomb, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945.
In the second episode of Faithadelphia, Humna Rub continues the conversation on mental health in the Muslim community with psychiatrist Dr. Karriem Lateef Salaam, psychotherapist Huma Raja, and BCBA Durriya Shamsi. They discuss the impact of racism and colorism in our community effects the…
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Under a blistering sun, I joined nearly 100 activists and religious leaders from the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities who had gathered yesterday on the steps of the Montgomery County Court House to voice support for Sanaa Beaufort, an African American Muslim student at North Penn High School in Montgomery County.
(PHILADELPHIA, PA, 07/12/21) – CAIR-Philadelphia today decried the decision of Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele decision to charge Ms. Sanaa Beaufort, a Black Muslim student at North Penn High School. Ms. Beaufort was attacked by two students in…
CAIR-PA Delegates Take Part in Online 6th National Muslim Congressional Advocacy Week #MuslimHillDay CAIR-PA organized and joined virtual advocacy meetings with multiple Senators and Members of Congress from Pennsylvania and Delaware, bringing together Pennsylvania and Delaware Muslims who met virtually…
Join Mohammed Zubairu, President of CAIR-Philadelphia, and Dr. Asif Ilyas, Chair of EMGAGE-PA, for the inaugural episode of CAIRing & EMGAGEing. The two men share some of their own perspectives as Muslim Americans and introduce the concept of the program…
Slavery made this nation rich. At its height, slavery was a $3 billion-plus industry and a major engine of the U.S. economy. Industries throughout the states both supported, and were supported by, slavery. By 1850, 80% of American exports were the product of slave labor. The estimated value of enslaved people increased 500% between 1790 and 1860, from $200 million to around $3.059 billion.
