(PHILADELPHIA, PA, 10/20/16) – Scores of Muslim community leaders from around Pennsylvania will be coming to Harrisburg on Tuesday, October 25, for the Second Annual “Muslim Capitol Day.” Participants in Muslim Capitol Day will have a private meeting with Governor…
I awoke yesterday morning to hear the news on the radio that Bob Dylan had been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. To many in the post-war baby boomer generation, I am sure this news was met with near-rapturous joy, as it was by me. Dylan’s words and music were the soundtrack for the whole tumultuous decade of the Sixties -- his words perfectly and ecstatically capturing the zeitgeist (“spirit of the age”) of sudden cultural and political change unfolding before our eyes.
by Ryan Houldin Civil Rights Attorney, CAIR-Philadelphia Our country has a history of condemning large groups of people, especially those groups deemed “un-American,” based on the acts of a few. The events of September 11, 2001, combined with our current political climate,…
As-Salamu Alaykum! This is a time of great urgency for the American Muslim community. Our community and our faith have become targets of hate in the current presidential campaign. Bigoted and unconstitutional schemes targeting Muslims continue to be proposed by…
(PHILADELPHIA, PA, 10/6/2016) – Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and social action organizations will gather on Saturday, October 8, 2016, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, for Philadelphia’s 10th Annual “Day of Dignity,” an interfaith effort to help the tens of thousands of…
The 5th meeting of the Delaware Valley Muslim Leadership Forum took place on Saturday, September 24, at Philadelphia Masjid. These meetings provide an opportunity for Muslim religious and community leaders to share their thoughts about the challenges and issues or…
Report by Rabiya Khan (CAIR-Philadelphia Advisory Board Member) Governor Tom Wolf and First Lady Francis Wolf made history when they hosted the first Eid-al-Adha dinner celebration at the Governor’s Mansion in Harrisburg on Thursday, September 15th, 2016. More than two…
The right of all American citizens to vote for president and other elected officials has taken us as a nation over 200 years after the founding of the United States to achieve. The story of American democracy is the story of the expansion of the right to vote to an ever greater part of the adult population. The wealthy white men who wrote the United States Constitution in Philadelphia during the sweltering summer of 1787 did not believe in universal suffrage: working class men and all women were excluded, while African slaves counted as only 3/5 of white people for census purposes.
CAIR-Philadelphia partner EMERGE USA (emerge-usa.org) is a grassroots civic engagement organization focusing on organizing and mobilizing American Muslim voters, developing accurate data on American Muslim voters, and developing future American Muslim political leaders. We are on the verge of a…
