Following are descriptions of some of our current legal cases: CAIR-Philadelphia successfully represented a woman who wanted to wear an ankle-length skirt as part of her uniform as an employee of the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA). Initially, the PPA refused…
Jacob Bender on The Nick Taliaferro Show WURD, Sept. 24 — Jacob Bender on The Dom Giordano Show WPHT, Sept. 22 – Listen Below: — Jacob Bender in The Delaware News Journal/Delaware Online
Yesterday, at a Donald Trump campaign event in Rochester, New Hampshire, a man wearing a “Trump for President” t-shirt made the following statements when called upon by the billionaire candidate: “We have a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims.” “You know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American.” “Anyway, they have training camps growing where they want to kill us.” “When can we get rid of them?”
Jacob Bender, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations here in Philadelphia, attributes Mohamed’s arrest to fear. “CAIR specifically and the Muslim community in general see this as a glaring example of Islamphobia, xenophobia, and anti-Muslim hysteria which has…
Islamic Heritage Month is an annual month-long series of FREE educational public programs commemorating Islamic heritage, culture, and civilization during the month of October. Programs will be hosted at Masjidullah-The Center for Human Excellence and CAIR-Philadelphia, featuring a wide variety…
I was on vacation last week. My wife, daughter, and I spent the time in a beachfront hotel in Montauk, a lovely little village at the tip of Long Island. Vacations should be a welcome relief from the tensions of the world, but this year, the world found a way to make its pain known through the ubiquitous electronic devices that litter our contemporary environment.
INTRODUCTION CAIR-Pennsylvania is organizing the “First Annual Muslim Capitol Day” (MCD) in Harrisburg on Tuesday, October 20, 2015. MCD will bring dozens of Muslim leaders, community members, and students from around the state to Harrisburg to meet with state senators…
Yesterday in Istanbul, Turkey, an unprecedented Islamic Climate Change Declaration was released, presenting the moral case, based on Islamic teachings, for Muslims and all people to take urgent climate action. The Declaration calls for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels,…
I write about this, not only because it is the 70th Anniversary of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings, but also because I believe the world continues to exist under the shadow of The Bomb. One Muslim nation, Pakistan, already has The Bomb, and the situation along the border with India remains extremely tense.
