The FBI, Apple, and American Muslims

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By Ryan Houldin CAIR-Philadelphia Staff Attorney For a large segment of the American population, the possibility of a terror attack on US soil by so-called “Muslim extremists,” is reason enough to suspend the constitutional rights of all Muslims living in…

Director’s Desk: Blood Libels, Trump, and How to Oppose Islamophobia

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My aunt was blind in one eye. When she was a child in Czarist Russia, anti-Semitic gangs rode through the Jewish village where she lived, burning and shooting. A sliver of glass went into her eye. The reason for this destruction: a local child had gone missing, and the Christian peasants were convinced that the Jews had murdered the child and used his blood in the making of matzot, the ritual bread we Jews eat during the holiday of Passover.

“Thank you, Mr. Obama”

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(Philadelphia, PA, 2/2/2016) – The Philadelphia Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Philadelphia), the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, welcomes President Barack Obama’s visit today to the Islamic Society of Baltimore. This was Mr. Obama’s first…

Director’s Desk: Reflection on the Two Eids Campaign

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Sixty-two years ago, in the landmark case of Brown vs Board of Education, a unanimous Supreme Court of the United States ruled that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Separate educational facilities, the Court said, “were inherently unequal.” The ruling paved the road to integration and was considered a major victory for the civil rights movement.