Last week a federal judge in New Jersey dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Muslim Advocates challenging the New York City Police Department’s spying on the Muslim community in New Jersey. Judge William J. Martini dismissed…
The Olympics and Sochi. As we all gather around the TV each evening to be thrilled by ice dancing and another exciting match of curling, we should remember the repressive conditions that Sochi’s 20,000 Muslims live under. Muslim leaders have been pushing for permission to build a new mosque since 1996. “I'm so tired of writing letters—whole files—it just drags on and on,” a Muslim organizer told the Norwegian news organization Forum 18 in 2006.
As of January 31, 2014, attorney Amara Chaudhry-Kravitz, who has served as CAIR-Philadelphia’s Legal Director since September 2011, will be moving into a new “Of Counsel” role in which she will continue to serve CAIR-Philadelphia in a limited capacity while…
On Tuesday, February 25, Amara Chaudhry-Kravitz will be giving a presentation at Villanova University titled “Is Brown the New Black: Are American Muslims Being Racially Profiled?” This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. All are welcome, and specific…
In our January 8 update, we told you about two school bullying cases which had recently come into the CAIR-Philadelphia office. One case involved a school faculty member who made several anti-Muslim remarks, and the other case involved a child who…
CAIR-Philadelphia continues its efforts to educate Muslim young people in the Philadelphia region, through our Muslim Youth Leadership Program (MYLP), about how to deal with verbal and physical bullying, and how to respond to bigoted attacks on Islam, The Prophet…
CAIR-Philadelphia is continuing to organize free screenings of Jacob Bender’s award-winning documentary film OUT OF CORDOBA about Muslim Spain and contemporary interfaith relations. To request screenings of OUT OF CORDOBA in your area, please contact our office at 267-515-6710.
Today’s The New York Times published a “Letter-to-the-Editor” that I wrote, responding to their editorial “Mixed Results for Mideast Democracy” of Jan. 16.
[This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending an interfaith banquet in Atlanta, Georgia, sponsored by MACE (Muslim American Community Enhancement), a largely African American Muslim organization. I was honored to receive MACE’s “Bridge Builder of the Year Award”…
