The Muslim Post

California Mosques Receive Threatening Letters

Several mosques in California received letters that threatened violence against Muslims and praised President-elect Donald Trump, prompting the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to call for added protection at Islamic worship places in the state. The handwritten and photocopied letters were sent last week to the Islamic Center of Long Beach, the Islamic Center of […]

Muslim-American Leaders React to Trump’s Election

Leaders of Muslim-American communities and organizations congratulated Donald Trump, and implored the president-elect to change his tone and protect the rights of all Americans, at a Wednesday afternoon news conference held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and live-streamed on the organization’s Facebook page. The Republican nominee, whose decisive victory Tuesday night startled many in […]

Muslims at the DNC: Taking a stand against Islamophobia

Muslims at the DNC: Taking a stand against Islamophobia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – On the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention, where delegates will formally nominate Hillary Clinton as the party’s presidential candidate, Muslim leaders gathered to push the community to vote, calling the ballot a powerful means to challenge the growing problem of Islamophobia. “You don’t have to go to Canada, just register and […]

CAIR Urges GOP to Disinvite Dutch Islam-Hater Geert Wilders from Cleveland Convention

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Republic Party to disinvite notorious Dutch Islamophobe Geert Wilders from its national convention in Cleveland. Wilders noted last night on Twitter that he had arrived to attend the convention at […]

Man confronted by US police after false ISIL accusation

When Ahmed al-Menhali entered a hotel in one of Ohio’s Cleveland suburbs, he simply wanted to find an available room. He didn’t imagine it would end with him having what was possibly a stroke while being accosted by gun-toting police following false accusations that he was a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and […]

CAIR Says Donald Trump’s ‘Hibi-Jabis’ Reply Endangers Muslim Women

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s apparent support for an Islamophobic town hall question will endanger American Muslim women. During a question-and-answer session yesterday at a town hall event in Manchester, N.H., […]

Fear Sells – Islamophobia is Big Business

According to a report released today by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley, 33 Islamophobic groups had access to at least $205,000,000 in total revenue between 2008-2013. Not bad business for fear-mongering and inciting hatred and bigotry, after all, we all know fear sells.  We […]

CAIR: More than a dozen Muslims discriminated against at work

CAIR: More than a dozen Muslims discriminated against at work

More than a dozen Minnesota Muslims say their employers discriminated against them because of their religious practices, according to a claim filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Amarita Singh, civil rights director for the state chapter of the Council on Islamic-American Relations, said Truth Hardware and Doherty Staffing Solutions violated the workers’ constitutional […]

BOE member who posted Muslims should ‘(s)tay in your desserts’ resigns

Gladys Gryskiewicz anti Muslim facebook post

ELMWOOD PARK — The borough Board of Education member who faced criticism and calls to step down over anti-Muslim posts she made on Facebook resigned Friday, a report said. Gladys Gryskiewicz cited safety concerns for her family in resigning, according The Record report. Gryskiewicz wrote on post on her Facebook account that told Muslims to […]

‘I have no disrespect for Muslims’ BOE member says after Facebook controversy

ELMWOOD PARK — The borough school board member who was widely criticized for making anti-Muslim posts on Facebook said her comments were being taken out of context. Gladys Gryskiewicz reportedly posted one comment that told Muslims to “(s)tay in your desserts [sic] and follow your religion in your own countries,” the New Jersey chapter of […]