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WGN TV: Suburban woman accused in hate crime reaches plea deal

January 6, 2010
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CAIR-Chicago Civil Rights Director Christina Abraham, who attended the hearing with Amal Abusumayyah, said afterward, “We are hopeful that this sent a message to the public that sort of behavior will not be tolerated by a fair and just society.”

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media, TV Clips Tagged Amal Abusumayah, Battery, Bridgeview, Christina Abraham, discrimination, Fort Hood, Guilty Plea, hate crime, Headscarf, Jewel, Misdemeanor, Muslim, Tinley Park, TV, Valerie Kenney, WGN

Muslim Woman Vindicated for Hate Crime

January 6, 2010
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CAIR-Chicago announced today that it is pleased with the plea agreement reached yesterday between state prosecutors and Valerie Kenney, a suburban woman who faced hate crime charges after attacking a Muslim woman at a Tinley Park grocery store 2 days after the Fort Hood shooting.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, Press Center Tagged Amal Abusumayah, Battery, Bridgeview, Christina Abraham, Fort Hood, Guilty Plea, hate crime, Headscarf, Jewel, Misdemeanor, Muslim, Tinley Park, Valerie Kenney

NPR: Muslim Headscarf Case Leads to Guilty Plea

January 6, 2010
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“It gives her an opportunity to learn from her mistake,” said Christina Abraham of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “And we think this does send a message to the greater community that hate crimes are not going to be tolerated and that this sort of behavior is wrong.”

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Posted in Audio Clips, Features, In the Media Tagged Amal Abusumayah, Battery, Bridgeview, Chicago Public Radio, Christina Abraham, Fort Hood, Guilty Plea, hate crime, Headscarf, Jewel, Misdemeanor, Muslim, NPR, Tinley Park, Valerie Kenney

Chicago Tribune: Scarf-pulling incident ends in probation for Tinley Park woman

January 6, 2010
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An official with the Chicago-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, which became involved in the case, said the backlash against Muslim-Americans had spiked somewhat in the days immediately following the Fort Hood shooting but has subsided.

“We try to rally community support for (victims and their families) and to make sure the state’s attorney is pursuing the case with the utmost importance,” said spokeswoman Christina Abraham.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media Tagged Amal Abusumayah, Battery, Bridgeview, Chicago Tribune, Christina Abraham, Fort Hood, Guilty, hate crime, Headscarf, Jewel, Misdemeanor, Muslim, Plea, Tinley Park, Valerie Kenney

Sun-Times: Hate crimes in a class of their own

November 28, 2009
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“Hate crimes are their own class of crime for a very good reason: The enhanced classification and punishment deters people from criminally acting out on their bigotry. It is the government’s obligation to its citizens to take a no-tolerance position on such crimes,” writes Ahmed Rehab.

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Posted in Features, In the Media Tagged Ahmed Rehab, Amal Abusumayah, Battery, hate crime, Headscarf, hijab, Islam, Muslim, Religion, religious discrimination, Richard Roeper, Sun-Times, Tinley Park, Valerie Kenney

Chicago Tribune: Muslim woman says supermarket shopper pulled at her head scarf

November 15, 2009
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“Pulling a woman’s head scarf is clearly a hate crime and should therefore be investigated as such,” said Christina Abraham, the Chicago civil rights director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, In the Media Tagged Amal Abusumayah, Battery, Christina Abraham, FBI, hate crime, hijab, Islam, Muslim, Tinley Park

ABC7: Ahmed Rehab discusses attack on local Muslim woman

November 13, 2009
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CAIR-Chicago executive director Ahmed Rehab comments on the assault on a Muslim woman in Tinley Park, IL. Amal Abusumayah was shopping when another customer made hateful comments against Muslims and attempted to pull off Abusumayah’s headscarf.

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Posted in Features, In the Media, TV Clips Tagged Ahmed Rehab, Amal Abusumayah, Battery, FBI, hate crime, hijab, Islam, Muslim, Tinley Park

Southtown Star: Tinley woman assaulted at grocery store

November 13, 2009
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Amal Abusumayah was paying for her groceries when she felt a sharp tug on her headscarf. When she looked at who had pulled her hijab, Abusumayah saw a woman who moments earlier had made a derogatory comment about Islam. Becky Schlikerman reports on a CAIR-Chicago client.

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Posted in In the Media Tagged Ahmed Rehab, Amal Abusumayah, Battery, FBI, hate crime, hijab, Islam, Muslim, Tinley Park
 
 
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