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Tag: Ben Small

Kevin Vodak Presents on Hate Crime Prosecution to Law Enforcement Officials

September 26, 2011
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| Categories: Anti Hate Center, Civil Rights Center, Features

CAIR-Chicago Litigation Director Kevin Vodak presented the “Hate Crime and Bias Awareness” conference on September 15th, 2011 to discuss the ways in which law enforcement agencies can improve their procedures and techniques in addressing hate crimes.

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Posted in Anti Hate Center, Civil Rights Center, Features Tagged Amal Abusumayah, Ben Small, CAIR Chicago, Candice Hart, Center on Halsted, Department of Justice Civil Right Division of the US Attorney General's Office, FBI, Ground Zero, Hate Crime and Bias Awareness, Illinois Gender Advocates, Islamophobia, Kevin Vodak, LGBT, Lisa Gilmore, Matt Nosanchuk, Office of Illinois Attorney General, Pamela Gellar, Park 51, Robert Spencer, Tinley Park, Valerie Kenney

Civil Disobedience at the Secure Communities Hearing

August 29, 2011
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On Wednesday, August 17th 2011, CAIR-Chicago staff attorney, Rabya Khan, and communications intern, Becky Fogel, attended a public hearing held by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to discuss the Secure Communities program. The event ended in civil disobedience led by local youth and the arrest of six attendees.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, Uncategorized Tagged Alaa Mukahhal, Becky Fogel, Ben Small, CAIR, CAIR Chicago, Chicago Bar Foundation, civil disobedience, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Ibew Hall, ICIRR, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Immigrant Youth Justice (IYJL), Islam, Moni Valasquez, Muslims, National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), Rabya Khan, Secure Communities

Staff Attorney Rabya Khan Meets with High School Regarding Anti-Muslim Worksheets

August 16, 2011
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Rabya Khan met with school officials to convey the importance of presenting balanced perspectives and not perpetuating stereotypes. CAIR-Chicago has requested that the school remove the worksheets, and not use them again or any similar worksheets. Rabya also provided a resource list of organizations that can conduct workshops on Islam, including CAIR-Chicago, and is compiling a list of educational resource companies with balanced materials on Islam and Muslims.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, Our News Tagged anti-Muslim, Ben Small, Bias, complaint, high school, History, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslim, opression, Rabya Khan, Social Studies, Staff Attorney, Women, Worksheets

Norwegian Terrorist Associated with Anti-Muslim Groups in the US and UK

July 26, 2011
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In the wake of the abhorrent events that occurred last Friday in Norway, information has come to light revealing connections between the terrorist suspect, Anders Brehing Breivik, to the anti-Islam movement in England, as well as to prominent Islamophobes in the US.

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Posted in Anti Hate Center, Features, Our News Tagged Anders Brehing Breivik, Angela Merkel, anti-Muslim, Atlas Shrugs, Ben Small, Christian, David Cameron, EDL, England, English Defense League, Eurabia, Geert Wilders, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Islamophobe, Islamophobia, Jihad Watch, manifesto, massacre, Muslim, Muslim Demographics, Nicolas Sarkozy, Norway, Pamela Geller, Racist, Robert Spencer, Sioa, SIOE, Stop the Islamization of America, Stop the Islamization of Europe, Terror, Terrorist, UK, US
 
 
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