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Tag: Fort Hood

CBS News: Threats Against Chicago Muslims on the Rise

January 15, 2010
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“If you add up hate mail, hateful phone calls and e-mails, racial slurs being yelled at people and verbal or physical altercations, it’s dozens of incidents,” said Amina Sharif.

“Hate is a self-addressed envelope and so the person who bears this hate is the victim of his own hatred before I am. And I can only pray for that person to find peace and to rid himself of that hatred,” said Ahmed Rehab.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media, TV Clips Tagged Ahmed Rehab, Amina Sharif, attack, CBS, CBS News, chicago, civil rights, Fort Hood, hate crime, Hate Mail, Islam, Jeanean Othman, Mike Puccinelli, Mosque Foundation, Muslims, Threats

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

Guilty Plea Satisfies Suburban Muslim

January 6, 2010
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Amal Abusumayah says Valerie Kenney, 54, complained loudly in a Tinley Park grocery aisle about a November shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. Police say Kenney also pulled on Abusumayah’s headscarf.

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Posted in Action Alerts Tagged Amal Abusumayah, CAIR Chicago, Cook County, Fort Hood, Headscarf, Muslims, 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

Woman charged in Fort Hood-related hate crime: Pulling a headscarf

November 20, 2009
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Two days after the Fort Hood shootings, a Tinley Park, Ill., woman grumbled about the massacre and tugged the headscarf of a US-born Muslim woman, Amal Abusumayah, standing in line at a local grocery store.

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Posted in Action Alerts Tagged Amal Abusumayah, CAIR Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times, Fort Hood, Headscarf, Muslim, Richard Roeper, The Pew Research Center, Tinley Park, Valerie Kenney

Sun-Times: Steinberg is on point

November 13, 2009
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I was pleasantly surprised to find myself in complete agreement with Neil Steinberg’s column, “Before you generalize about the major.”

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Posted in Media Monitor Tagged Fort Hood, Islam, Letter to Editor, Muslim, Neil Steinberg, racism, Sun-Times

Ahmed Rehab Talks to WGN's John Williams about Misconceptions of Islam

November 12, 2009
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“I would love the opportunity to talk about my faith proactively when there isn’t something terrible happening. And everyday, good things are going on, but the one day that something bad happens, that’s when people become interested in our faith and that is troublesome,” said Ahmed Rehab, CAIR-Chicago Executive Director.

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Posted in Audio Clips, Features, In the Media Tagged Ahmed Rehab, Fort Hood, Imam, Islam, jihad, John Williams, Muslim, Pope, radio, stereotype, Terror, terrorism, Terrorist, violence, WGN

Ahmed Rehab Talks to WGN’s John Williams about Misconceptions of Islam

November 12, 2009
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“I would love the opportunity to talk about my faith proactively when there isn’t something terrible happening. And everyday, good things are going on, but the one day that something bad happens, that’s when people become interested in our faith and that is troublesome,” said Ahmed Rehab, CAIR-Chicago Executive Director.

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Posted in Audio Clips, Features, In the Media Tagged Ahmed Rehab, Fort Hood, Imam, Islam, jihad, John Williams, Muslim, Pope, radio, stereotype, Terror, terrorism, Terrorist, violence, WGN
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