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Patheos: Charlie Hebdo, Boko Haram and Three Uncomfortable Questions

January 22, 2015
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Whether purposeful or unwitting — which is quite possible by the way — our disposition to the narrative of the East/West divide, the invading hordes, the clash of civilizations is a timid yet omnipresent undercurrent in mainstream consciousness.

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ALJAZEERA AMERICA: GROUP WANTS FBI PROBE AFTER GUNSHOT FIRED AT ILLINOIS MOSQUE

March 26, 2014
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“It happened during morning prayers when there were people inside,” Ahmed Rehab, executive director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Chicago, told Al Jazeera. “It disrupted the prayer and debris fell down from the dome onto people.”

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Bullet hits mosque during prayer service, officials say

March 26, 2014
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“Incidents such as this have a chilling effect on worshippers. No one should have to go to their place of worship worried if they’ll make it back home alive,” Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in the statement.

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Chicago Tribune: Muslim grave site in Evergreen Park vandalized again

September 4, 2012
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A grave site in the Muslim section of Evergreen Cemetery in Evergreen Park has been defaced for the second time in two weeks.

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MEDIA DIGEST: CAIR-Chicago responds to vandalism of Muslim grave

August 21, 2012
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| Categories: Anti Hate Center, Features, In the Media, News Digests

CAIR-Chicago held a protest downtown condemning hate and Islamophobia and it’s media department gave numerous interviews addressing the recent desecration of a Muslim man’s grave in Evergreen Park, IL.

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