The Michael Medved Show: Rehab Debates Medved on Juan Williams' Islamophobic Statement
Ahmed Rehab, CAIR-Chicago Executive Director, discusses the Juan Williams controversy with conservative political commentator Michael Medved.
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The Michael Medved Show: Rehab Debates Medved on Juan Williams’ Islamophobic Statement
October 22, 2010
Ahmed Rehab, CAIR-Chicago Executive Director, discusses the Juan Williams controversy with conservative political commentator Michael Medved.
CBS News: Local Muslim Leader Supports Commentator’s Firing
October 22, 2010
“I thought that NPR did the right thing,” Ahmed Rehab said. “They have a reputation to protect, and clearly his unobjective and sensational characterizations were not a good fit for their objective standards of journalism.”
Rehab says comments like those made by Williams encourage the stereotypes that generate fear of Muslims.
“There seems to be a refusal and willful ignorance when it comes to the simple notion that Muslims are not one in the same with terrorists,” he said.
Chicago Public Radio: Bias Suit Filed Against Illinois State Police
August 31, 2010
Ahmed Rehab says the position was revoked because of a false anti-Muslim blog attacking Kifah.
“There was nothing that would prevent him from fulfilling this role. Except for the fact that somebody out there wished to smear him and the ISP was either too lazy or incompetent to actually sift through the smears and figure out that they were smears. And instead decided to drop him to avoid any controversy. That’s unacceptable,” said Rehab.
Artist: Racism behind Damage to Piece on Hate Crimes
Ironically, the piece by Anida Yeou Ali is about hate crimes against Muslims. She took excerpts from FBI files on hate crimes against people perceived to be Arab or Muslim.
ALI: There were three large caricature figures drawn on the wall which the installation occupies, and then there was a word bubble coming out of the caricature around where the text reads “kill all Arabs.”
WBEZ Chicago Public Radio: Ahmed Rehab and Yaser Tabbara talk to Jerome McDonnell as part of NPR’s series on Islamic Reform
CAIR-Chicago’s Ahmed Rehab and Yaser Tabbara talk to Worldview’s Jerome McDonnell as part of NPR’s week-long series “Islamic Reform: Towards a Global Reformation Movement”
The two discuss what Islamic Reform means to them, and how CAIR draws on lessons learned from the Civil Rights Movement.
Listen HERE
WBEZ Chicago Public Radio: Ahmed Rehab and Yaser Tabbara talk to Jerome McDonnell as part of NPR's series on Islamic Reform
CAIR-Chicago’s Ahmed Rehab and Yaser Tabbara talk to Worldview’s Jerome McDonnell as part of NPR’s week-long series “Islamic Reform: Towards a Global Reformation Movement”
The two discuss what Islamic Reform means to them, and how CAIR draws on lessons learned from the Civil Rights Movement.
Listen HERE
NPR: Muslim Civil Rights Group Claims Discrimination
In the last few months, two faculty members have filed separate lawsuits against Truman College. The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says the school has done nothing to address their claims of harassment and prejudice.
NPR: Muslim Headscarf Case Leads to Guilty Plea
“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.”
Controversial Radical Islam DVD Distributed in New Hampshire
New Hampsire Public Radio: Controversial Radical Islam DVD Distributed in New Hampshire
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