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Chicago Sun-Times: Holy month unites Chicago Muslims

July 8, 2013
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Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg profiles Chicago’s diverse Muslim community in time for the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.

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Posted in Features, In the Media Tagged Ahmed Rehab, CAIR, CAIR Chicago, chicago, Council on American Islamic Relations, local, Muslim Community, Niel Steinberg, Prayer, Ramadan, Sun-Times

Chicago Sun-Times: Muslim grave desecrated at Evergreen Park cemetery

August 17, 2012
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Community and religious groups will protest in downtown Chicago on Friday after a Muslim man found his father’s grave desecrated at an Evergreen Park cemetery, an apparent act of vandalism that follows two other incidents targeting Muslim institutions.

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Posted in Features, In the Media Tagged CAIR, CAIR Chicago, Council on American Islamic Relations, Evergreen Park, FBI, graffiti, graveyard, Hate, Islam, Media, Muslim, Police, Sun-Times, vandalism

Chicago Sun-Times: Religious figures denounce Rep. Walsh’s comments on Muslims, demand apology

August 10, 2012
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Christian and Jewish figures in Chicago joined a coalition of Muslim groups Friday in denouncing a comment by U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), who told a town hall gathering Wednesday in Elk Grove Village that some radical Muslims in this country are “trying to kill Americans every week.”

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Posted in Features, In the Media Tagged CAIR, CAIR Chicago, chicago, Christian, Council on American Islamic Relations, Islamophobia, Jewish, Joe Walsh, Media, Muslim, News, Republican, Sun-Times

Sun-Times: Backlash over Lowe’s pulling ads from Muslim show

December 13, 2011
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“It’s a stupid decision morally and a stupid decision economically,” said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Council on Islamic-American Relations Chicago. “They need to acknowledge their error and that they got duped by right-wing bigots, apologize and resume their ads.”

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Posted in Anti Hate Center, Features, In the Media Tagged ads, advertisement, Ahmed Rehab, All-American Muslim, anti-Muslim, bigotry, boycott, commercial, Florida Family Association, Islam, Islamophobia, Lowe's, Muslim, reality show, sponsor, Sun-Times, TLC

Naperville Sun: Naperville Islamic center refusal going to court

March 30, 2011
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CAIR, which advocates for religious freedom and civil liberties in the Muslim community, also maintains that Irshad officials tried to pursue remedies for the permit refusal through normal administrative channels before filing the federal suit.

Kevin Vodak, the attorney arguing the case for CAIR and Irshad, was pleased overall with the ruling.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media Tagged Art Barnum, CAIR Chicago, County, County board, DuPage, ILC, Irshad Learning Center, Kevin Vodak, Naperville, Naperville Sun, Staff Attorney, Sun-Times

CAIR-Chicago Files Complaints Against Cook County Forest Preserve District on Behalf of Muslim Family

December 30, 2010
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CAIR-Chicago filed two complaints in circuit court today against the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. The complaints were filed on behalf of a Muslim family that was barred from entering a children’s water park last year because of their clothing.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, Press Center Tagged ABC, ABC 7, Cermak Family Aquatic Center, Christina Abraham, Circuit Court, Cook County Forest Preserve, IDHR, Illinois Department of Human Rights, Mahmoud Yaqub, Sun-Times, WGN, WLS, Yaqub

Sun-Times: Muslim Americans rally to get out vote

October 22, 2010
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“American Muslims are not a threat to this nation,” said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “The threat to this nation is those who would divide us based on race, faith or ethnicity because those are the ones who undermine our values.”

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Posted in Features, In the Media Tagged Ahmed Rehab, Amy Lee, CIOGC, election, Election Day, Executive Director, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), Islam, Islamophobia, Kiran Ansari, Lawrence Benito, Mosque Foundation, Muslim, Muslim girls, Polls, Sun-Times, Universal School, Vote, Voting

MEDIA DIGEST: Muslim Art Exhibit About Hate Crimes, Defaced at the School of the Art Institute

May 13, 2010
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Vandals defaced an exhibit by Muslim graduate student Anida Yoeu Ali at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) on Tuesday. The exhibit, which addressed racial profiling and the rise of violence and hate directed at Muslims in the post-9/11 era, was defaced with large caricatures and a word bubble highlighting the text “Kill all Arabs.”

CAIR-Chicago is advocating on behalf of Ali. Civil Rights Director Christina Abraham accompanied Ali yesterday in a meeting with the deans of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

See media coverage of the incident HERE

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Posted in Features Tagged ABC, Anida Yoeu Ali, Art, Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, Artist, bigotry, CBS, Chicago Tribune, Christina Abraham, civil rights, Deface, discrimination, Exhibit, hate crime, Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, Islam, Muslim, religious discrimination, Roseanne Tellez, SAIC, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sun-Times, Vandalize, vandals, WGN

Display meant to stop crimes against Muslims defaced Hateful attack on hate-crime art

May 13, 2010
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The work, titled “1700 Percent: Otherance,” features racist statements written across a white wall. Ali said the piece seeks to bring attention to hate crimes against Muslims and Arabs in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. As part of the evolving display, Ali and other artists have read aloud the words and also stained them with a mixture of tea, coffee and ink, Ali said.

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Posted in In the Media Tagged Anida Yoeu Ali, Art, Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago, Artist, bigotry, Christina Abraham, civil rights, Deface, discrimination, Exhibit, hate crime, Islam, Muslim, Newspaper, religious discrimination, SAIC, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sun-Times, Vandalize, vandals

Sun-Times, Neil Steinberg: Our values as if we meant them

April 24, 2010
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“My column on the Council on American-Islamic Relations drew the expected range of response,” writes Neil Steinberg. “There was much castigating me as a “useful idiot” blind to the gathering Islamic peril (one reader recommended a book by Brigitte Gabriel that’s actually called They Must Be Stopped, which sounds like the title of a 1950s B-movie about giant ants).
“But there were a surprising number of thoughtful, warm, humane responses, and not just from Muslims grateful to seeing themselves depicted as human beings.”

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Posted in Features, In the Media Tagged Brigitte Gabriel, Catholic, Fear, Islam, Muslim, Neil Steinberg, Sun-Times
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