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ABC 7: CAIR-Chicago's Ahmed Rehab Discusses Lowe's All-American Muslim Controversy

December 12, 2011
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“What we’re being told here essentially is that it is too controversial to have a show with Muslim characters that are not portrayed as terrorists,” remarked CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab.

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Posted in Features, In the Media, Multimedia, TV Clips Tagged ABC, ABC 7, ads, advertisement, Ahmed Rehab, All-American Muslim, anti-Muslim, bigotry, boycott, commercial, Florida Family Association, Islam, Islamophobia, Lowe's, Muslim, reality show, sponsor, TLC, WLS

ABC 7: CAIR-Chicago’s Ahmed Rehab Discusses Lowe’s All-American Muslim Controversy

December 12, 2011
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“What we’re being told here essentially is that it is too controversial to have a show with Muslim characters that are not portrayed as terrorists,” remarked CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab.

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Posted in Features, In the Media, Multimedia, TV Clips Tagged ABC, ABC 7, ads, advertisement, Ahmed Rehab, All-American Muslim, anti-Muslim, bigotry, boycott, commercial, Florida Family Association, Islam, Islamophobia, Lowe's, Muslim, reality show, sponsor, TLC, WLS

ABC 7: CAIR-Chicago calls for hate crime charges in downstate slashing

December 8, 2011
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“It’s something that we must take very seriously,” said CAIR-Chicago executive director Ahmed M. Rehab. “CAIR-Chicago is very disturbed by this news. The Muslim community is disturbed. People of conscience are disturbed. We’ve called police to investigate it, and to prosecute it as a hate crime, because that’s what it is.”

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media Tagged ABC 7, Ahmed Rehab, attack, CAIR, Champaign, chicago, Executive Director, hate crime, investigation, Islam, Joshua Scaggs, law professor, Middle Eastern, Muslim, Stabbing, train station, University of Illinois, Urbana, WLS

ABC 7: CAIR-Chicago's Ahmed Rehab Discusses Racist, Anti-Muslim TSA Official

October 12, 2011
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A veteran officer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Chicago is being disciplined after posting hundreds of racist and derogatory comments on Facebook. Not only were Officer Roy Egan’s racial and religious rants open for anyone to see, for years he openly identified himself by name on Facebook and listed his employer as U.S. Homeland Security-TSA, the Transportation Security Administration.

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Posted in Anti Hate Center, Features, In the Media, Multimedia, TV Clips Tagged ABC 7, Ahmed Rehab, anti-Muslim, bigot, bigotry, Chuck Goudie, Facebook, I-Team, Investigative Report, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslim, racism, Racist, rant, Roy Egan, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, WLS

ABC 7: CAIR-Chicago’s Ahmed Rehab Discusses Racist, Anti-Muslim TSA Official

October 12, 2011
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A veteran officer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Chicago is being disciplined after posting hundreds of racist and derogatory comments on Facebook. Not only were Officer Roy Egan’s racial and religious rants open for anyone to see, for years he openly identified himself by name on Facebook and listed his employer as U.S. Homeland Security-TSA, the Transportation Security Administration.

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Posted in Anti Hate Center, Features, In the Media, Multimedia, TV Clips Tagged ABC 7, Ahmed Rehab, anti-Muslim, bigot, bigotry, Chuck Goudie, Facebook, I-Team, Investigative Report, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslim, racism, Racist, rant, Roy Egan, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, WLS

ABC: Muslim Family Sues Forest Preserve for Discrimination

December 30, 2010
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The Chicago Chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) filed two complaints in Circuit Court on behalf of Mahmoud Yaqub, his wife, and two children. The Cook County Forest Preserve is being sued for religious discrimination because Yaqub and his family were denied admission to a swimming facility.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media, Multimedia, TV Clips Tagged ABC, ABC 7, Cermak Family Aquatic Center, Circuit Court, Cook County Forest Preserve, IDHR, Illinois Department of Human Rights, Mahmoud Yaqub, WLS, Yaqub

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

Media Digest: CAIR-Chicago Files Lawsuit Against Ill. State Police for Sheikh Kifah Mustapha

September 1, 2010
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CAIR-Chicago filed a discrimination complaint in federal court this week against the Illinois State Police (ISP) on behalf of Kifah Mustapha, a leading Muslim religious leader (Imam) based in Chicago. The ISP revoked his chaplaincy position citing a dubious Internet report attacking him. The report was written by Steven Emerson, an anti-Muslim blogger notorious for fighting against American Muslim civic participation. See media coverage of the lawsuit
HERE.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, In the Media, News Digests Tagged ABC, ABC 7, Ahmed Rehan, AP, Associated Press, blog, chaplain, Chicago Public Radio, Chicago Tribune, Christina Abraham, Illinois State Police, Islam, Islamophobia, ISP, Kevin Vodak, Kifah, Kifah Mustafa, Kifah Mustapha, Mosque Foundation, Muslim, Muslim Chaplain, Mustapha, News, Steven Emerson, TV, WLS

WLS am 890: State Police fire Muslim chaplain over Internet smear

August 30, 2010
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“Imam Kifah [Mustapha] is an upstanding citizen who has served this country and his community time and again,” Christina Abraham, civil rights director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Chicago, said in a release.

“It is time to put an end to the fear-mongering and anti-Muslim rhetoric that has senselessly engulfed our nation,” she said.

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Posted in Civil Rights Center, Features, In the Media Tagged Ahmed Rehan, blog, chaplain, Christina Abraham, FAIR, Illinois State Police, Islam, Islamophobia, ISP, Kevin Vodak, Kifah, Kifah Mustafa, Kifah Mustapha, Mosque Foundation, Muslim, Muslim Chaplain, Mustapha, radio, Steven Emerson, WLS, WLS am 890
 
 
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