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At 8:40 PM Saturday night June 9, 2012, the Council on American Islamic Relations Tampa Director Hassan Shibly, Esq., presented a "Know Your Rights Civil Liberties Conference" at the Masjid Al-Bir in Kissimmee, FL. The Masjid Al-Bir is a two year old pale green 15,000 square foot Mosque facility located in a remote rural part of Kissimmee, FL off Old Tampa Highway. As we approached the entrance of the Mosque, the women were instructed to enter through the women-only entrance leading them into a small area enclosed by a 6 foot solid white vinyl outdoor fence one could not see...

Former National Public Radio analyst Juan Williams, who was fired Wednesday for remarks about Muslims during an appearance on Fox News, said he didn’t even get a chance to talk face-to-face with his editors before they dropped him from the organization. According to Williams, NPR Vice President Ellen Weiss told him on the phone Wednesday afternoon that his public admission that he sometimes gets anxiety when he sees people wearing Muslim garb in airports was “bigoted” and “crosses the line.” Williams replied that he was actually disagreeing with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and trying to say that despite feeling...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- National Islamic advocates on Wednesday asked Wake County schools officials to discipline a teacher they say allowed anti-Islam literature to be distributed in his class. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, wrote Superintendent Del Burns asking that the incident at Enloe High School be investigated. According to the council, a representative from the Raleigh-based Kamil International Ministries Organization spoke to a ninth-grade world history class and distributed literature about Jesus and a handout titled "Do Not Marry a Muslim Man." The incident was reported by the father of a Muslim student, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said....