Emma Melton of the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Abuatelah against the village of Oak Lawn and the three officers involved in the beating.
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CHICAGO - CAIR-Chicago hosted a news conference following the grand jury indictment of Oak Lawn Police officer, Patrick O’Donnell.
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CAIR-Chicago’s Staff Attorney Emma Melton, ESQ. responds to grand jury indictment of Oak Lawn police officer in bruutal beating of 17-year-old Hadi Abuatelah in July 2022.
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CAIR-Chicago, the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, will hold a news conference welcoming the grand jury indictment of Oak Lawn Police Officer, Patrick O’Donnell, in the brutal beating of then 17-year-old Hadi Abuatelah in July 2022.
Read MoreReacting to a controversial Islamic group's meeting in their back yard, protesters clad in red, white and blue decried Sunday's meeting by the group Hizb-ut Tahrir at Oak Lawn's Hilton hotel.
Read MoreI guess when you don't have the guts to call someone a terrorist, anti-American grinch will do. Elizabeth Zahdan might as well have been burning the flag or an effigy of President Bush when she hung up Ramadan lights at an Oak Lawn elementary school a few days back, prompting outrage from other parents and subsequently forcing Ridgeland School District 122 to consider a ban on Christmas and Halloween parties.
Read MoreCAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab discusses the challenges surrounding the recent accommodation of Ramadan along with Christmas and Halloween in an Oak Lawn, Illinois public school and the continued need to patiently stand for truth, justice, and knowledge.
Read MoreResidents and school officials in Oak Lawn said they want to unite their community after a tense three-week debate divided some Christians and Muslims.
Read MoreCAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab discusses the successful accommodation of Ramadan along with Christmas and Halloween in an Oak Lawn, Illinois public school and a recent Senate resolution acknowledging Ramadan and recognizing Islam as a major world religion.
Read MoreAHMED REHAB, EXEC. DIR., CAIR-CHICAGO: It is not the pluralistic, inclusive, educated America that we try to teach our children to embrace. They’re trying to exclude Muslims from celebrating their festivities. No Muslim involved in this raucous at any point wanted to remove Christmas or Hanukkah or even Halloween from the school festivities. All they wanted to do was to bring in Ramadan.
Read MoreCAIR-Chicago executive director, Ahmed Rehab, discusses the recent successful inclusion of Ramadan along with Christmas and Hanukkah celebrations after opposition from parents at a local public school. Dan Rea and Rehab also discuss how the reasonable accommodation of all cultures and religions is central to American pluralism.
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