"What are we Muslims to do about this? Rather than concern ourselves too much with the actions of others, let’s put our own values to action. If someone wishes to offend, let them knock themselves out trying. Let us instead take the higher ground and appreciate the mercy, love, and other teachings our prophet brought us by making a prayer for him on a day when others go out of their way to ridicule him," writes Ahmed Rehab.
Read More"What are we Muslims to do about this? Rather than concern ourselves too much with the actions of others, let’s put our own values to action. If someone wishes to offend, let them knock themselves out trying. Let us instead take the higher ground and appreciate the mercy, love, and other teachings our prophet brought us by making a prayer for him on a day when others go out of their way to ridicule him," writes Ahmed Rehab.
Read MoreSome newspaper editors think a satirical political cartoonist who often tackles taboo topics might have crossed a line when he incorporated a sexual innuendo into a comic strip about a character’s conversion to radical Islam. But it’s not the first strip by the artist to poke fun at religion.
Read MoreOK, so I have witnessed the impudent display of reductionism otherwise known as a Jack Higgins cartoon last Wednesday. I have seen his characterization of the Prophet Muhammad as a sword-wielding, raging lunatic with a mountain of skulls at his trail.
Read MoreThe message Sunday from a politician, a clergyman, a rabbi and a Muslim activist to a Jewish congregation in Uptown that saw its synagogue recently defaced by anti-Semitic graffiti was the same: A hate crime against one group is a crime against all humanity.
Read MoreThe Chicago chapter of a prominent Islamic civil-rights group tackled the controversy over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad on Saturday night at a town hall meeting as part of a yearlong campaign to educate the public.
Read MoreCAIR-Chicago Director of Communications, Ahmed Rehab, speaks to Rusty Humphries on his popular right wing show.
Read MoreCAIR-Chicago Executive Director was interviewed today regarding the Danish Prophet Cartoon controversy on Chicago Public Radio.
Read MoreThe violent and now deadly protests rippling through Asia and the Middle East over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad reflects a larger schism and lack of understanding between traditional Western cultures and Islam, experts said Monday.
Read MoreBEIRUT -- Thousands of Muslims rioted Sunday in downtown Beirut, setting fire to the Danish Consulate, attacking a Maronite Catholic church and smashing car and shop windows in protest of the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Western newspapers.
Read MoreI was gravely disappointed by a political cartoon on the Sept. 9 Editorial page that collectively portrayed Muslims as hypocrites. The cartoon suggests that Muslims are indifferent to the massacre of children and innocents.
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