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		<title>WGN Radio: Jonathon Brandmeier talks to CAIR-Chicago&#8217;s Ahmed Rehab about Lowe&#8217;s All-American Muslim Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.cairchicago.org/2011/12/14/wgn-radio-jonathon-brandmeier-talks-to-cair-chicagos-ahmed-rehab-about-lowes-all-american-muslim-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab talks to WGN Radio's Jonathon Brandmeier about how the home improvement chain, Lowe's, gave in to anti-Muslim bigotry when it decided to pull its ads off the show 'All-American Muslim'.]]></description>
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		<title>Sun-Times: Backlash over Lowe’s pulling ads from Muslim show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“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.”]]></description>
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		<title>Islamophobia Today: Let’s Face it &#8211; It’s the Radical Right, not Islam, that is the Greatest Threat to the American Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmed Rehab discusses the ridiculous decision by the chain store Lowe’s to pull it advertisements from the show ‘All-American Muslim.’  “Imagine if a major American advertiser were to pull its ads off of 'Jersey Shore' because they received objections that the show, while portraying a group of Italian-Americans, made the glaring error of excluding Mafiosi," writes Rehab.]]></description>
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		<title>CBS 2: CAIR-Chicago&#8217;s Ahmed Rehab Rebukes Lowe&#8217;s for Caving to Anti-Muslim Bigotry</title>
		<link>http://www.cairchicago.org/2011/12/12/cbs-2-cair-chicagos-ahmed-rehab-rebukes-lowes-for-caving-to-anti-muslim-bigotry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It's one thing for bigots and nuts to be bigots and nuts.  It's another thing for a mainstream company to embrace that. This is the mainstreaming of bigotry," said Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director of CAIR-Chicago.  ]]></description>
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		<title>NBC 5: CAIR-Chicago Criticizes Lowe&#8217;s for Pulling Ads from &#8216;All-American Muslim&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["We were really disappointed and stunned that Lowe's, a major corporation, would take such a stupid decision to side with bigotry," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of CAIR-Chicago. Rehab called the group's action a step in the wrong direction and an insult to the Muslim community.]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Tribune: Lowe&#8217;s criticized after fleeing Muslim reality show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago activist, Ahmed Rehab, said a conference call was planned with Muslim groups and other groups to craft a response. He said it is not too late, however, for Lowe's to fix things.  "There will be room for reconciliation," he said. "We would call on Lowe's to do the right thing and apologize for their really insane action and to reverse the decision to pull out."]]></description>
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		<title>Radical Anti-Muslim Site FrontPageMag&#8217;s Hate Affair</title>
		<link>http://www.cairchicago.org/2011/11/28/radical-anti-muslim-site-frontpagemags-hate-affair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hardly breaking news: the far-right Anti-Muslim website FrontPageMag today did what it was created to do: lie about Muslims.  Now they are claiming that Illinois Governor Pat Quinn supposedly appointed the “Muslim Brotherhood” to his newly created Muslim Advisory Council.

“Frontpagemag is a joke,” said Ahmed Rehab. “No one I know takes it seriously. It’s a tool of David Horowitz, the Grand Wizard of Islamophobia, the purveyor of other anti-Muslim platforms as the notorious JihadWatch run by his minion, Robert Spencer.]]></description>
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		<title>Amina Sharif discusses anti-Sharia movement on panel at Chicago-Kent College of Law</title>
		<link>http://www.cairchicago.org/2011/11/21/amina-sharif-discusses-anti-sharia-movement-on-panel-at-chicago-kent-college-of-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 15, 2011, CAIR-Chicago’s Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif joined a panel discussion on the Constitutionality of legislation, proposed in 25 states, banning Sharia law.  The panel included Chicago-Kent Constitutional Law Professors Steven J. Heyman and Mark Rosen.]]></description>
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		<title>WLS Radio 890AM: TSA officer fired over anti-Muslim Facebook posts</title>
		<link>http://www.cairchicago.org/2011/11/17/wls-radio-890am-tsa-officer-fired-over-anti-muslim-facebook-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahmed Rehab, CAIR-Chicago executive director commended the TSA for Egan's firing.  "We made it clear that Egan's discourse was as much an embarrassment to the agency and the values it stands for, as it was an affront against Muslims and other minorities," Rehab said in a statement.]]></description>
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: CAIR-Chicago applauds TSA’s removal of bigoted employee</title>
		<link>http://www.cairchicago.org/2011/11/16/press-release-cair-chicago-applauds-tsa%e2%80%99s-removal-of-bigoted-employee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAIR-Chicago commends the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for taking decisive action against an employee who publically spewed racist and bigoted rants against Muslims, African Americans, Latinos, and Homosexuals. Roy Egan had worked at O’Hare airport for nine years where he checked passenger baggage. ]]></description>
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