Ahmed Rehab says the position was revoked because of a false anti-Muslim blog attacking Kifah.

“There was nothing that would prevent him from fulfilling this role. Except for the fact that somebody out there wished to smear him and the ISP was either too lazy or incompetent to actually sift through the smears and figure out that they were smears. And instead decided to drop him to avoid any controversy. That’s unacceptable,” said Rehab.

Ahmed Rehab discusses the ground zero mosque controversy and clears misconceptions about Islam and Muslims.

Ahmed Rehab debates anti-Muslim bigot Pamela Geller regarding the “Ground Zero Mosque” and calls her out on her Islamophobia. Geller, founder of atlasshrugs.com and the Islamophobic hate-group Stop the Islamization of America (SOIA), attempts to associates all Muslims with 9/11 and terrorism.

CAIR-Chicago’s Ahmed Rehab debates Fox News’ John Gibson on the right of New York Muslims to build a mosque in lower Manhattan, a few blocks away from Ground Zero.

CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab talks to Fox Radio’s Alan Colmes about the recent decision in New York to permit the “Ground Zero mosque” to be built. Rehab also warns of the growing anti-Muslim network in the United States which seeks to delegitimize American Muslims.

Ahmed Rehab discusses misconceptions about Islam and American Muslims, specifically addressing the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy, and reacts to recent Sarah Palin twitter comments about the issue.

Ahmed Rehab talks to John Williams on CBS Radio about the fallacies surrounding the “Ground Zero Mosque” by reminding listeners that Islam as a religion is not terrorism.

Ironically, the piece by Anida Yeou Ali is about hate crimes against Muslims. She took excerpts from FBI files on hate crimes against people perceived to be Arab or Muslim.

ALI: There were three large caricature figures drawn on the wall which the installation occupies, and then there was a word bubble coming out of the caricature around where the text reads “kill all Arabs.”

CAIR-Chicago’s Ahmed Rehab and Yaser Tabbara talk to Worldview’s Jerome McDonnell as part of NPR’s week-long series “Islamic Reform: Towards a Global Reformation Movement”

The two discuss what Islamic Reform means to them, and how CAIR draws on lessons learned from the Civil Rights Movement.

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CAIR-Chicago Executive Director, Ahmed Rehab, talks to Fox News’ John Gibson about the Pentagon’s disinvitation of evangelist Franklin Graham from an army prayer service after pressure from various groups, including CAIR.