CAIR-Chicago Communications Coordinator Reem Rahman was recently interviewed by 89.5 FM, a station of Chicago public radio, to share insight on a discrimination case in Georgia involving a Muslim woman who refused to remove her head scarf.

The executive director of the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy group will be at The University of Arizona Thursday for a discussion about the discrimination that Muslim-Americans face.

Joe Kaufman, the virulent Islamophobe and follower of the late extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane, is at it again in his endless crusade to slime CAIR and demonize Muslims. In this most recent episode, the “gumshoe detective” wrote a piece for the universally-rejected Right-wing mouthpiece FrontPageMag absurdly titled “Chicago’s Hamas Youth.”

CAIR-Chicago Government Affairs Coordinator, Shahzeen Karim and Sensitivity Training Coordinator Veronica Zapata, presented a lecture this April 10, 2008 to a group of undergraduate classmen at Loyola University regarding political activism of American Muslims and the impact Muslim organizations have had in the community

In an effort to address concerns of the Muslim community, delegates from CAIR-Chicago recently visited Capitol Hill with CAIR members from across the nation.

KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with Ahmed Rehab of the Council on American Islamic Relations about the re-publishing of the cartoon and about racism targeting Muslims.

CAIR has come together with a diverse coalition of religious and civic organizations to urge advertisers to boycott Michael Savage’s radio talk show The Savage Nation. Joining a growing constituency of advertisers, three more major companies have already removed their ads from the nationally syndicated show.

It took just two days for the Center for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to gather over 10,000 letters in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Approximately 1500 of these letters came from the Chicago area.

CAIR recently launched the “Do Your Part” initiative in preparation for the 2008 elections. The initiative promotes active participation and public education of the American-Muslim community.

A TERRIBLE hate crime against an Iranian American woman on New York’s Long Island has thrown a spotlight on the tide of racism toward Arabs and Muslims that has accompanied the U.S. government’s wars overseas.