
COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS - CHICAGO | DEFENDING CIVIL RIGHTS. FIGHTING BIGOTRY. PROMOTING TOLERANCE
More than 16,000 people have requested free copies of the Quran since the launch of CAIR’s “Explore the Quran” campaign on May 17.
Here’s a story from the News & Record. This is just mind-boggling. Greensboro, North Carolina. “The decision by local court officials to deny the use of the Quran for oaths has garnered national media attention and the scrutiny of a Washington-based Islamic civil rights group.
www.explorethequran.org Almost 14,000 people have requested free copies of the Quran since the launch of CAIR’s “Explore the Quran” campaign on May 17. Residents of California top the list of those asking for Qurans, with 10 percent of total requests.
(Washington, DC, 5/18/2005) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called for people of conscience to support a resolution that “recognizes that the Qur’an as any other holy book of any religion, should be treated with dignity and respect.”
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/11/05) – CAIR is urging American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact the White House in support of a public investigation into reports that interrogators at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay flushed a Quran down a toilet.