"I wish it would have happened sooner, so as to save trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. But nonetheless justice delayed is better than justice denied. We're very thankful for the fact that this man has been apprehended and eliminated," said Ahmed Rehab of CAIR-Chicago.

I sincerely appreciate that President Obama made that statement, and wholeheartedly agree that Osama bin Laden isn't an Islamic leader; that in fact, he's a mass murderer of Muslims," said CAIR-Chicago Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif.

Amina Sharif, spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Chicago, sought to distance Islam from bin Laden during a news conference Monday. "Bin Laden never represented Islam and was never seen as a Muslim leader," Sharif said.

"The American Muslim community was relieved, there's a sense of vindication. This has been a long time coming," said Rehab.

Like many fellow Americans, Muslims also are eager to see an end to America's ongoing military involvement in the world, said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Chicago. “This incident shows what we've been saying all along that it's good intelligence and surgical strikes that are most effective in dealing with terrorists and not military occupation, certainly not the war in Iraq or the curbing of civil liberties and civil rights domestically,” Rehab said.

"We are relieved that justice has not been denied even if it has been delayed,” said Ahmed Rehab. “This goes to show that the way to fight terror is through good intelligence operations, and not military surges abroad, or the choking of civil liberties at home."

CAIR-Chicago's Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif comments on the death of Osama Bin Laden.

Gerald Hankerson, CAIR-Chicago’s Outreach Coordinator, and Amina Sharif, the Communications Coordinator, presented to a religion and culture class at Northwestern University on Thursday, April 21. The two discussed the role race and ethnicity play in the American Muslim experience.

CAIR-Chicago’s Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif delivered presentations to Media and Professional Writing classes at the University of Illinois at Chicago on April 19th and 26th. Professor Linda Landis Andrews

On April 23rd, Staff Attorney Kevin Vodak, and Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif participated in a summit about the zoning process for mosques in Illinois.

On April 23rd, Staff Attorney Kevin Vodak, and Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif participated in a summit about the zoning process for mosques in Illinois.

Kevin Vodak, CAIR-Chicago’s Staff Attorney, participated in a panel discussion in immigrant and human rights at WorldChicago’s Fulbright Scholar Conference on Saturday, April 2, 2011. The conference, held at the National Museum of Mexican Art, was entitled Democracy and Human Rights: An Exploration.

CAIR-Chicago executive director Ahmed Rehab was the keynote speaker at the Syrian American Medical Society event on April 24th.

Join CAIR-Chicago and other organizations as we participate in the New Americans Rally on Saturday, April 30th. This is an event that is taking place statewide and a part of the “One Nation, One Dream” Agenda.

"Far from a victory in the fight for women’s rights, France’s ban of the burqa, the head-to-toe covering worn by some Muslim women, is a red herring, a deflection, and a blow for free societies everywhere," writes Christina Abraham, CAIR-Chicago's Civil Rights Director.

Over a thousand were in attendance, underscoring the broad support CAIR-Chicago continues to receive. Take a look at a slide show of the evening and our beautiful, powerful community HERE

Civil Rights Director Christina Abraham speaks on the There Is No Spoon podcast as a panel member discussing the PATRIOT Act.

CAIR-Chicago's Communications Coordinator speaks with Fox News on how the FBI is questioning travelers from Libya in Chicago.

CAIR-Chicago's Communications Coordinator speaks to ABC News about the recent FBI questioning of Libyan visitors in Chicago.

Dr. Robert Pape will be holding a book signing at CAIR-Chicago's Annual Banquet, at 6:00 PM. Be sure to get there on time to secure a copy of Pape's insightful new book, co-authored by James K. Feldman, entitled Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop it.