"In Islam, people may pray for "justice, prosperity, for the nation and its leaders," said Ahmed Rehab. "Getting people from different faiths to pray together for the common good, the good of our nation, is positive."

CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab appears as a live, in-studio guest on ABC7 News This Morning to talk to Hosea Sanders and Judy Hsu about the death of Osama bin Laden.

CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab appears as a live, in-studio guest on ABC7 News This Morning to talk to Hosea Sanders and Judy Hsu about the death of Osama bin Laden.

"I don't think anything justifies torture. We as a civilized nation should be anti-torture. Many governments in the Western world, and the world in general are against torture. We don't want to be known as the ones who are employing a Spanish Inquisition torture technique to keep ourselves safe," said Rehab.

"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.

"We've politicized 9/11, we've had costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with surges, military personnel, with trillions of dollars spent. And then at the end of the day it takes what we've been saying all along - good, hard intelligence and a committed group of surgical strikes," says Ahmed Rehab.

"I'm just waiting to see if this is going to change anything in terms of our foreign policy, our strategy in Afghanistan and the war of terror, and if it will change anything in Muslim-West relations," said Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif.

"I'm just waiting to see if this is going to change anything in terms of our foreign policy, our strategy in Afghanistan and the war of terror, and if it will change anything in Muslim-West relations," said Communications Coordinator Amina Sharif.

"We are optimistic; we are looking forward to a better day in which we can cooperate together for justice," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of CAIR-Chicago.

"We are optimistic; we are looking forward to a better day in which we can cooperate together for justice," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of CAIR-Chicago.

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.

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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.