After the murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, NC, Chicago area Muslim organizations, including CAIR-Chicago responded to the tragedy with a press conference.

After the murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, NC, Chicago area Muslim organizations, including CAIR-Chicago responded to the tragedy with a press conference. A clip of CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab appears on Fox News's Kelly File.

The tragic murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Tuesday night has deeply saddened communities of all faiths across the nation. After mainstream media failed to give proper attention to the tragic event, social media campaigns and national advocacy efforts brought the incident into the mainstream spotlight.

Through an examination of the similarities between the WWII incarceration experience of Japanese Americans and the post-9/11 experience of the Muslim Americans, Bridging Communities builds solidarity between these two communities.

Please join CAIR-Chicago staff at Loyola University Chicago School of Law at 7pm tonight in remembering these three victims of hate.

CAIR today called on law enforcement authorities to address speculation about a possible bias motive for the killing of three young Muslims who were shot in the head yesterday in Chapel Hill, N.C.

We wish to thank you for making our 11th Annual Banquet a memorable and enjoyable evening! The feedback has been positive with some suggesting that this was one of the most diverse Muslim galas in Chicago.

We wish to thank you for making our 11th Annual Banquet a memorable and enjoyable evening! The feedback has been positive with some suggesting that this was one of the most diverse Muslim galas in Chicago.

CAIR-Chicago held its annual banquet in Oak Brook Terrace. The banquet was a chance to celebrate CAIR's achievements over the past 11 years and the diversity of the Muslim community.

A Facebook posting making threats against Muslims and targeting a Bridgeview mosque has resulted in increased police surveillance and an investigation by the FBI, according to the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Authorities said Thursday that they are investigating a series of online threats made this week against a Bridgeview mosque.

CAIR-Chicago spoke with media after a south suburban mosque received violent threats on social media.

CAIR-Chicago spoke with media after a south suburban mosque received violent threats on social media.

CAIR-Chicago spoke with media after a south suburban mosque received violent threats on social media.

CAIR-Chicago is working with local law enforcement and the FBI Chicago office on recent social media violent threats against a south suburban mosque.

Whether purposeful or unwitting — which is quite possible by the way — our disposition to the narrative of the East/West divide, the invading hordes, the clash of civilizations is a timid yet omnipresent undercurrent in mainstream consciousness.

Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says he was not necessarily “emotionally offended” by the cartoons, but he did find them to be “in poor taste.”

I am not Charlie. I am not the terrorist either. I do not have to be Charlie to loathe the terrorists, and I do not have to resort to terrorism to register my displeasure with Charlie.

Yet, whenever there’s an Islamic radical attack, those who fear Muslims anyway demand some sort of collective denouncement from them, as a body, a situation best summed up by Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations in Chicago.