Four young protesters pleaded guilty to charges from an immigration rights rally in Arlington Heights last October. Tuesday's negotiated court settlement does not settle the claim of one of the protesters that her religious rights were violated.

Tonight`s "Under the Radar" segment comes to us from Arlington Heights, Illinois. That`s where a 24-year-old Muslim woman, Rehana Khan, says police violated her religious principles by removing her head scarf after arresting her for battery, to which she later pled guilty.

Tonight`s "Under the Radar" segment comes to us from Arlington Heights, Illinois. That`s where a 24-year-old Muslim woman, Rehana Khan, says police violated her religious principles by removing her head scarf after arresting her for battery, to which she later pled guilty.

Dozens of area Muslims have placed protest calls to Arlington Heights Mayor Arlene Mulder demanding that charges against a Muslim civil rights protester be dropped after allegations were made that police ripped off the woman's headscarf during her October arrest.

In the soft-stepping months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Egyptian-born comedian Ahmed Ahmed was angry. Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate crimes had zoomed up 1,000 percent.

The trial of Rehana Khan, a Muslim girl of Pakistani-descent from Illinois who had her headscarf or hijab ripped off after she and several others were arrested for civil disobedience while protesting at a rally for immigrant rights last year, has finally been scheduled for April 25.

NEW YORK, April 23: The trial involving Rehana Khan, a Muslim girl of Pakistani-origin who had her headscarf (or hijab) ripped off after she and several others were arrested for civil disobedience while protesting at a rally for immigrants’ rights last year, has been scheduled for April 25.

The trial involving Rehana Khan, a Muslim girl of Pakistani-descent who had her headscarf (hijab) ripped off after she and several others were arrested for civil disobedience while protesting at a rally for immigrant rights last year has finally been scheduled next week.

"...CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab says if the US were to go into Iran it would only destabilize an already volatile region..

Born in Belarus and raised in Buffalo Grove, surrounded by Jewish immigrants like himself, Jacob Katz grew up knowing little of Islam and less of Muslims.

-- Ahmed Rehab says members of the organization went to Iraq in January and held press conferences to plead for Carroll's realease even though they never met her:

A fifth member has resigned from the state's anti-discrimination panel amid controversy surrounding a fellow commissioner who is a Nation of Islam official.

RIGHT-WINGERS tried to fan the flames of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate at the University of California-Irvine (UCI) on February 28, sponsoring a meeting titled “Unveiling the Cartoons.”

The furor over the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, it seems to me, boils down to one thing -- freedom of expression in a world where we're never all going to agree.

CHICAGO - On the 12th floor of the federal courthouse in Chicago, a hearing is taking place in a terrorist money-laundering case that has all the intrigue of a novel, complete with Israeli agents, disguises and allegations of torture.

Why did Warner Independent Pictures pick up Albert Brooks' "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World"? "We saw the movie, and it was clear that Albert makes fun of himself and America, not anybody else," CEO Mark Gill told L.A. Times entertainment columnist Patrick Goldstein.

When Iyas Alhomouz was sworn in as a U.S.citizen at a ceremony in Chicago last week, it should have been a day of celebration.

The Danish cartoons on Prophet Mohammed have had its reverberations in the heart of the US. Immediately after the University of Illinois' student newspaper carried them, there was uproar by Muslim students, culminating in the firing of the paper's editor-in-chief and the opinions editor.

During an event co-sponsored by the Muslim Law Student Association, the Christian Legal Society and the Decalogue Society at John Marshall, Ahmed Rehab (center), communications director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, and John Marshall Professor Michael Seng (fourth from left) addressed the logical and legal aspects of the recent controversy of the publication of 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed by a Danish paper.

Seeking to dispel common misconceptions about Islam and Muslims, a Chicago-area group has hit a real vein of interest.