The Chicago chapter of CAIR joined with local mosques and Lifeforce health Institute of Chicago to sponsor a special blood drive in the Downtown Islamic Center.

A Chicago medical van driver accused by the government of providing money to Hamas terrorists was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in federal prison for lying under oath in a civil lawsuit.

In a case that riveted Chicago's Muslim community, a Bridgeview businessman accused of aiding terrorists was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in prison for lying in a civil lawsuit.

CAIR-Chicago Jordanian client discusses his 6 year citizenshipdelay and CAIR-Chicago Executive Director, Ahmed Rehab, discusses the citizenship delay of Muslims

Commenting on the recent Glasgow Airport attack, CAIR-Chicago Executive Director, Ahmed Rehab, condemns terrorism and fears backlash against Muslims.

Three Chicago Muslims, including CAIR-Chicago intern Whitney Nickels, discuss their conversion to Islam.

Every day newspapers, TV shows, radio programs, new books and lectures revolve around the topic of the ‘threat’ of Islam and its relation to the West. Islam has become a commodity, a business to be exploited. The list of super stars and ‘experts’ that are part of this Hollywood-esque movement of cashing in on Islam has become quite long; at the head of the list are Quasi Muslims such as Brigiette Gabriel, Walid Shoebat, Nonie Darwish, and Ibn Warraq.

Delays in the citizenship process caused a spike in civil rights complaints by Muslims in Illinois last year, a civil liberties group reported Tuesday.

There have been a significant jump in civil rights complaints filed by Muslim-Americans. That's the result of a report called "Presumption of Guilt." It was released in Chicago today by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.

The number of civil rights complaints filed by Muslim-Americans increased by about 40 percent in Illinois last year, according to a report released today by a national Islamic civil liberties group.

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - For Mahamed Jama, a Minnesota taxi driver, the Islamic restriction on drinking alcohol is a seamless rule for life. "He who carries alcohol, he who drinks and he who sells it are the same thing," he says.

That belief could affect his livelihood.

Eboo Patel ‘96 LAS has the radical idea that people from other religions shouldn’t kill each other. “Why are religious extremists getting to young people before we do?” he asked. “Why don’t we build a different pattern, a pattern of religious pluralism?”

While most Muslim Americans overwhelmingly condemn suicide bombings and other forms of Islamic extremism, according to an unprecedented poll unveiled today, 13 percent of Muslim youth endorse suicide bombings as an acceptable way to defend their religion in certain circumstances.

WASHINGTON--History has shown on more than one occasion that what might be clear to most of us may not seem so obvious to the Bush administration.

Ever wonder why some restaurants on Devon Avenue are BYOB and others balk when you pull out a bottle?

Is it possible for Muslim Americans to criticize our administration's neoconservative foreign policies, our government's complicit role in Israel's illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, or our domestic breaches of civil liberties, and not be branded as "apologists for terror?"

On the eve of a critical month for immigration issues, activists plan a wave of marches, unity vigils and lobbying to try to sway Congressional support for reform this year.

Islamic home lending is a thriving business at the few U.S. banks offering Shariah-compliant, no-interestfinancing.

JOLIET -- A local forum will seek to address violence in today's world by giving representatives to the three monotheistic religions of the Old Testament an opportunity to discuss their religion and answer questions from the audience.

Here is an interesting point to ponder: What if Don Imus had referred to a mostly white women's basketball team as "dumb blond hos." Would it have been any less racist or sexist than the comment he used against a mostly black team?