OMAHA, Neb. - Meatpacking plant officials accused of discriminating against dozens of Somali Muslim workers have offered to tweak break times to help accommodate the workers' prayer demands.

CAIR-Chicago board member Safaa Zarzour attended the Muslim Legal Fund of America Banquet and spoke out about smear tactics being used to lump Islamic charity groups as co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation trial underway in Dallas, Texas.

There's criticism today from an American-Islamic group of the way a couple of Illinois Democrats voted in Congress last week on President Bush's proposal to allow the federal government to more easily wiretap phone calls and e-mails without a judge's warrant.

CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab discusses religious accommodations for Muslims in the workplace.

Alan talks with Rima Kapitan, an attorney who is advocating for Somali Muslim workers that were fired for praying on the job.

Writer Ahmed Rehab contemplates his role as a Muslim leader.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Supervisors at a meatpacking plant have fired or harassed dozens of Somali Muslim employees for trying to pray at sunset, violating civil rights laws, the workers and their advocates say.

Yong Zhang woke up Wednesday to her last day as a Chinese citizen. She joined 144 other immigrants for an oath ceremony at noon and surrendered her green card for a glossy certificate officially deeming her an American.

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?”