CAIR-Chicago Staff Attorney Heena Musabji, and Civil Rights Coordinator Christina Abraham, met with Charles Roth of the Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center (MIHRC), and David Berten of Competition Law Groups to discuss amendments to the class action complaint the legal team filed a couple of weeks ago.

CAIR-Chicago hosted a panel of US government representatives last Thursday at the Mosque Foundation of Bridgeview in order to explore the reasons behind the widespread delay in Citizenship Applications for members of the Muslim community.

“Thank you for an excellent program. I learned so much about your faith that was new to me - especially the history and also the revering of Mary. Congratulations on your work to establish bridges of understanding. It is the only way to bring PEACE to our world”.– B. Moody

On June 8th, CAIR-Chicago will receive at its downtown office 13 government officials and community/NGO leaders from the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao in southern Philippines (ARMM).

Dear Mr. Rehab, Thank you for organizing the tour of the Mosque Foundation during my recent trip to Chicago.

Following a particularly heinous act of attempted arson, the Islamic Center of Bloomington has invested in a new security system which hopes to increase the overall safety of the community.

CAIR-Chicago’s Employment Discrimination Project Coordinator Maaria Mozaffar successfully resolved a complaint of discrimination reported by a Muslim police officer.

CAIR-Chicago facilitated a resolution at a local university after campus police unnecessarily detained a Muslim student for several hours.

An estimated 700,000 people attended the Immigrants’ Rights march in downtown Chicago on May 1, 2006, in what has been said to be one of the largest rallies in American history.

CAIR-Chicago’s Communications Coordinator Sultan Muhammad attended the Chicago Bar Foundation’s Communications Workshop with a cross section of Illinois legal aid spokespersons and public interest law organization executives for a full day’s presentation designed to impart practical tools to improve outreach and advance the overall cause of equal access to justice.

This week CAIR-Chicago conducted a large scale mobilization effort to protect the civil rights of a Muslim-American activist.

This week CAIR-Chicago conducted a large scale mobilization effort to protect the civil rights of a Muslim-American activist.

CAIR-Chicago Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed was invited to speak on a political activism panel discussion sponsored by Community Builders in Arlington Heights on Wednesday, April 26, 2006.

CAIR-Chicago co-sponsored a public forum on torture, entitled: Torture: Immoral, Illegal and Ineffective.

CAIR-Chicago's Staff Attorney, Heena Musabji, and Employment Discrimination Project Coordinator, Maaria Mozaffar, represented a Muslim man in a private mediation session through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

CAIR-Chicago’s Employment Discrimination Project Coordinator Maaria Mozaffar represented a woman at an unemployment benefits hearing.

CAIR-Chicago Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed conducted an informational workshop on immigration reform at the Islamic Community Center of Des Plaines on Friday, April 14, 2006.

CAIR-Chicago’s Executive Director Ahmed Rehab and Civil Rights Coordinator Christina Abraham met with Deputy Superintendent Dana Starks and Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) Director Vance Henry to discuss strategies to bridge the gap between the Muslim community and Chicago Police.

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), along with many co-sponsors including CAIR-Chicago, held a community briefing session on current immigration legislation in the United States Senate at Truman College on Monday, April 10 which was also the National Day of Action for immigrant rights.

CAIR-Chicago’s Executive Director Ahmed Rehab, and Operations Coordinator Sabah Ahmed joined 200 members of the Jewish community and friends in a Passover Seder ritual at the downtown Spertus Institute last Thursday.