The Chicago Chapter of a prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today announced that it will hold a local press conference this Saturday to announce a major educational effort called “Explore the Life of Muhammad” as a positive response to the worldwide controversy over caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Following the Press Conference at 6:00 at the same facility, the Chicago Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations will hold an open community forum on the cartoons in conjunction with the Chicago Chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA). The Public debate and discussion will address many questions related to the controversy and the ensuing reactions around the world.

Linda Haase Cohen moved to Skokie in large part because schools were off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. So she was not happy when her district began scheduling classes on the Jewish holidays just as her daughter entered elementary school.

The editorial staff of the independent daily newspaper at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said Monday that its members were embarrassed by how the decision was made to run controversial Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad last week.

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/14/06) - Alhamdulillah (praise be to God), CAIR today called on Muslims to support a major educational effort, called "Explore the Life of Muhammad," as a positive response to the worldwide controversy over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

CAIR-Chicago’s Civil Rights Coordinator, Christina Abraham, conducted sensitivity training for the faculty of Foreman High School in Chicago, as well as a session for students confronting the stereotypes about Muslims that became widespread after 9/11.

CAIR-Chicago’s Civil Rights Department resolved a complaint filed by Muslim Women’s Outreach.

Your article title reads: "Strife with Islam key focus of Christian meeting," yet the vast majority of the article discusses other concerns of the Christian organization: of its 13 paragraphs, only four discussed Islam (but then you also have the pictures of the frowning Muslims). I find it somewhat confusing that you chose this title since it clearly states in the text: "...It notes that the Western values that have shaped Christianity "can lead to confrontation and conflict" with others ..."

What: Making Sense of the Cartoon Controversy - A Special Discussion at the University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign

CAIR-Chicago would like to thank the Chicago Community Trust (www.cct.org) for two generous grants that were awarded to CAIR-Chicago to assist in organizational and community development.

The promises of the first amendment are a critical foundation to our great nation. However, free speech is not a license for irresponsible journalism. While the Daily Illini's reprinting of the Danish Cartoons within its February 9th editorial section may not have violated our laws, the decision did violate human decency.

Dr. Assad Busool, the guest imam of a Morton Grove mosque, stood in front of the small Muslim congregation gathered for prayers Friday. Across Asia and Africa, Muslims were violently protesting against Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Dr. Assad Busool, the guest imam of a Morton Grove mosque, stood in front of the small Muslim congregation gathered for prayers Friday. Across Asia and Africa, Muslims were violently protesting against Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

CAIR-Chicago Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed participated in a series of ongoing meetings for the Governor’s Racial Profiling Taskforce.

CAIR-Chicago Governmental Relations Coordinator Sadiya Ahmed has been working with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and other member organizations to plan for the upcoming elections in Illinois as well as immigration policies.

What: Director of Communications to deliver Dominican University Talk on Islam

On Tuesday, February 14, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold a noon news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to launch a major educational effort focusing on the life and legacy of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

As a Western Muslim who fully identifies with both worlds, I have watched the Danish cartoon fiasco unravel with shock and dismay.

As an objective news agency, it is unprofessional of you to include speculative links to crimes: in this case there was a bomb, you have no further information, yet the last paragraph feeds the reader want you want them to focus on (that the crime must be linked some how to "Islamic" terrorists):

CAIR-Chicago’s Civil Rights Coordinator Christina Abraham will be a panelist at a town hall forum on the PATRIOT Act sponsored by the Chicagoland Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights and the Tenth Dems.