Chicago -- In "U.S. will survive one hand on Koran" (Commentary, Dec. 13), columnist Kathleen Parker opted to endorse Dennis Prager, a popular talk-show host and columnist, who has widely been identified from all sides as intolerant and a bigot.

The Muhammad Salah trial is in its final days, please attend to show your support for due process, anti-torture, and just application of the law. This case marks the first where an American court has allowed the prosecution of an American citizen based on an admission obtained under torture in a foreign country and in a language the defendant does not understand.

I am disappointed that the Chicago-Tribune chose to print Victor Hanson's "Why the Rise of Radical Islam?" Hanson's commentary is characterized by selective slicing of history and simplistic suggestions for solutions to the problem of a global rise in extremism.

CAIR-Chicago is co-sponsoring a blood drive this Thursday, December 21st, at the Downtown Islamic Center.

It is hard to understand why there is a growing editorial tendency toward willful ignorance and Islamophobic extremism. It is growing at the expense of intellectual honesty and moral reason.

The Muhammad Salah trial is open to the public. Your courtroom attendance is encouraged.

A Muslim couple who had both been delayed in obtaining citizenship was naturalized in federal court.

Details: The Springfield Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with the endorsement of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) – Illinois is holding a “Town Hall” Meeting in Peoria, Illinois, for the IL Muslim Community on Saturday, December 9, 2006.

The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) today issued a statement in reaction to the arrest of a 22-year-old Rockford man accused of plotting to set off grenades in a local shopping mall.

The Muhammad Salah trial is open to the public. Your courtroom attendance is encouraged.

Of all the shameless, intolerant, and divisive rants I have come across on the far-right blogosphere this year – and I have come across plenty – Dennis Prager's recent Bible-thumping, Ellison-Bashing diatribe takes the cake.

ANTI-MUSLIM racism was on full display last month when six Muslim religious leaders were thrown off a US Airways flight in Minneapolis. Their crime? The imams were first deemed "suspicious" for observing their evening prayers in the airport, prior to boarding the flight.