WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2012 – AIC joined the Armenian National Committee of American (ACNA) along with 120 other human rights, faith-based, public interest, and ethnic organizations in calling for decisive UN action to press Sudan to allow humanitarian access to the Sudanese states of South Kurdofan and Blue Nile, as well as Darfur. Read the…
Read MoreNEW YORK, September 26, 2012 – A controversial ad campaign funded by conservative blogger Pamela Geller that many see as offensive to Muslims, has prompted some New Yorkers to reject the ads. Stickers reading “RACIST” and “HATE SPEECH” have appeared on some of the ads, which are posted on MTA subway trains and stations. The…
Read MoreWASHINGTON, September 24, 2012 — The American Islamic Congress (AIC) is leading a multi-faith coaltion of scholars, human rights organizations and religious organizations to call on Congress to pass Senate Bill 1245, which would create a Special Envoy for religious minorities in South Central Asia and Near East at the United States Department of State.…
Read MoreIN THIS ISSUE: AIC responds to embassy attacks, annual Project Nur conference, celebration in Boston. Click here to read the newsletter.
Read MoreWASHINGTON, September 24, 2012 – Project Nur, the student-led initiative of the American Islamic Congress (AIC), hosted its 6th Annual Student Leadership Conference this past weekend in the nation’s capital. Fifty-four students from 30 Project Nur chapters across the country attended the three-day leadership training conference. “The conference is intended to bring together engaged and…
Read MoreToday I am an angry Arab Muslim woman — outraged, as a person of conscience, over the attacks on American embassies and the murder of a talented diplomat who represented me. After the 2005 cartoon riots, no one should be surprised by Muslim fanatics’ irrational violence. Yet seeing history repeated — not as farce but…
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Sep. 24, 2012 – AIC has joined a group of scholars and human rights organizations in calling for Congress to pass Senate Bill 1245, which would create a Special Envoy for religious minorities in South Central Asia and the Near East at the United States Department of State. The creation of the Special Envoy…
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2012 – The outrage and violence over the crude film ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad that inspired the attacks and protests on U.S. embassies across the Middle East points to a chasm between Western free speech and individualism and the sensitivities of some Muslims over what they see as a campaign of humiliation.…
Read MoreNEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2012 – American Muslim organizations including AIC have come out against ads sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI), headed by conservative blogger Pamela Geller, denouncing them for their Islamophobic nature while also standing by the American right to speak one’s mind. “First and foremost, we support freedom of speech…
Read MoreIn the one-year period ending in mid-2010, 75 percent of the world’s population lived in a nation with high or very high restrictions on religious beliefs or practices, according to the study conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. The increasingly hostile climate doesn’t come as a surprise to John Pinna, director…
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