| CAIR Joins Capitol Hill Panel on Islam in U.S. Politics (WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/7/08) - A representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently took part in a roundtable discussion on "Islam in American Politics" at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. CAIR's Nihad Awad joined former Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia, Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), Dalia Mogahed of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, and John Esposito, founding director of Georgetown's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the event, which was designed to "deepen the dialogue" on critical religious and political issues. Other panelists included Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners ministries and magazine, and Ari Gordon, assistant director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee. SEE ALSO: Islam and American Politics: Deepening the Dialogue
|  | |  | | CAIR Partners with '20,000 Dialogues' (WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/8/08) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group announced today that it will partner with the "20,000 Dialogues" campaign to help bring Americans of different faiths together in communities nationwide. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and 20,000 Dialogues, a project of the Unity Productions Foundation (UPF), will use films about Muslims to "stimulate discussion and promote understanding." Each local dialogue could be compared to a book club that uses video instead of a written text. Films shown to dialogue participants will include "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet," "Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain" and "Prince Among Slaves"
| | | | | CAIR Op-Ed: Beyond Race Consciousness to God We are the products of, in the words of Sen. Barack Obama, "the decency and generosity of the American people." One of us, Larry Shaw, is the son of slaves who rose to become one of the highest elected state officials and the other, Parvez Ahmed, an immigrant who came to America seeking higher education but stayed for its values. Like Obama, only in America is our story possible. And we are not alone. Despite our successes we have been at the receiving end of the post-Sept. 11, 2001, hysteria regarding the "other" in America. | | | | | | VERSE OF THE DAY | | A Greeting of Peace "When you are offered a greeting (of peace), answer with an even better greeting." The Holy Quran, 4:86 | |
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