The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today said it is responding to a number of incidents prompted by what the Muslim civil rights and advocacy group says is a rising level of bias incidents in the United States.

“How terrible that someone would write ‘Muslims Go Home’ when they are home!” exclaimed a neighbor who helped organize a team of volunteers to support Nashville’s Muslim community after a mosque was defaced. The community’s swift response reaffirmed [ … ]

NEW YORK -  A couple of hundred Arab-Americans were given a chance to vent their anger at a town hall meeting with US federal and local officials who were told in no uncertain terms that the community felt betrayed.

Civil liberties advocates are joining Arab and Muslim American groups in expressing concern over the government's recent decision to single out travelers from more than a dozen mostly Middle Eastern countries for increased scrutiny.

I RECENTLY had a conversation with a Rutgers University law professor who was curious about my career in journalism. She was fascinated because she was not aware of many Arab and/or Muslim-American journalists working in the field. She also observed [ … ]

Haiti is experiencing unimaginable suffering from its devastating earthquake, with more than 150,000 dead and one to three million individuals displaced. Individuals, groups and governments from around the world have stepped in to do what they can. U [ … ]