Press Releases
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 2/17/12)- Today Oklahoma's Middle Eastern and Muslim Community mourned the loss of a hometown hero, and award-winning New York Times writer, Anthony Shadid. The New York Times reported yesterday that Shadid died of an extreme asthma attack, while secretly reporting in Syria.
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Court says warrantless monitoring violates Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
(SAN FRANCISCO, CA 1/23/12)- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's leading Muslim civil liberties organization, today applauded a unanimous ruling by the U.S....
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 1/10/2012)- The Oklahoma Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today welcomed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upholding a lower court deci...
(WASHINGTON D.C., 12/31/2011) - A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization said tonight that it is "deeply troubled" that the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was signed in...
Action Alerts
Last week, CAIR-Oklahoma asked people to contact their member of Congress and urge them to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, H.R. 1540), which authorizes the U.S. military to arrest and detain indefinitely without charge or trial, American citizens suspected of terrorism. Un...
Last Thursday, CAIR released a statement exposing the effort by anti-Muslim hate groups to pressure American corporations to drop their advertisements from TLC's newest reality show All-American Muslim.
One of those corporations, Lowe's Home Improvement, submitted to the demands of these anti-M...
(Oklahoma City, OK 9/21/11) - In a recent report by Wired.com, leaked FBI documents revealed the use of biased, inaccurate, and bigoted training materials about Muslims and counter-terrorism. The trainer hired by the FBI told officers that the Prophet Muhammad was a "cult leader" and that the Islami...
(WASHINGTON D.C., 9/19/2011) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is urging American Muslims and other people of conscience to call members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about proposed legislation that singles out American Muslims for additionalscr...
