by Adam Soltani | Good Faith Media | Jun 17, 2021 | In The News
I was born in 1983, raised in the shadow of the Iranian hostage crisis by an Iranian Shia Muslim father and a white Catholic American mother – unique circumstances in the Kansas town of my early childhood. For much of my life, as an adolescent and a young adult, I...
by Joshua Davis, CAIR-OK Government Affairs Intern | Jun 11, 2021 | Blog
I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have spent this spring as a government affairs intern for CAIR throughout the legislative session. The experience was not only rewarding for my professional aspirations but also deeply personal. I wanted to be an...
by Adam Soltani | Jun 2, 2021 | Press Release
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 6/2/2021) — Today the Oklahoma Chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) announced a new report on U.S. mosques that shows a 31 percent increase in the number of Muslim houses of worship nationwide since 2010. [NOTE: CAIR is one of...
by Rima Abdelkader | NBC News | Jun 1, 2021 | In The News
An Oklahoma City imam highlighted interfaith unity in his community after a teenage girl, who identified as Jewish, asked him at his mosque to donate her babysitting money to help Palestinians. The imam, Imad Enchassi, said he was working outside his mosque last week...
by Adam Soltani | May 31, 2021 | Blog
It has been a long and eventful 2021 legislative session. Many important bills affecting minorities passed through the legislature on partisan lines. It’s difficult to have fair policy making with a super majority on either side. As I watched far-leaning agendas...
