by Perris Jones | KOCO News 5 | Apr 13, 2021 | In The News
Oklahoma Democratic leaders and some in the Muslim community have called out the Oklahoma GOP after former state lawmaker John Bennett was elected as chairman. Bennett has faced backlash from negative comments directed toward Muslims made in recent years. “Who you...
by Matt Trotter | Public Radio Tulsa | Apr 13, 2021 | In The News
The Oklahoma Democratic Party and state chapter of a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group strongly disapprove of the Oklahoma Republican Party’s new leader. Former state representative John Bennett was elected state GOP chair this weekend. As a lawmaker, he referred...
by Janelle Stecklein, CNHI State Reporter | Stillwater News Press | Mar 29, 2021 | In The News
OKLAHOMA CITY — Four years after being barred from giving a routine legislative prayer, Imad Enchassi stood before Senate lawmakers, making history. He is believed to be the first Muslim imam to give the daily legislative invocation before the full state Senate. But...
by Reese Gorman | Norman Transcript | Mar 25, 2021 | In The News
OKLAHOMA CITY —Hundreds of people filled a church in Wednesday to hold a candlelight vigil, honoring the six Asian-American women who were killed by a man fueled by racism in Atlanta last week. On March 16, a gunman took the lives of eight people, six of whom were...
by Carla Hinton | The Oklahoman | Mar 18, 2021 | In The News
“Muslim Day at the Capitol” will be virtual this year. The Council on American-Islamic Relations-Oklahoma chapter will host the seventh annual event beginning at 6 p.m. Friday via Facebook Live. The event will include a keynote address by Abrar Omeish, an...
by Dylan Goforth | The Frontier | Feb 19, 2021 | In The News
The Oklahoma Second Amendment Association, a nonprofit that bills itself as “the state’s leading advocate for Second Amendment rights,” has endorsed for state Republican Party chairman a controversial former state lawmaker who drew the ire of Muslim groups when he...
