by Carla Hinton | The Oklahoman | Jan 4, 2020 | In The News
Adam Soltani remembers the anti-Muslim rhetoric that seemed heightened during the 2016 presidential election. Soltani, executive director of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said his agency has created a new guidebook that was...
by Dylan Goforth | The Frontier | Oct 7, 2019 | In The News
Oklahoma’s Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training removed all references to “accreditation” from its website after a Frontier story showed the agency didn’t actually accredit the online courses it was offering to police officers seeking mandatory continuing...
by Stetson Payne | Tulsa World | Sep 6, 2019 | In The News
A Tulsa police officer was fired Wednesday morning, barely a month after graduating from the academy, after the Police Department learned of his past social media posts in support of waterboarding as an interrogation technique and expressing anti-government and...
by Lani Habrock, Government Affairs Director | Tulsa World | Jul 29, 2019 | In The News
I attended the Fort Sill protest in response to the separation and detainment of migrant children. On July 20, hundreds of people from across the nation gathered with fists raised in dissent of government policy. My mind, however, was not singularly focused. I kept...
by Kelsy Schlotthauer | Tulsa World | Jul 11, 2019 | In The News
Officials are condemning apparent hate vandalism that appeared Wednesday on a billboard advertising an ongoing Islamic art exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art. The words “HOME GROWN TERROR!” were discovered spray painted below the billboard’s...
by James Neal | Enid News & Eagle | Jun 4, 2019 | In The News
Oklahoma’s Muslim community celebrated the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan this morning with prayer services around the state, ushering in the holiday of Eid ul-Fitr with a message of peace and charity. Ramadan is the month on the Islamic lunar calendar...
