by Veronica Laizure | NewsOK | May 6, 2019 | In The News
Monday, May 6, on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims in Oklahoma and across the world begin 30 days of abstention from food, drink and other sensual pleasures lasting from before dawn until sunset. The month is also marked by increased prayer,...
by Carla Hinton | NewsOK | May 4, 2019 | In The News
Metro area Muslims hope to share the traditions surrounding Ramadan through a series of community events planned for the coming weeks. Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, will begin for many Muslims at sunset on Sunday and end at sunset June 3, followed by the...
by Adam Soltani | Tulsa World | May 4, 2019 | In The News
In August 1958, Clara Luper and 13 other members of the NAACP Youth Council walked into Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City and ordered hamburgers and sodas. Not only were their requests refused, but because it was an all-white establishment, they were also asked to...
by Lani Habrock, Government Affairs Director | NewsOK | Mar 30, 2019 | In The News
Earlier this week, we at CAIR Oklahoma made the difficult decision to publicly call out hate speech by an Oklahoma county elected official. We did not take this decision lightly. As government affairs director of Oklahoma’s chapter of the Council on American Islamic...
by Kelly Roliard | KFOR News Channel 4 | Mar 27, 2019 | In The News
OKLAHOMA CO., Okla. – Critical comments about the Muslim community. Now, local leaders are demand a meeting with the Oklahoma County Assessor. Officials with CAIR say they don’t want County Assessor Larry Stein to lose his job, yet, but they’re tired...
by Zack Budryk | The Hill | Mar 27, 2019 | In The News
An Oklahoma official invoked Martin Luther King Jr. to defend racist and Islamophobic Facebook posts attributed to him, according to KFOR News. In 2014, in reference to unrest in Ferguson, Mo., County Assessor Larry Stein wrote, “There hasn’t been this...
