by Kristy Yager | City of Oklahoma City News | May 3, 2024 | In The News
Link to Laizure’s headshot The community is invited to attend a free bystander intervention training with Deputy Director of CAIR Oklahoma Veronica Laizure. The presentation, which is open to all ages, is part of Oklahoma City’s Human Rights Commission’s May meeting....
by Carla Hinton | NewsOK | Mar 18, 2019 | In The News
A metro Muslim leader said his faith community won’t cower in fear in the wake of a deadly shooting spree at two New Zealand mosques. “The precautions are always there but this will not scare us,” Imad Enchassi, senior imam of the Islamic Society of...
by William Maetzold | OKC Fox | Mar 17, 2019 | In The News
OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — A call for healing at the Islamic Center of Greater Oklahoma City on Sunday. Faith leaders gathered for a prayer vigil to remember victims of an attack at mosques in New Zealand. “An interfaith prayer vigil like this is needed,” the...
by Payton Yager | KFOR | Mar 17, 2019 | In The News
OKLAHOMA CITY – Several groups gathered at the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City to show support for the victims and their families targeted in a deadly terrorist attack in New Zealand. On Friday, a gunman opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch, New...
by Carla Hinton | NewsOK | Mar 16, 2019 | In The News
The leader of a Muslim advocacy group said he could hardly sleep because he worried about the safety of Oklahoma Muslims and whether fear would keep them from their houses of worship for Friday prayer. Adam Soltani expressed his concerns Friday at a news conference...