by Lani Habrock, CAIR-OK Government Affairs Director | Sep 26, 2018 | Blog
Somber and defiant, a thirteen-foot Native American woman clad in bronze stands with her back to the Oklahoma State Capitol. She is a monument placed in tribute to the resilience of the Native American people. But today she stands in irony. A symbol of lip service...
by Trevor Brown | Oklahoma Watch | Mar 22, 2018 | In The News
John Whitfield was just a mile or two away from his home in northeast Oklahoma City when he noticed police lights in his rear-view mirror during a spring night in 2016. Whitfield, who is black, said he didn’t think he was speeding or had committed any other traffic...
by Michaela Flonard | TU Collegian | Feb 29, 2016 | In The News
Last week, U.S. Army reservist Raja’ee Fatihah visited the the Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gun Range in Oktaha, OK. This range recently made news for its “No Muslims” sign. Fatihah, a Muslim and member of Muslim advocacy group Council on American-Islamic...
by Raja'ee Fatihah | Huffington Post | Feb 19, 2016 | In The News
When I joined the service five years ago, I did so knowing that I am blessed to be born in America. As Americans, we are afforded an amount of physical, economic, and political stability that seems a rarity in today’s world. Surely, as a Muslim American, all it takes...
by Libby Nelson | Vox | Feb 19, 2016 | In The News
The man who walked into an Oklahoma gun range was a former officer with a campus police department, and an Army reservist. But once he mentioned to the gun range owners he was Muslim, Raja’ee Fatihah was accused of waging jihad and planning murder, then asked to...
