by Barbara Hoberock | Tulsa World | Dec 11, 2014 | In The News
The Muslim group CAIR weighs in on the Oklahoma suit. OKLAHOMA CITY — The Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving a retailer that denied employment to an Oklahoman after she wore a religious head scarf to...
by CAIR-OK Staff | Dec 10, 2014 | Press Release
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/10/14) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, which is...
by Bill Sherman | Tulsa World | Oct 3, 2014 | In The News
Oklahoma’s embattled Muslim community got some good news Thursday. The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear the case of a Muslim teenager who was denied a job six years ago at a Tulsa Abercrombie & Fitch store because her religiously mandated head covering...
by Mariah Harnish | Red Dirt Report | Jun 16, 2014 | In The News
Jenks Public Schools is facing yet another in a string of accusations alleging civil-rights violations . The claims are being brought by a group of Muslim students and their parents, a member of which has been documenting discriminatory abuses on the Jenks High School...
by Bill Sherman | Tulsa World | May 23, 2014 | In The News
An Oklahoma Muslim group asked Jenks Public Schools officials on Thursday to get rid of a film shown to a ninth-grade history class suggesting that Islamic terrorists could have been behind the Oklahoma City bombing. The History Channel film, “Conspiracy: Oklahoma...
