by Adam Soltani | Jul 11, 2019 | Press Release
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 7/10/2019) – The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today condemned Islamophobic graffiti that appeared on a Tulsa billboard advertisement for a local exhibition of Islamic art. On Wednesday, July 10, an unknown...
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 Angela Singleton, Guest Contributor | Jun 26, 2019 | Blog
While a relatively small but growing number of Muslims in the United States own firearms, members of the Muslim community are disproportionately impacted by gun crime. In particular, gun crime most often impacts men and minorities. The recent rise in hate crime and...
by Adam Soltani | Apr 3, 2019 | Press Release
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 4/3/19) – The Oklahoma Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today condemned recent anti-Semitic, racist, homophobic, white supremacist vandalism targeting locations in Oklahoma City and Norman including 3 locations...
by Carol Kuruvilla | Huffington Post | Jan 8, 2019 | In The News
A Muslim woman from Oklahoma said an attacker pulled her hijab and told her to “go back to [her] country” in an incident that police are now investigating as a potential hate crime. The alleged assault occurred while Jenan Ayesh, from Enid, Oklahoma, was in Dallas...
