by Adam Soltani | Aug 23, 2016 | Press Release
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 8/23/2016) — The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today welcomed the district attorney’s addition of hate crime charges against Stanley Vernon Majors to the original charges of first degree murder,...
by Arsalan Iftikhar | The Islamic Monthly | Aug 18, 2016 | In The News
Can you imagine if an Arab American man constantly harassed his White neighbors in Oklahoma with indefensible racial slurs like “dirty honky” or “filthy cracker” on a regular basis? Can you imagine if this same Arab American man was also found guilty of running over a...
by Arianna Pickard | Tulsa World | Aug 16, 2016 | In The News
Less than three months before a 37-year-old man was shot on his front porch Friday evening, Tulsa County prosecutors deemed the man suspected of killing him “a substantial risk to the public.” Prosecutors had attempted to keep 61-year-old Stanley Vernon Majors in jail...
by Dallas Franklin | KFOR News Channel 4 | Aug 16, 2016 | In The News
TULSA, Okla. – For years, the Jabara family says, their neighbor terrorized them. He called them names — “dirty Arabs,” “filthy Lebanese,” they said. He hurled racial epithets at those who came to work on their lawns, they alleged. He ran Haifa Jabara over with his...
by Carla Hinton | News OK | Aug 15, 2016 | In The News
Vandals recently targeted a Muslim-owned grocery store with anti-Muslim sentiments and derogatory slurs aimed at a prominent metro Muslim leader and several Muslim organizations. Saad Mohammed, director of Islamic news and information for the Islamic Society of...