by News 9 | News 9 | Jan 27, 2022 | In The News
OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma City Mayoral Candidate is at the center of controversy after defending past comments towards the Muslim community. Tuesday night during a debate Carol Hefner said that Islam should be eradicated from our world. Leaders within the...
by Adam Soltani | Sep 5, 2021 | Press Release
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 09/05/2021) – The Oklahoma Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today condemned the public attacks on Islam and hate rhetoric targeting Islamic School children by Oklahoma GOP Chairman John Bennett. In an almost 9 minute...
by Adam Soltani | Aug 7, 2021 | In The News
Current GOP Chairman John Bennett is no friend to religious minorities in Oklahoma, but his most recent actions go far beyond his usual repertoire of COVID conspiracies. On Friday, July 30, he posted on the official Oklahoma GOP Facebook page a picture of a yellow...
by Adam Soltani | Mar 26, 2019 | Press Release
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 3/26/19) –- The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today called on public officials to repudiate Oklahoma County Assessor Larry Stein’s anti-Muslim social media posts and to condemn Islamophobic rhetoric in...
by Bill Miston | KFOR News Channel 4 | Aug 19, 2017 | In The News
OKLAHOMA CITY – A state Muslim civil liberties group, governor and state Republican party are responding after a Facebook post by a Republican state representative equated the removal of confederate monuments after the Civil War to removing mosques after the...
