by Jacqueline Scott | Oklahoma Newsradio KTOK | May 28, 2014 | In The News
The recent kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian school girls by Islamic extremists is a “disgrace” to Islam, the executive director of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Thursday. “It’s absolutely something...
by CAIR-OK Staff | May 25, 2014 | Press Release
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 3/25/14) – On April 5, the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) will host its 8th Annual Awards Banquet ‘Faith in Freedom’ at the Tower Hotel. This event celebrates eight years of defending the...
by Robert Boczkiewicz | Tulsa World | May 23, 2014 | In The News
An appeals court ruled Thursday that top Tulsa police officials didn’t violate a Tulsa police officer’s rights by punishing him for disobeying an order to attend or send subordinates to an Islamic mosque event. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 against...
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...
by CAIR-OK Staff | May 22, 2014 | Press Release
(TULSA, OK, 5/22/2014) — The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today called on Jenks Public Schools to drop the use of a film promoting conspiracy theories linking Middle East groups to the 1995 Murrah Federal Building...
by Scott Kaufman | Raw Story | May 21, 2014 | In The News
The state of Oklahoma has been ordered to pay more than $300,000 to the plaintiffs who sued after the “Save Our State Amendment” banning Sharia law was overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2010. Defenders of the amendment claimed that it was intended to prevent...
by Rick Green | NewsOK | May 19, 2014 | In The News
Oklahoma will have to pay $303,333 in legal fees to plaintiffs’ attorneys who brought lawsuit against Sharia law ballot measure. The bill has come due for the state’s effort to keep international law and Sharia law out of Oklahoma courts. It wasn’t cheap. Oklahoma...
by Murphy Mitchell | Tulsa World | May 15, 2014 | In The News
She claims not to have any of the big answers, but for Lori Guevara, answers aren’t necessary to understand the feelings of fear and outrage. Guevara, who coordinated the #BringBackOurGirls rally in Tulsa on Wednesday in response to the Islamist militant group Boko...
by Adam Soltani | Oklahoma Gazette | May 14, 2014 | In The News
According to the website for the United States Senate, “Upon taking office, senators-elect must swear or affirm that they will ‘support and defend the Constitution.’” Our elected officials are not only voted upon by people within our state to represent Oklahoma but...
by Dean Obeidallah | The Daily Beast | May 12, 2014 | In The News
The Nigerian terrorist group that kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls has nothing to do with Islam, and it’s grotesquely irresponsible of the media to suggest it does. Attention members of the media: Kindly stop referring to the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram as...
