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Asalamu Allaikum,
CAIR has received a report that an anti-Islam book has been found in a Broward County Public School Library. The title of this book is "Islam and Terrorism" authored by Mark A. Gabriel a well know anti-Islam pundit that self proclaims scholarly knowledge of the Quran.
This book contains dozens of xenophobic statements and inaccurate information regarding the Quran and teachings of the Prophet Mohammed. We have submitted a formal complaint to the Broward County Public School System and requested information through the Freedom of Information Act.
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MIAMI, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Representatives of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) and the South Florida Muslim community met Monday with U.S. Attorney Wilfredo A. Ferrer, Assistant U.S. Attorney Norman Heming and an FBI official to discuss issues of mutual concern, including civil rights and school bullying.
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When members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) randomly posted fake eviction notices on about 200 dorm room doors at Florida Atlantic University on March 30, 2012, they thought they were teaching fellow students about Israel’s practice of evicting Palestinian families and demolishing their homes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in violation of international law. But their action was soon the subject of an altogether different lesson. The students learned that the University was willing to bow to pressure from the campus Hillel chapter and outside organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Zionist Organization of America,1 by opening an investigation into their peaceful action, which had been officially authorized and accompanied by University housing authorities.
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(South Florida, FL, 1/31/2012) –- The South Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFL) today submitted a complaint to the Florida Commission on Human Rights on behalf of a Muslim woman that was allegedly denied service at a Boca Raton Chevron gas station because of her religious attire.
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On Saturday December 10th 2011, CAIR-FL took part in its quarterly Adopt-A-Street clean up event. It is a program designed to empower volunteerism in the community while keeping our neighborhoods litter-free one street at a time.
With the help of volunteers CAIR FL picked up about 45 lbs of garbage from our adopted street located on College Avenue between Nova Drive and SW 39th Avenue in Davie Florida.
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(South Florida 10/17/2011) – The South Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida (CAIR FL) distributed food to the homeless on Saturday October 15th, 2011 with the Ft. Lauderdale Chapter of Project Downtown.
Project Downtown is an initiative that began with a few students that were dissatisfied with the plight of homeless and needy individuals in cities across the nation, dissatisfied with the blind eye that society has turned toward them, and dissatisfied to their own non-contribution to the betterment of their own communities.
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May Allah SWT forgive our sins and shower mercy and blessings on us! Ameen.
Have a fantastic Eid and enjoy your families.
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Quran 2; 183-185
"O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint...Ramadan is the (month) in which was sent down the Quran, as a guide to mankind, also clear (Signs) for guidance and judgment (between right and wrong). So every one of you who is present (at his home) during that month should spend it in fasting..."
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The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who have warned for years about the threat from Islam, lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them, as well as copying multiple passages from the tract of the Unabomber.
In the document he posted online, Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of bombing government buildings and killing scores of young people at a Labor Party camp, showed that he had closely followed the acrimonious American debate over Islam.
His manifesto, which denounced Norwegian politicians as failing to defend the country from Islamic influence, quoted Robert Spencer, who operates the Jihad Watch Web site, 64 times, and cited other Western writers who shared his view that Muslim immigrants pose a grave danger to Western culture.
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International Day of Peace was a resolution created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981 to remind and call all people, organizations and nations to practice acts of peace on the same day. In September 1999 Jeremy Gilley the founder and chairman of Peace One Day founded the film project Peace One Day to document efforts to create an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date. In 2001, Peace One Day achieved its primary objective. United Nations General Assembly resolution (A/Res/55/282) was unanimously adopted by UN member states, formally establishing an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace, fixed in the global calendar on 21st September to commemorate and strengthen the ideals of peace.
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You can’t turn on the news these days or pick up a newspaper without seeing or reading about Islam, Muslims or Sharia law. Unfortunately, most of what you hear is from politicians with a religious viewpoint or media outlets creating an illusion of an enemy.
They sensationalize Arabic words to feed on society’s fear. The hottest topic these days is the Sharia. They claim that “Moozlims” are trying to replace the U.S. Constitution with the Sharia. Before we all run out with pitchforks and protest signs, let’s understand what Islam is, and then we can understand the Sharia.
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Adopt-A-Street is the collaboration between Broward County, participating cities and their residents. Groups such as CAIR-FL agree to adopt half a mile or more of a street in Broward County and remove the litter four times per year for two years. Cleanups are completed on a quarterly basis. The County provides organizational help, cleanup supplies, free disposal, and Adopt-A-Street signs with your group's name displayed.
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Fort Lauderdale, FL 2/23/11)- The Executive Director of the South Florida Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL) asked Congressman Allen West at his Town Hall meeting on February 21,2011, to show him where the Quran gives instruction to attack America or Kill innocent people. Please view link below!
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CAIR Florida has launched its training series for the Muslim community. We are training all of our fellow Muslims on Civil Rights, How to Protect Them, Our Freedom to Practice Islam, and Raising our Children in America!
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As-salaamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu,
My fellow Muslims, I am very happy to be back home in South Florida, How the life has changed for us as a community over the last 30 years. South Florida has one of the most diverse Muslim communities in the United States. We have Muslims from all corners of the world that have emigrated here to make this home.
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(MIAMI, FL, 4/16/10) -- Council on American-Islamic Relations South Florida (CAIR-SFL) today announced that Miami-Dade Transit is dropping bus advertisements sponsored by an anti-Islam hate group. CAIR-South Florida commends the bus company's rejection of the group's misleading and bigoted bus ads.
TAKE ACTION: Thank the Miami-Dade Transit. Email: Karla Damian, kdamian@miamidade.gov
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(MIAMI, FL, 7/2/09) – The south Florida chapter
of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR-Miami) today called on the FBI to
investigate a possible bias motive for vandalism at mosque in that state.
Vandals smashed two windows of the Islamic School
of Miami this past weekend but the vandalism was
only discovered on Tuesday because the windows
were in a storage area. Six months ago, the same
mosque’s windows were shattered and its golden
dome damaged by a hail of gunfire. In 2005, a
large rock was used shatter the door of the
mosque. In 2004, the mosque’s sign was defaced with a Nazi swastika.
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Many of you by now are familiar with the Bus Ad Campaign. This campaign will run in both Dade and Broward Counties for duration of eight (8) weeks starting November 24th, 2008. The counties' transit system buses will display large, beautiful and colorful banners about Islam on the side of 120 buses, inviting fellow Americans to call in and log on to a website to find the real truth about Islam and Muslims.
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