Ahmed in the News- WTTW Chicago Tonight: CAIR-Chicago’s Ahmed Rehab on NATO’s role in global politics April 6, 2012
- WBEZ:Chicago Muslims reassured after meeting McCarthy February 29, 2012
- ABC 7: Rehab responds to NYPD spying on Muslims, and the Chicago connection February 23, 2012
- Egyptian Revolution Anniversary: Wael Ghonim and Ahmed Rehab on WBEZ Worldview January 26, 2012
- Huffington Post: Let’s Face it: It’s the Radical Right, not Islam, that is the Greatest Threat to the American Way December 17, 2011
- WGN 720 Radio: Jonathon Brandmeier talks to Ahmed Rehab about Lowe’s All-American Muslim Controversy December 15, 2011
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Tag Archives: Islam
Local Muslim leader blasts ‘old Orientalist mindset’ about Islam
I could be wrong, but that seems to be the case when you consider the contrast of “intentional Muslim sacrilege” with the “accidental American offense.”
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Al Qaeda As We Know it Does Not Exist. Never Has.
According to insider experts, the concept of Al Qaeda as we know it – a hegemonic global hierarchal terrorist organization with a central command and a supreme commander – is a fictitious creation of the FBI and the CIA based on the witness of a single well-paid Sudanese witness who was the first to propose the name. Continue reading
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Beyond the Comfort Zone: Passion and Peril at a Pro-Christian Rally
It was a tricky decision for us. We knew that there could be anti-Muslim sentiment at the rally that would put is in a precarious position, but we decided that our disdain for the heinous acts of Al Qaeda far exceeded our concern for personal inconvenience.
We decided that the right thing for us to do was to act on our values and our sincere feelings of camaraderie with our fellow human beings in times of anguish. We wanted to raise our voices as Muslims in support of the Assyrian community and against terrorists who purport to act in the name of our faith. Continue reading
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Joy and Whoopi Walk Out On Bill O’Reilly
Bill gets it completely wrong on The View. He runs the usual line that “Muslims killed us on 9/11″ therefore Muslims cannot build a mosque near Ground Zero. In fact, Muslims did not kill us on 9/11. I didn’t kill us on 9/11. My mom didn’t kill us. My nephew didn’t kill us. Continue reading
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The Denial of Islamophobia
As such Islamophobia is just another form of bigotry – in this case, bigotry against Muslims. And like other forms of bigotry, it requires this defining ingredient for it to be bigotry: negative stereotyping or generalizing about a large group of people. Continue reading →