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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is under fire in a sex harassment lawsuit from former "golden child" member Lori Saroya.

Lehrer waged a successful legal battle in the 1980s against the Jonathan Club and other social organizations whose members were predominantly white, non-Jewish men.

Print The table was laden with food: a rack of lamb, well roasted and succulent. A platter of chicken over rice. A tray of tabbouleh, a bulgur salad speckled with parsley. A rainbow of watermelon, orange slices and grapes. But the first things guests reached for as they gathered at the Fejleh family’s home to break fast together on a recent Tuesday night were shriveled fruits about the size of a thumb. About 14 hours had passed without food or drink. And what they wanted most of all were ...

AP Photo/Brian Blanco Hassan Shibly, the 34-year-old former executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Florida chapter, faces a barrage of sexual harassment and assault claims, which he has denied while trying to play the victim. Many of the women who have spoken out against Shibly also charge CAIR with negligence when it comes to sexual assault claims and claim the organization is biased against women. While Shibly resigned after some of the allegations came forw...

Hassan Shibly, once the prominent head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida chapter, resigned after allegations of domestic abuse were made against him. Since then, other women have come forward with accusations of their own. Shibly has denied the allegations. Image: Chris OMeara/AP For months, stories swirled around a prominent Muslim civil rights leader, alleging secret marriages, bullying, sexual harassment. Then, late last year, some of the allegations against 34-year-old Ha...

4 hours ago by Leila Fadel (NPR) Hassan Shibly, once the prominent head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida chapter, resigned after allegations of domestic abuse were made against him. Since then, other women have come forward with accusations of their own. Shibly has denied the allegations. Image credit: Chris OMeara Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR...

how government really works and get out of this notion of the blame game and saying its all someone elses fault. >> youre listening to the commonwealth club of california radio program and our guest today is william eggers, author and commentator, who is discussing when government works and when it doesnt. . . in terms of iraq, we fell into a number of the traps that we talk about in the book. certainly, one of those traps was a syndrome. when the decision was made to go win and we wer...

hosting in march in washington an entrepreneurship summit that is going to be bringing business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs, high tech entrepreneurs from muslim countries around it is world to d.c. to engage wit their counterparts in the public sector and private sector here in the u.s. to build new partnership, to promote skills development. we have scaled up exchange programs. we are going to be sending science envoys, including prominent arab-americans a...