[Peace-discuss] Fwd: ILM: CAIR-NET: Explosion Destroys Illinois Muslim Family's Van

Tue Mar 25 00:16:16 CST 2003

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>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:55:09 -0800 (PST)
>From: Irfan Ahmad <irfanfromcimic at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Fwd: ILM: CAIR-NET: Explosion Destroys Illinois Muslim Family's Van
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>From: CAIR
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>To: cair-net at cair.biglist.com
>Subject: CAIR-NET: Explosion Destroys Illinois Muslim Family's Van
>Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:18:59 -0500
>In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
>- NEWS CONFERENCE -
>EXPLOSIVE DEVICE DESTROYS ILLINOIS MUSLIM FAMILY'S VAN
>CAIR offers reward for info about possible war-related hate crime
>(WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/24/2003) - The Council on American-Islamic 
>Relations (CAIR) will hold a news conference today to call on 
>federal authorities to treat an explosion in a Chicago-area Muslim 
>family's van as a possible war-related hate crime. The 
>Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group will also 
>announce the offer of a reward for information leading to the 
>apprehension and conviction of the perpetrators.
>WHEN: Monday, March 24, 2:30 p.m. (Central)
>WHERE: Outside the Burbank Police Department, 5650 West 75th Place, 
>Burbank, Illinois
>CAIR has learned that a "Class B" explosive device was thrown into 
>the van of the Burbank, Ill., Palestinian Muslim family at about 11 
>p.m. on Saturday, March 22. (Class B explosives are used in 
>commercial-grade fireworks.) According to the family, the van's door 
>was blown off, shattered glass was thrown up to 30 feet away and a 
>hole was punched in the vehicle's floor. They believe the incident 
>is related to the ongoing war with Iraq. Family members say they 
>also experienced hostility from neighbors following the 9/11 
>terrorist attacks.
>"This incident could have resulted in serious injury or even loss of 
>life. Local and national law enforcement authorities must treat this 
>crime with the seriousness that it deserves in order to reassure the 
>American Muslim community that these types of attacks will not be 
>tolerated. International events should never be allowed to divide 
>our nation along religious or ethnic lines," said CAIR-Chicago 
>Executive Director Omar Haydar.
>He said CAIR is offering a $2000 reward for information that results 
>in the perpetrators being brought to justice. Haydar noted that his 
>group recently distributed a "Community Safety Kit" to help protect 
>Muslims in North America during the war with Iraq. SEE: 
>http://www.cair-net.org/safetykit
>A number of similar incidents have been reported recently across the 
>United States. CAIR attributes these incidents to the pro-war 
>rhetoric leading up to the attack on Iraq, coupled with existing 
>levels of anti-Muslim bias in American society.
>In other Illinois incidents, an Evanston resident received a mailed 
>death threat, a Glendale Heights Islamic center received a phoned 
>bomb threat and projectiles were fired at a mosque in Villa Park. In 
>California, four Muslim women from the northern part of that state 
>visiting a Venice restaurant on Sunday say they were verbally 
>assaulted by another patron who made references to raping Muslim 
>women and threatened them with physical assault. Death threats were 
>made against Muslim students at San Jose State University in 
>Northern California. In Michigan, a Muslim father and son report 
>that they were refused service at a Meijer store in Fraser, Mich.
>Physical assaults against Muslims have been reported in Northern 
>California, Southern California, Georgia, New Jersey, and South 
>Carolina. One incident in Yorba Linda, Calif., left a Muslim 
>teenager badly beaten by a group that allegedly included white 
>supremacists.
>CAIR is America's largest Islamic civil liberties group. It is 
>headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has 16 regional offices 
>nationwide and in Canada. Since its founding in 1994, CAIR has 
>defended the civil and religious rights of all Americans.
>- END -
>CONTACT: CAIR-Chicago, Omar Haydar, 312-922-4720, 312-735-3662; 
>CAIR-National, Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-MAIL: 
>cair at cair-net.org; Ms. Hodan Hassan, 202-488-8787 or 202-439-1441, 
>E-MAIL: hhassan at cair-net.org
>NOTE: CAIR offers an e-mail list designed to be a window to the 
>American Muslim community. Subscribers to the list, called CAIR-NET, 
>receive news releases and other materials dealing with American 
>Muslim positions on issues of importance to our society.
>To SUBSCRIBE to or UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, go to: 
>http://cair.biglist.com/cair-net/
>To reach the list moderator, send a message to: cair at cair-net.org
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