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Concerns relating to litigation about religious discrimination have some American employers taking steps to make the workplace more Muslim-friendly, Bloomberg News reports. Anything from establishing prayer rooms to having office parties sans alcohol are just some of the things U.S. companies are doing out of deference for their Muslim employees. “The atmosphere is so toxic now that even having constitutionally protected religious accommodation in the workplace can somehow be controversial,” Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told Bloomberg. CAIR filed complaints on behalf of Muslims whose jobs were terminated last January at a meat-packing plant...

Western policymakers need to "undertake a systematic study" of Islamic theology and law before they can understand the goals and motives of terrorists who are working to subjugate or convert non-Muslim populations, a scholar on Islam told a gathering in Washington on Tuesday. It would be a mistake to assume that Islam has been "hijacked," argued Robert Spencer, the author of a recent book on the prophet of Islam, Mohammed. Terrorists and extremists targeting American interests today are making use of the actual text in the Koran and the teachings of their prophet, he said.... "It is untrue that jihadists...

CAIR's Ibrahim Cooper, hung up on Mike Gallagher http://mikeonline.com on his show today when Mike asked him: Do (mainstream?) Muslims like you believe that Israel (even) has a right to exist? This was after this CAIR guy bashed Israel and calling it a "terrorist" for going after "civilian" infrastructure in Lebanon. [BTW, Would Israel copy the Muslims & (start to) go after civilian population intentionallly, just How many Arabs would then survive?] Mike: Do you agree that Hezbullah is a terror organization? Ibrahim: Yes, but... Mike: Did Hezbullah intiated the fight? Ibrahim: Yes, but... it was a "response" to "Palestinian"...

Fox News Channel is the most biased major media outlet toward Muslims, Ibrahim Hooper, communications director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told this website. His group is asking members to contact FNC CEO Roger Ailes to express concern over the purported anti-Islam bias. Hooper, who gets copies of the e-mails sent to Fox, said the network station has received thousands of complaints. Hooper cited the recent Florida "terror scare" as part of Fox's inflammatory reporting. While CNN's Larry King was pretty even-handed in interviewing the suspected terrorists, a Fox interviewee demanded they take a Fox-paid lie detector test, according...