ICNA Islamic Circle of North America

Atlanta, Dec 27, 2015 – The 21st annual ICNA Southeast Convention in Atlanta once again attracted thousands of attendees confirming its status as the largest Muslim event in the region.
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Associated Press December 22, 2015
 
WASHINGTON — American Muslim leaders are planning voter registration drives and open-house days at mosques to fight a rise in anti-Muslim harassment.
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by Justin Salhani, Dec 21, 2015
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representatives from American Muslim organizations met at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Monday to announce the launch of a two-pronged approach to combat extremism in the wake of the Paris attacks and San Bernardino and the ensuing anti-Muslim rhetoric and political incitement.
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Muslim Organizations Plan Drive To Register One Million Voters, Launch ‘One America’ Outreach Initiative In Response To Anti-Muslim Bias
 
By Ismat Sarah Mangla, 12/21/15
 
A coalition of Muslim-American organizations announced three major initiatives on Monday in an effort to fight rising anti-Muslim bias, including a drive to register one million voters before the 2016 presidential election.
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Texas Muslims, along with the rest of the American Muslims, have witnessed an increase in Islamophobia in 2015 starting with the protest in Garland Community Center in January until the recent protest in front of one of the oldest mosques in DFW, Islamic Association of North Texas, just this past Saturday.
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Opening mosques to the public and a nationwide bus tour are among groups’ plans amid spike in bias attacks
 
December 21, 2015, by Wilson Dizard @willdizard
 
An alliance of U.S. Muslim groups said Monday it is launching a national bus tour and voter registration drive to respond to what it calls an alarming rise in anti-Muslim attacks that it says is driven by Islamophobia in 2016 presidential campaign rhetoric.
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“In November we will remember….”
 
F. Peter Brown, December 23, 2015
 
Donald Trump has been heavily criticized for his stance on Islam, but a recent statement by American Muslim leaders may be the strongest warning yet that the candidate has received over his proposed policies.
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By Patrick Goodenough | December 21, 2015
 
(CNSNews.com) – Leaders of several American Muslim organizations warned Donald Trump and other presidential candidates Monday that if they engage in bigotry and “Islamophobia” they will pay a political price because Muslim voters – in the words of one – will mobilize and “make sure you are out of there.”
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Brattleboro Reformer
 
We’ve come a long way since President George W. Bush’s visit to a mosque in the aftermath of the al-Qaida attacks of September 11 where he declared “Islam is peace.” A long way in the wrong direction.
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A coalition of U.S.-based Muslim groups claiming that anti-Muslim backlash is on the rise in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino hopes to register one million people to vote before the 2016 election as part of a “civic empowerment initiative.”
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ANADOLU AGENCY, WASHINGTON
 
America’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization announced Monday a new initiative which aims to increase the registration of American Muslim voters for the 2016 elections to 1 million.
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Inflammatory statements by Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump serve to propaganda interests of extremist groups like the Islamic State, leaders of the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) told Sputnik on Monday.
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A US Islamic civil rights group announced a campaign on Monday with plans to register some one million Muslim American voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election in a bid to respond to growing fears of Islamophobia around the United States.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (KUNA) — Muslim-American leaders from across the country came together Monday as part of US Coalition of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) to announce a national campaign combating Islamophobia, and described current wave as being worse than climate after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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The group held an interfaith pilgrimage promoting unity and condemning extremism.
By Jaweed Kaleem
 
Amid a spike in anti-Muslim assaults, vandalism and death threats around the country since the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino and growing sentiment against the resettlement of Muslim refugees, congregations of all faiths have scrambled to think of ways to curb the violence and call for peace.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
U.S. Muslim Leaders Announce Campaigns to Enhance National Security, Address Rising Islamophobia
 
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/21/15) — The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of leading national and local Muslim organizations, today announced major educational, outreach and civic empowerment initiatives to address growing Islamophobia in America and to enhance national security through the promotion of freedom and justice.
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Speech delivered by Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Ralph Gants at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center on December 18, 2015.
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Speech delivered by Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Ralph Gants at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center on December 18, 2015.
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Charles Billi, WTSP, December 17, 2015
 
Big, bold and eye-catching. Three billboards have gone up in the metro: The Islamic Circle of North America putting up two in Tampa, one in Pinellas. CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says there’s one goal.
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Wednesday 16 December 2015
 
New York – An initiative has been launched in the cities of Tampa and Orlando in Central Florida where billboards have been placed on key highways displaying information about Islam.
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