A.G. GancarskiFebruary 1, 2024
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Randy Fine's message legislation met with overwhelming approval Thursday.
Tag: CAIR
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 1, 2024
Associated PressMarch 3, 2021
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Sheriff's office investigates after complaint from CAIR.
Associated PressApril 5, 2017
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The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations wants an election official in Florida to cancel a presentation on Islam that he’s offering to voters and poll workers. NBC-2 first reported that Charlotte County Supervisor of Elections Paul Stamoulis will present what he calls a “history of radical Islam” Thursday night. Stamoulis told the […]
Larry GriffinJanuary 31, 2017
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Representatives from Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida announced that they were filing a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, in response to his executive orders barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country over the weekend. The lawsuit is filed from 20 plaintiffs, including CAIR Florida Chief Executive Director Hassan Shibly and other activists, lawyers […]
Mitch PerryJanuary 18, 2017
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Both of Florida’s U.S. Senators are teaming up on a bipartisan bill to push back on the growing boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The new legislation (s. 170) is an update of a bill proposed last year by West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin and former Illinois Republican Mark Kirk. It would increase […]
Mitch PerryMarch 14, 2016
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More than four hours before Donald Trump convened a town-hall meeting at the Tampa Convention Center, people held their own counter rally at MacDill Park on the Riverwalk. It’s a short distance from where the once -hyped “Trump Tower Tampa” was to be built nearly a decade ago. “Donald Trump is calling for the mass surveillance of […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 16, 2016
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(Updated)In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris in November, Florida Gov. Rick Scott joined more than two dozen other governors across the country to say he doesn’t want refugees fleeing war-torn Syria coming into his state. He also said that the federal government isn’t providing him any information about who was coming in, or where they […]
Associated PressNovember 20, 2015
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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has said that blocking potential terrorists posing as Syrian refugees from entering the U.S. is akin to handling a rabid dog. At campaign stops in Alabama on Thursday, Carson said halting Syrian resettlement in the U.S. doesn’t mean America lacks compassion. “If there’s a rabid dog running around in your […]
Mitch PerryNovember 17, 2015
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The revelation that one of the men involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris entered Europe with a Syrian passport was enough evidence to convince 23 governors (all Republican, with the exception of New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan, involved in a tight bid for re-election) yesterday to say that they don’t want the federal government to expatriate […]
Mitch PerryNovember 16, 20154min358
Rick Scott‘s request to congressional leaders that they find a way to stop the funding of several hundreds of Syrian refugees may be playing well with in some quarters on Monday, but the ACLU and the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) are blasting him over it. “In these moments of pain and escalated fear, we should […]