(Clarion) The Alavi Foundation is an Iranian front group that funds mosques and educational institutions in the U.S. and Canada. In 2009, federal prosecutors charged that the Alavi Foundation was a front group for the Iranian government and violated U.S. law by […]
(SD Union-Tribune) Three retired generals have issued a letter to voters in Rep. Duncan Hunter’s congressional district claiming that his challenger — Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar — is a national security risk. The claim, circulated by the Hunter campaign, was immediately denied by […]
(Breitbart) Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar referred to his Palestinian terrorist grandfather, Muhammad Yousef al-Najjar, as a “legend” in an Instagram post in 2015 — though he told the media earlier his year he condemns his grandfather’s actions. Muhammad Yousef al-Najjar, also known as Abu […]
(NY Times) In this congressional district just east of San Diego, a Christian Democrat, Ammar Campa-Najjar, has been portrayed by his Republican opponent as an Islamic terrorist sympathizer. The same allegation has been tossed at Democratic candidates in Ohio and New Jersey, […]
(Arab American News) With less than a month until the 2018 midterm elections, the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) released a “California Voter Guide,” which offers resources to assist California Muslims and allies as they prepare to vote […]
(Breitbart) Democratic congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar spent the early hours of Thursday morning defending his campaign’s 2017 donation to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the contributions he has received from CAIR officials. Campa-Najjar is running in California’s 50th congressional district […]
(Hill) A California Democrat hit back at President Trump’s eldest son on Thursday after Donald Trump Jr. accused the candidate of links to extremist groups through the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights group. Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Democrat running […]
(Breitbart) The campaign of Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, who is running against incumbent Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr. (R-CA) in California’s 50th congressional district, donated $650 to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in 2017, public records show. As Breitbart News has noted: […]
(Times of San Diego) A new 30-second commercial, appearing on Rep. Duncan Hunter’s YouTube channel and shared via Twitter, depicts his Democratic opponent as a security risk bankrolled by the Muslim Brotherhood. “Ammar Campa-Najjar is working to infiltrate Congress,” the narrator says. […]
(LA Times) U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, the Alpine Republican fighting charges of misusing campaign funds, appeared to suggest in a speech to a women’s group that his election opponent is a “radical Muslim” and part of an attempt by Islamists to infiltrate […]
(SD Union-Tribune) A federal judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by parents to shut down San Diego Unified School District’s anti-Islamophobia efforts, saying that they could not prove that the district’s program was unconstitutional and favored Islam over other religions. While Tuesday’s […]
(Times of San Diego) Attorney General Jeff Sessions “better” be fired after the November election. Rod Rosenstein, his apparent lame-duck deputy, has been part of a “coup” since before Donald Trump’s election. The president’s border wall has “nothing to do with illegal […]
(AP) The head covering is among the most identifiable elements of Muslim women’s dress and most likely to be portrayed as drab and restrictive to the Western eye. But a new exhibition in San Francisco shows that the covering used by some […]
(IPT) A recent report on Islamophobia published by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) appears to affirm its common cause with a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) effort to change public school curricula and staff training in the name of stopping Islamophobia. […]
(LA Times) For nearly 40 years, voters in eastern San Diego County have picked a Republican named Duncan Hunter to be their representative in Congress. Duncan Lee Hunter came first, and then his son and current Congressman Duncan Duane Hunter. Could 2018 […]
(Hill) A report from the Council [on] American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) showed “anti-Muslim bias incidents” in California surged 82 percent in 2017, during President Trump’s first year in office. The report from CAIR California says the group received complaints of 2,259 “anti-Muslim bias incidents” last year, […]
(IPT) Two of the American Muslim community’s most notable anti-Semites recently teamed up for an online fundraiser benefiting the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) San Francisco chapter and a group called MPower Change. Despite claiming to be advocates for the Palestinian cause, […]
(Courthouse News) A federal judge Tuesday considered whether a bullying policy aimed at fighting Islamophobia at one of the largest school districts in California violates the civil rights of students of other faiths. U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant heard arguments about whether […]
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