Cair-La Says Jewish Group Endangers Muslim Students; Islamic Civil Rights Group Says Ajc Smears Islamic Declaration of Faith
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ANAHEIM, Calif., June 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR- LA) said today that a prominent national Jewish organization has endangered the lives of Muslim students at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) by spreading false rumors about a stole the students plan to wear at graduation ceremonies.
The Orange County Register newspaper today reported that the American Jewish Congress (AJC) is one of the groups falsely claiming that the Muslim students will wear stoles at graduation indicating their alleged support for terrorism. As the paper reports, the stoles actually say in Arabic: "God, increase my knowledge" and the "shahada." The "shahada" is the Islamic declaration of faith repeated daily by all observant Muslims, which states: "There is no God but God; Muhammad is the Messenger of God."See the full content of this document
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Cair-La Says Jewish Group Endangers Muslim Students; Islamic Civil Rights Group Says Ajc Smears Islamic Declaration of Faith
SEE: "GRADUATION STOLE RAISES TENSIONS" http:// www.ocregister.com/ocr/2004/06/18/sections/local/loca...
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