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October 10, 2006
CAIR blasts GOP fear mongering
The Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has accused two politicos of smear campaigning and fear mongering in separate Orange County races. Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the CAIR office based in Anaheim, cited the remarks by former California Republican Pa ... More >>
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October 25, 2007
Praying for Rain
If you're among the praying, the Council on American-Islamic Relations invites ye of any faith to join in a special prayer at the Islamic Society of Orange County in Irvine tonight at 6:30. The prayer of Salatul Istisqa is a call for rain usually offered in times of drought. "Americans of all fait ... More >>
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August 7, 2008
God Squad Blasts Congressman Royce
No one ever criticizes Congressman Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) for the things he says because no one has ever heard him speak. But he apparently sends out emails that have caught the attention of a cross-denominational group of clergy folk who today sent Royce a letter asking him to stop using the phras ... More >>
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October 21, 2008
Irvine Candidate Forum, Part 2
The mayoral candidates are covered in the previous post. Here are the council candidates: Eric Johnson: Run the city like a business. Build Great Park like a business, incrementally, so it pays for itself. More transparency and open meetings. While saying Gallinger's right to practice the Muslim fa ... More >>
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March 10, 2009
Interesting Op-Ed Pieces on FBI Informant, Toll Roads
In "Breach of Trust: FBI Wants It Both Ways," the editorial board of UC Irvine's New University student newspaper takes issue with the indictment of a Muslim resident of Tustin and the use of a controversial government informant. (Background is here and here.) The case is bound to have a chilling ef ... More >>
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March 16, 2009
Gaza's Dead Are Mourned at Interfaith Service
Participants in "Tears for Gaza -- an Interfaith Memorial Service" -- which begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Anselm of Canterbury Episcopal Church, 13091 Galway St., Garden Grove -- are asked to "dress in black as a sign of mourning over the reckless loss of human lives." A reception and fe ... More >>
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April 2, 2009
Some Muslims Support FBI's Stand Against CAIR
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has an office in Anaheim, has been in the news (and on this blog) a lot lately following official confirmation that the FBI has been spying on the Islamic Society of Irvine mosque. CAIR and the Islamic Educational Center of Oran ... More >>
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April 15, 2009
More Groups Sign Statement Damning FBI for Spying on Mosques
FBI Director Robert MuellerThe National Lawyers Guild--last seen in Clockwork four hours ago in relation to a debate it is hosting at Chapman University concerning visiting professor John Yoo signing off on torture while advising the Bush White House--is doing some signing off of its own. It's joine ... More >>
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May 19, 2009
Protocols of the Elders of Islam?
As its name suggests, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in LA is supposed to promote the kind of cultural dialog that brings people together rather than pushes them apart. So it's more than a little bit odd that the center showed a movie last weekend that has been compared to the gol ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
More Join Chapman U's Debate on John Yoo Torture Memos
Clockwork informed you yesterday about controversial law professor John Yoo being at the center of two upcoming Chapman University School of Law debates, one he is participating in and another that he is not participating in. When it comes to Saturday's "Forum on National Security, Rule of Law & ... More >>
Food
December 14, 2006
Of Hummus and Hezbollah
Good food trumps ugly Americanism at Meejana
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October 19, 2006
Best of OC, Nos. 26 to 50
From the Bowers patio to Merry's
Culture
May 25, 2006
Looking for Muslims in the Comedy World
The Ayatollahs of humor stick it to the Man
Columns
May 1, 2003
Diary of a Mad County
The Ayatollahs of humor stick it to the Man
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November 15, 2001
The Visible Invisible Man
The Ayatollahs of humor stick it to the Man
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July 6, 2009
McKinney Follows UC Irvine Speech With Israeli Detention [UPDATED, THE SEQUEL]
UPDATE: MCKINNEY IS ON HER WAY HOME, REPORTS ATLANTA-JOURNAL CONSTITUTION ...Former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia) is shown speaking at UC Irvine May 13 as part of the Muslim Student Union's controversial, three-week "Israel: The Politics of Genocide" teach-in. Here she makes the c ... More >>
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July 2, 2009
Top 5 Hate Crime Reports in June--and a [Non-]Bogus Bonus [THE RE-WRITE]
Kevin O'Grady, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League's Orange County/Long Beach office, was kind enough to email over five hate-crime reports his office received this past June, in reverse chronological order. While that format may be helpful to give readers a sense of ... More >>
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July 30, 2009
CAIR, WGA-West Seek the Next Great Muslim Hollywood Screenwriter
A shy, talented and unlucky Jewish kid from a loud, talented and obscenely prosperous family refuses to follow in his successful parents' and siblings' footsteps because he dreams of becoming a Hollywood screenwriter--and he's even completed what he knows is the script of the century.But, somehow ... More >>
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August 12, 2009
Clockwork's WGA-CAIR Dream Sequence Makes the NY Times
Writing years ago for OC Weekly--so many years ago that it was before online archiving was invented by the Druids--yours truly assumed a new identity to infiltrate the Orange County Republican Party. Part of the ruse--which is referred to online in the LA "By God" Times--involved "Matt Stanfil" s ... More >>
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August 14, 2009
CAIR, Speaker, Student Say Muslim Screenwriting Seminar "a Success"
Despite Clockwork's attempt to jest while previewing the Council on American-Islamic Relations' "Writing for Hollywood" seminar and pat its own back for getting inserted into the New York Times' coverage of the event for aspiring Muslim screenwriters (as well as some unkind reader comments to our ... More >>
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August 18, 2009
CAIR's Hussam Ayloush Makes the Media Rounds
CAIR-LA's Hussam Ayloush comes out strongly against profiling, entrapment and extremism.Nick Schou posted yesterday about the Al Jazeera news service interviewing Orange County Islamic mosque infiltrator and FBI informant Craig Monteilh of Irvine, but he is not the only local who turns up in the ... More >>
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September 11, 2009
Muslims: So Hot Right Now
Eight years to the day after the 9/11 attacks, things have not gotten much better for our Muslim friends and neighbors. Earlier this week, the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a new report with som ... More >>
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October 8, 2009
Anaheim CAIR Office Condemns Neo-Nazis Harassing Jews, Joins Riverside Counter-Protest
The Anaheim-based Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) is jumping into the controversy involving neo-Nazis harassing worshipers at a Jewish synagogue in Riverside.As the Riverside Press-Enterprise reports, more than 20 organizations, including CAI ... More >>
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September 29, 2009
Controversial Danish Cartoons Are Better Read, Heard, Not Seen
On The Politics of Culture from 2:30 to 3 p.m. today on KCRW (89.9 FM), host Jonathan Kirsch talks with religious scholars and others about "The Cartoons That Shook the World--Without the Cartoons." It involves Yale University publishing a book in November about the controversial cartoons that ap ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Dave Eggers to be Honored in Anaheim for Sensitivity to Muslims
By David Shankbone/Wikipedia CommonsDave Eggers at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius author Dave Eggers will be presented the 2009 "Courage in Media" award at the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' 13th annual banq ... More >>
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November 12, 2009
Barbara Coe on Lou Dobbs' Resignation: It's Also Obama's Fault
So legendary liar Lou Dobbs quit his CNN show last night, and the expected reactions are flowing in: Aztlanistas rejoice, Know Nothings rail. The campaign against Dobbs was very much a La Raza conspiracy, but California for Coalition Reform head Barbara Coe is also pointing a gnarled, cigarette-stai ... More >>
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December 15, 2009
Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Down in California, Report Finds
Yesterday, the California Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released its annual hate crime report, "The Status of Muslim Civil Rights, California 2009." Despite the name, the report actually deals with incidents from the previous year, which are as follows:*A total of 48 ... More >>
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January 8, 2010
[UPDATED:] Local Muslims Begin New Year With Hate Crimes Against Them
CAIR-LAAnti-Muslim vandalization, Mission Viejo-styleUPDATE: See bottom for details of town hall tonight addressing hate crimes directed at local Muslims.This is no way to start the new year fresh: local Muslims are dealing with two incidents of anti-Islam hate targeting their community.
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August 18, 2010
Disneyland Prohibits Muslim Worker from Wearing Hijab on the Job, Suit Claims
Art piece courtesy of the Nadia Afghani Collection...EDIT, 5:30 P.M.: New updates and info emerge from the afternoon's press conference. Please see this post for more details. EDIT, 1:30 P.M.: We're live Tweeting from the press conference! Follow us at @OCWeekly for all the latest developments.Di ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
Muslim Woman and Her Support Team Allege Disneycrimination in Hijab Flap, Suggest Top Brass Ride "It's a Small World"
All photos by Keith May/OC WeeklyAs we reported earlier, a Muslim woman who works as a hostess in the Grand Californian Hotel at the Disneyland Resort was not allowed to come to work today because she was wearing her hijab, a traditional Islamic headscarf.This was the fourth time that the woman, ... More >>
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September 9, 2010
Florida Church Koran Burning is Off, Irvine Church Koran Blessing is On, 5 Great Quotes
The blessing of Islamic Korans during Sunday's regular worship services at Irvine United Congregational Church will go on despite a Florida pastor announcing he has canceled plans to burn copies of the Muslim holy book on Saturday, the anniversary of the 9-11.
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September 27, 2010
[UPDATED:] Disney Lets Muslim Worker Wear Her Hijab
Imane BoudlalUPDATE: Disney releases a statement (see end of post) . . . Disneyland is allowing a Muslim worker to wear her religious headscarf in a position where she interacts with the public.However, the woman in question is not Imane Boudlal, the hostess at Storyteller's Cafe in Disney's Gran ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Oops: Feds Drop Charges Against Supposed OC Terrorist
Remember Craig Monteilh? The convicted con artist and OC Weekly cover story subject who claims he helped the FBI foil an OC terrorist cell operating inside local mosques only to be abandoned by the agency after they stopped believing his stories? The guy who claimed he was a hero for helping the ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
[UPDATED] 24 Civic and Faith Leaders Urge DA Tony Rackauckas to Drop Criminal Probe of Irvine 11
UPDATE, FEB. 3, 10 A.M.: The Los Angeles Times this morning jumped on the "Free the Irvine 11" bandwagon by publishing an editorial under that headline. Criminal charges against the students "are not appropriate" and "would be overkill" and could result in "a punishment out of proportion to the ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Mooz-lum Depicts Being Young, Muslim and Confused in America, Special Screening Sunday at the Block
Your mosque is being spied on by the FBI. Your cousin may be looking at jail time for disrupting an Israeli speaker at UC Irvine last year. Due to the actions of fundamentalist lunkheads 7,000 miles away, you could get your butt kicked by skinheads on Main Street Huntington Beach.Face it: It ain' ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
[UPDATED: Feds' Records Stay Secret, Judge Rules] More Mosque Mole Fallout: ACLU and CAIR Sue FBI
Craig Monteilh[UPDATED April 28, 12:12 pm] The Associated Press is reporting today that Judge Cormac Carney has ruled that CAIR and the ACLU may not obtain FBI records pertaining to surveillance of Muslims in Southern California because of unspecified U.S. National Security concerns. Carney made ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
[UPDATE: OC Democrats Blast Pauly] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function
UPDATE, MARCH 25, 4:40 P.M.: The Democratic Party of Orange County has weighed in on Villa Park City Councilwoman's Deborah Pauly's harsh remarks at an anti-Muslim rally in Yorba Linda last month. (Welcome to the party, folks!)As you might expect from a party philosophically opposite of a teabagg ... More >>
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March 5, 2011
Why Are People Surprised Orange County has Anti-Muslim Loons?
Pauly: PendejaColor me jaded, cynical, or wayyyyy too in to be able to see from the outside, but I'm shocked that the anti-Muslim* rally that happened last week in Yorba Linda has made the national news. Write-ups in Salon, Good, and other national publications? Really? Sure, part of it is that t ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
[UPDATED With CAIR Backing Off Allegations Against Lounge Owner] Muslim Cab Driver's Beating in Newport Beach Spurs Call for Hate-Crime Probe
MySpaceEdgar UriaUPDATE, MARCH 31, 12:59 P.M.: The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is backing off claims that the owner of a cigar lounge was involved in the beating of a Muslim cab driver in Newport Beach.On CAIR-LA's Facebook page, the Anaheim office of the Muslim American rights o ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
[UPDATED with New Anti-Muslim Rally Plans:] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function
Muzammil SiddiqiHere we go again.Organizers of February's controversial and much-blasted anti-Muslim rally in Yorba Linda have issued an ultimatum to the Orange County Human Relations Commission: rescind the Community Leader award it is presenting to Islamic Society of Orange County Imam Muzammil ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) in Anaheim Welcomes "Elimination" of Bin Laden
Hussam Ayloush, CAIR-LA executive directorThe Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Greater Los Angeles area office in Anaheim issued a statement today welcoming the news that Osama bin Laden, "a threat to America and the world," has been "eliminated." The statement came on the heels of ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
[UPDATED with Sentence for Deborah Pauly Threats:] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function
Paul Dean AndrewsUPDATE, MAY 25, 3:46 P.M.: A San Pedro man was sentenced today to 97 days in jail, three years probation and an order to stay away from Deborah Pauly for threatening violence against the Villa Park city councilwoman via a Facebook message. Paul Dean Andrews, 28, was slapped with ... More >>
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June 27, 2011
[UPDATED with "Victim" Speaking:] Muslim Worker Told to Remove Hijab Sues Abercrombie & Fitch
UPDATE, JUNE 27, 11:52 A.M.: The Muslim woman at the center of a lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch over being forced to remove her hijab while working in the stockroom of a Hollister Co. store in San Mateo spoke at this morning's press conference."When I was asked to remove my scarf after ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
Attorney General Eric Holder Chastised for Move to Quash Suit Against FBI for Spying on Muslims in OC
MonteilhAttorneys for Muslims who have been spied on by the government through paid informants like Irvine's Craig Monteilh asked a federal court to reject U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's move to dismiss their lawsuit against the FBI on grounds the case exposes state secrets."It is shocking t ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Whole Foods Scrambles To Do Damage-Control After One Region Buckles Under Islamophobic Pressure
Whole FoodsWhole Foods wants to get one thing straight: Addressing a report from our sister paper Houston Press--Whole Foods: "We Should Not Highlight Ramadan"--which set off a maelstrom of attacks on the haute-hippie market, the corporate-run @WholeFoods has spent the day doing damage cont ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
[UPDATED with Hate Crimes Down In OC, Or Are They?:]African-Americans Were Victims of One-Third of OC's 2010 Hate Crimes: Report
UPDATED, AUGUST 18, 4:48 P.M.: Update by Marisa Gerber.Statistics show that hate crimes are down in OC, but nobody's overly convinced. There was a buzzword at this morning's event, where last year' hate crime report was released. What was the word? Underreporting. The report, which was ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
[UPDATE: CAIR Demands Apology, Dumitru Tries to Cover His Illiterate Tracks] Jon Dumitru, Orange Councilmember, Posts Anti-Islam Facebook Status Update
Dumitru: Emphasis on the "Dum"UPDATE, SEPT. 15, 10:45 P.M.: The Southern California chapter of the Council of American Islamic Relations is now asking that Dumitru apologize for his moronic remarks"Your hateful statement in which you falsely insinuate that the teachings of Islam and the Quran wo ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
Futures of Syria and Bashar Assad Aired at Town Hall
The focus of the international media may have switched from Syria to Israel-Palestine (for now), but that won't stop the Los Angeles chapter of the Syrian American Council from holding its third town hall meeting in Anaheim Saturday to examine the current situation and future outlook for members' ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Aasif Mandvi, Daily Show Correspondent, Coming to Anaheim to Scoop up CAIR Award
Photo by Martin Crook/The Daily ShowThese are heavy times for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is taking heat from Politico for failing to file IRS disclosure forms, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus co-chairman for soliciting funds from Muammar Gadhafi, and Newt Gingri ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
[UPDATED with Judge's Ruling:] Justice Dept. Must Pay for Lying in Suit Against FBI by OC Muslims
UPDATE, NOV. 18, 10:57 A.M.: "The Court must impose monetary sanctions to deter the Government from deceiving the Court again," Judge Cormac Carney of the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana writes in his Islamic Shura Council v. FBI ruling. He gave the council 14 days to come up with ... More >>
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