Real Muslims Save Lives: Blood Drive in Solidarity with Victims of Injustice
(ATLANTA, GA – 7/14/16) Georgia Muslims united to host a successful Red Cross blood donation drive at Dar-un-Noor Academy on Thursday, July 14. “While a mass murderer was taking lives in France on Thursday, Georgia Muslims were saving lives by hosting a blood donation drive at an Atlanta mosque,” said CAIR Georgia Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell. […]
CAIR Calls for Congressional Hearings on Police Shootings
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/7/16) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called for hearings by the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to address public outrage over two police shootings of African-American men in Louisiana and Minnesota in just the past two days and to propose legislation to […]
Support CAIR-GA As We Work To Defend You From Bigotry, Extremism & Discrimination
Asalaamu Alaykum & Ramadan Mubarak, This is Edward Ahmed Mitchell, executive director of the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. As you may know, CAIR Georgia has undergone a reboot in 2016. So have I. Only a few months ago, I left my career as a prosecuting attorney in order to serve, protect and advocate for Georgia Muslims full-time. Since then, […]
GA Muslims Condemn Attack on Brothers and Sisters in Turkey
(6/29/16 – ATLANTA, GA) The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic relations today condemned Tuesday’s suicide bombings at an international airport in Turkey, which killed over 50 people of various faiths and nationalities. No group has claimed responsibility but the attack bears the hallmarks of mass-casualty attacks in Paris, Brussels, and Baghdad. “The fact […]
GA Muslims Plan To Host July 14th Blood Drive in Solidarity with All Victims of Violence
American Muslim Health Professionals (AMHP-Atlanta), CAIR Georgia and other organizations have teamed up with the Red Cross to host a public blood drive on July 14th at Atlanta’s Dar-un-Noor Academy in solidarity with all victims of unjust violence around the world, from Chicago to Orlando to Aleppo. Donors should register onine at redcrossblood.org using the code: dar-un-noor. […]
CAIR-Georgia Calls for Probe of Threats by Armed Anti-Muslim Extremist Outside Mosque
(ATLANTA, GA, 6/22/16) – The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-GA) today called on federal and local authorities to investigate and monitor James Stachowiak, an extremist who threatened violence against Georgia Muslims while carrying a weapon and desecrating a Quran, Islam’s holy text, outside an Augusta, Ga., mosque. In a video posted online […]
Unexpected Friendship: Tea Party Leader Joins CAIR-GA for Joint NPR Interview
CAIR Georgia Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell and Bob Ross, leader of the Tea Party in Fayette County, sat down together for a joint interview with NPR on June 21. The two discussed their “unexpected friendship,” which arose after Ross attended interfaith dinners at the Islamic Community Center of Atlanta, including an annual Ramadan Interfaith […]
GA Muslims Condemn Orlando Massacre, Launch Blood Drive
(6/12/16 – ATLANTA, GA) Georgia’s Muslim community today united to condemn the horrific mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub. “Georgia Muslims join their fellow Americans in denouncing Sunday’s mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando,” said CAIR Georgia Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell. “Heroes like Muhammad Ali embody the world’s Muslim community, not this mass murderer.” […]
Full Video: Atlanta Muslims Host Interfaith Memorial for Muhammad Ali
As many as 1,000 people attended an interfaith memorial service for Muhammad Ali at the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam on Thursday, June 9th. CAIR Georgia united with other Georgia Muslim organizations and mosques to remember and pray for the late athlete and humanitarian. Full video of the event can be viewed here. “The diversity of […]
CAIR-GA Invites Baptist Editor, Who Would Deny Religious Freedom to American Muslims, to Ramadan Dinner
(ATLANTA, GA, 6/7/16) – The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-GA) today invited Dr. Gerald Harris, the editor of the official newspaper of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board, to fellowship with his Georgia Muslim neighbors during a Ramadan interfaith dinner at the Islamic Community Center of Atlanta. Dr. Harris recently published an […]