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CAIR wishes Ramadan Kareem to all Muslims
On behalf of the entire CAIR family, I pray that you and your loved ones are safe and healthy as we enter this blessed month of Ramadan.
We thank God for blessing us with the ability to reach Ramadan. We also thank God for helping us to meet the challenges of the past year, from COVID-19 to racist violence to rampant Islamophobia.
Our faith in Allah, God Almighty, has sustained us through the pandemic. Our faith in God has guided us to stand up against oppression and injustice. Now our faith has once again united us in the simple but profound act of fasting in pursuit of His forgiveness.
As our community begin to worship during this blessed month, I want to share three pieces of advice with you.
First, continue being mindful of health and safety regulations. The pandemic is not over. As our mosques and our community centers welcome larger congregations this year, it is critical that we continue to follow the medical advice of local and national experts.
Secondly, please take the security of our mosques and congregations seriously. Establish the necessary protection measures, from qualified guards to safety volunteers to security cameras. The threat of Islamophobia and other forms of extremism persists. We must tie our camel by remaining vigilant.
Thirdly, please think of the less fortunate among us, especially those suffering oppression. In many lands, Muslims today struggle for basic religious freedoms, including China, India, Kashmir, Myanmar, and even France, among so many other places.
During this blessed month, may Allah protect us from all forms of harm, grant the ummah relief from oppression, and forgive all of us for our sins.
As always, we at CAIR are here to support you. May God accept your fasting and good deeds.
Ramadan mubarak!
Sincerely,
Nihad Awad
CAIR National Executive Director
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
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