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Keep the Pressure on Myanmar Government to Stop Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims

ICNA Council for Social Justice (CSJ) in partnership with Dar al-Hijrah, CAIR, American Muslims for Palestine, Dar al-Noor, ICNA VA Mosque, Muslim Ummah of North America, ADAMS, and Muslim American Society-DC, hosted a protest in front of the Myanmar (formerly Burma) Embassy in Washington, D.C. to demand a stop to the ethnic cleansing of its Muslim minorities known as Rohingya. They are a …


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Here are 29 ways you can help refugees

Source: The Independent David Cameron has announced that Britain will house more than 20,000 refugees from Syria. The refugees will be resettled over the course of the current Parliament, he told MPs. The move follows a sharp increase in public pressure in the past week to do more to help, including a petition launched by The Independent which has been …


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U.S. Muslim Groups Calling for No-Fly Zone to Protect Syrian Civilians

On Friday, September 4, representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) joined leaders of other national Muslim organizations, including ICNA Council for Social Justice, and of the Syrian-American community at a news conference in Washington, D.C., to call for immediate action by the Obama administration to help end the suffering of the Syrian people, which has reached levels of …