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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 …


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Islamic Leaders Take on Climate Change, Criticizing “Relentless Pursuit of Economic Growth”

Source: Democracy Now A group of leading Islamic scholars have issued a declaration calling on the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims to do their part to eliminate dangerous greenhouse gas emissions and turn toward renewable energy sources. The declaration urges world leaders meeting in Paris later this year to commit to a 100 percent zero-emissions strategy and to invest in decentralized …