Tuesday
Jun302009
CAIR Announces Plan To Distribute Qurans To Gov't, Public
By Courtney Costello - Talk Radio News Service
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, an Islamic advocacy group based in Washington, DC, announced Tuesday the second phase of its “Explore the Quran" campaign, entitled “Share the Quran.” The objective of the new program is to immediately deliver 100 thousand Qurans to government leaders, as well as 1 million Qurans to the general public over the next five to 10 years.
“[The Council] took up this project, to reduce ignorance about Islam and to increase knowledge of it,” said Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
According to CAIR's studies, only 2% of the U.S. population is knowledgeable about Islam, and the Council speculates that this 2% are made up of predominately Muslim-Americans.
CAIR says the concept behind the campaign was ignited by President Obama’s speech in Cairo, in which he quoted the Quran.
“His speech was inspiring, historic, in the fact that he wanted to open a new page and new relationship with Muslims world-wide including in America, and we believe one of the first steps is information,” said Awad.
CAIR says anyone interested in obtaining a Quran should log onto www.explorethequran.com.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, an Islamic advocacy group based in Washington, DC, announced Tuesday the second phase of its “Explore the Quran" campaign, entitled “Share the Quran.” The objective of the new program is to immediately deliver 100 thousand Qurans to government leaders, as well as 1 million Qurans to the general public over the next five to 10 years.
“[The Council] took up this project, to reduce ignorance about Islam and to increase knowledge of it,” said Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
According to CAIR's studies, only 2% of the U.S. population is knowledgeable about Islam, and the Council speculates that this 2% are made up of predominately Muslim-Americans.
CAIR says the concept behind the campaign was ignited by President Obama’s speech in Cairo, in which he quoted the Quran.
“His speech was inspiring, historic, in the fact that he wanted to open a new page and new relationship with Muslims world-wide including in America, and we believe one of the first steps is information,” said Awad.
CAIR says anyone interested in obtaining a Quran should log onto www.explorethequran.com.
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Reader Comments (2)
So, this is the next best thing to going door to door? Yuck.... stay away!
Chris King
God Saves, Allah kills..
What a good idea. After people read that crappy book they might reject islam, unless they are fully delusional and brain dead.