CAIR-OK issued a press release this afternoon regarding an incident that happened at the Sprint Call Center in Oklahoma City on September 26, 2009. A customer, allegedly, called the call center and, during the course of the call, asked the customer service rep. their name. Then, the customer, allegedly, asked if he/she were a Muslim. The rep, apparently, told the customer they were Muslim. Then, the customer, allegedly, said they didn't want to talk to the rep anymore, possibly cursed, and the Sprint rep hung-up on the customer. A week later the rep. was fired. CAIR-OK described the customer's words as a "hate call." Sprint has a policy that no employee can hang-up on a customer, period.
Ten men were indicted in federal court yesterday for support of the terrorist group Hezbollah: A Hezbollah political official and his son-in-law sought this year to smuggle 1,200 machine guns from the United States to the militant Islamist group via Syria, according to indictments made public Tuesday against 10 men in federal court in Philadelphia. Hassan Hodroj and Dib Hani Harb, both of Beirut, were among four men accused of conspiring to support Hezbollah, a Shiite group with close ties to Iran and Syria that is on the State Department's list of terrorist groups, U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy of Philadelphia said. Five of the ten men are from New York and one is from New Jersey: ...Hamdan, Hamze el-Najjar and Alaa Allia Ahmed Mohamed of Brooklyn, New York, Moustafa Habib Kassem of Staten Island, New York, Maodo Kane of the Bronx, New York and Michael Katz of Plainsboro, New Jersey were charged with having purchased several thousands dollars worth of purportedly counterfeit goods. Among the merchandise were over 5,500 pairs of Nike shoes and 334 Mitchell & Ness sports jerseys...