Murrah Building bombing shaped Muslim organization

 
By Carla Hinton
Published: May 3, 2008

The Council on American-Islamic Relations was a fledgling organization less than a year old when its co-founder, Nihad Awad , received an urgent telephone call from Oklahoma City in April 1995.

It was just days after a truck bomb blew apart the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building .

The Oklahoma City bombing forever changed the organization created to foster communication between American Muslims and the commun...


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