"We need to create a more concerted effort to educate others about who we are, what we are and why we can not be less than all the rights and freedoms which the Constitution guarantees to us," Senator Larry Shaw, the newly elected chairman of CAIR, IslamOnline. net spoke in an exclusive interview.
Shaw, a member of the Senate from North Carolina General Assembly and former member of the House of Representatives North Carolina General Assembly, was elected new chairman of the board of CAIR last week.
Shaw, at the National Council for three years, CAIR, America has been high-ranking Muslim elected official until 2006 election Keith Ellison the first Muslim Congress.
The new president of CAIR has a long list of goals and objectives for their group in the coming period.
"We were at the forefront of the fight with the States that want to ban the head, and the profiles of people just because of some prejudice," he said.
"We must do more to interfaith dialogue and a coalition of religious groups, civil rights groups and other organizations that share common interests."
Shaw believes that another important task is to CAIR, Muslim groups in the United States, bringing together under one roof.
"There is a need, always due to the coalition in the quest for equality and justice in order to preserve the American way of life."
Established in 1994, CAIR is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, with 32 chapters, as well as in the U.S. and Canada.
After his mission, which seeks a better understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties of American Muslims and strengthen coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
Shaw believes that Senator CAIR has been a remarkable success because of its short history.
"The success was the creation of a political organization, national in scope and unlimited resources."
He noted that during this short history, CAIR, prominent Muslim organizations, civil rights in America.
"CAIR is very effective in accordance with the current issues and problems of discrimination, in which the Muslim communities in America, in which very much."
However, he acknowledged that the organization has its share of problems.
"I do not have the words" failure, but the board, said Shaw. "I think that the success of their activities, and has stabilized since it reached a milestone."
Shaw believes that one of the main difficulties is that, as CAIR has grown into mature organizations, some of their demise.
After 9 / 11, CAIR has become a vocal role in the public debate that developed relationships with members of Congress, as well as officials of the FBI is often at its meetings.
Together with a group of violent attacks against some officials and the media about the so-called links with terrorist organizations and their funding sources.
The FBI decided early this year with a server with CAIR on the grounds that his relationship with radicals.
Senator Shaw regrets "negative and counterproductive policy shifts.
"The policy of the FBI, after years of very productive cooperation with the FBI and the district offices CAIR chapter [in] the last days of the Bush administration was trying to photograph CAIR, he said.
"[This] suggests that the negative stigma."
U.S. Muslims
The new chairman of the board of CAIR U.S. Muslims were mainly in recent years.
"After 9 / 11 there is a broad, comprehensive laws and regulations that direct the Islamic community and other immigrants in America."
American Muslims, is about seven million people were depending on the erosion of civil liberties after 9 / 11, and many complain of discrimination on religious grounds.
Show senator referred to the recent presidential election as evidence of a further stamp of community concern.
Then candidate Barack Obama defended himself from accusations of a constant, a Muslim. This has a toxic effect on the media, which played on TV, online and traditional media. "
He insists that, despite the challenges they face, American Muslims have a tendency to put an end to segregation in the political life of the United States.
"This trend must be stopped ... It's very negative and does not help our cause, but it helps our enemies."
Shaw sees some hopeful signs emerge, and many Muslims, as elected public office.
He believes that the mission of CAIR is to Muslims to participate in the political life of their country to maintain and improve society as a whole.
"The work we are doing today for the next generation, not for us. This is even more important for us across the country to participate."