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.