Ibrahim Hooper a convert to Islam

Islam

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, is the National Communications Director and spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations

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 (CAIR), a Washington D.C.-based Muslim

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 civil rights

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 and advocacy organization.

Early life

He holds a bachelor's degree in history, and a master's of art in journalism and mass communications. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hooper worked as a news producer

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 at KSTP-TV

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, the ABC

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 affiliate in Minneapolis.

External links

• "Ibrahim Hooper" (Griffin Tibbetts) vs. Michael Muhammad Knight
• Guest CV, Islam Online
• http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XpYNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2m8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6630,10182709&dq=ibrahim-hooper&hl=enAbu-Nasr, Donna, "Moslems learning how to spread the word in U.S.," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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  , August 30, 1996]