youth correspondent for The Town Talk sixteen years ago.

Since then, Casey has worked and written for The Jackson Free Press, serving as its associate editor, The New York Times, chronicling her experiences traveling across Africa with Nicholas Kristof, and, for the past eleven years, as a reporter for The Oregonian, earning regional and national awards for her writing.

Casey is currently enrolled in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism’s Masters of Arts program, where her scholarship is focused on the effects of poverty, education, and mass incarceration in Louisiana. She can be contacted at casey@bayoubrief.com.

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22.05.2014

In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful

The Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe urges voters to take part in the European Parliamentary Elections

The Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe urges the Muslim general public in the European Union countries to participate, and cast their votes in the European Parliamentary elections.

No doubt that weighing up the manifestos of candidates and political parties, and then heading to the ballot boxes to cast votes, is an expression of awareness of citizenship and the responsibility of participation in democratic life. At the same time, the Federation articulates its disappointment at those slogans and messages promoted by some parties and candidates, which contradict common values, and the principles of mutual respect;