CAIR: Law enforcement remains on heightened alert following Iran’s strikes on Israel – Spectrum
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties organization, issued its own statement Sunday, placing blame for the crisis on Israel and the Biden administration.
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CAIR-MI: Metro Detroit Jews shaken by Iran strike on Israel – Detroit Free Press
Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the U.S. must avoid getting dragged deeper into the conflict and diffuse tensions by forcing Israel into a ceasefire in Gaza.
“That’s the only solution,” said Walid. “There has to be an immediate ceasefire before the whole region goes up in flames and billions more American taxpayer dollars are spent and maybe more American lives are lost.”
CAIR-GA: Metro Muslim, Jewish leaders respond to Atlanta Police Department’s public safety alert – WSB
“Generally, if I can be honest, sometimes increased police activity makes the Muslim community nervous because it leads to increased surveillance. So, we hope it’s not that, and it’s in good faith for security,” Executive Director of The Council on American Islamic Relations Azka Mahmood said.
CAIR-GA: Atlanta police issue ‘public safety alert’ after Iran attacks on Israel – Atlanta Journal
Both Sernovitz and Azka Mahmood, executive director of The Council on American Islamic Relations told the news station that heightened police presence is routine around synagogues, mosques, and educational and cultural buildings, especially around holy times and group outings.
CAIR: 10th District Democrats test their mettle with wary Muslim voters – pennlive.com
An exit poll commissioned by the Council on American-Islamic Relations found that roughly 69 percent of Muslims nationwide voted for Biden in 2020.
CAIR: Iran Launches Drone Attack Against Israel Over Consulate Bombing – Common Dreams
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group, argued that “the Biden administration emboldened the far-right Israeli government to manufacture this crisis by repeatedly giving it carte blanche to violate international law without any accountability—from murdering journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, to expanding illegal settlements, to committing a genocide in Gaza, to bombing an Iranian Embassy complex in Syria.”
CAIR: Local Authorities Monitoring Fallout from Iran’s Strikes on Israel – MyNewsLA.com
CAIR: The Israel-Hamas War Is Tearing Nonprofits Apart. But Some Are Bridging Staff Divides – Chronicle of Philanthropy
For nonprofit workers who’ve grown accustomed to seeing statements on other issues, leaders’ silence can feel like a double standard at best or, at worst, can seem deeply insensitive to employees’ beliefs and experiences, said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group.
Organizations should either “not comment on international affairs, human rights, and policy issues at all or, if they’re going to comment on those issues, they need to do so in a way that is morally consistent,” he said. “In a way that recognizes the humanity of both Israelis and Palestinians.”