CAIR-NY: Muslims say religious freedom violated by sheriff’s office after University of Tennessee arrest – Knoxville News Sentinel
Some lawsuits have resulted in costly settlements in favor of women forced to remove their hijab. The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations initiated a class-action civil rights lawsuit in federal court in 2020 to prevent the Yonkers Police Department from removing religious head coverings of arrestees for mug shots and during custody. The plaintiffs won a $175,000 award. Earlier this year, the council announced it had settled for $17.5 million with New York City after two women were forced by police to remove their hijabs before being photographed by police.
CAIR: Student groups sue Texas governor, universities over executive order on campus free speech
CAIR: Morehouse community showed solidarity with Palestinians – Al Jazeera
CAIR: Did Biden’s Morehouse graduation speech break tension with Black voters? – The Grio
But not everyone was moved by the president’s commencement speech. Edward Mitchell, a Morehouse alum and national deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told theGrio: “The president’s words have gotten better in the past few weeks, but his policy is not fundamentally changed, and that’s the problem.”
“The president tried to neutralize some of the criticism by indicating he supported some sort of ceasefire, expressing sympathy with the Palestinian people,” said Mitchell, who participated in peaceful protests on Sunday outside of the campus. “The problem is that his words didn’t go far enough, and his words are contradicted by his administration’s continued delivery of military weaponry and money” to the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
CAIR-Philadelphia: Community demands justice after ongoing vandalism at Lombard Cafe – Metro Philadelphia