CAIR-FL: Tampa’s Muslims Thrive, but Political Crosscurrents Create Dilemmas – New Lines Magazine
“I would estimate around 70% of the businesses in the Temple Terrace area are Muslim-owned,” said Imam Abdullah Jaber, executive director of CAIR Florida, the Sunshine State’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil liberties organization whose offices are also in Temple Terrace. “There are Muslims heading the Chamber of Commerce, professors at local universities, dentists, physicians, you name it.”
CAIR: Biden’s claim he’s done ‘more for Palestinian community than anybody’ prompts backlash – Guardian (UK)
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called the remark “tone deaf” and a “deeply disturbing boast” that “completely ignores the genocidal campaign of mass slaughter, ethnic cleansing, and forced starvation that the Israeli government has launched against the Palestinian people with US support”.
This year, Biden approved a foreign aid package that included $26bn in additional wartime assistance to Israel and humanitarian aid.
In the statement, CAIR’s national deputy director, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, also accused Biden of “misstating his own Gaza policy” by saying that he had denied Israel “offensive weapons”, including 2,000lb bombs.