CAIR: Anti-Islam Sentiment Surges in US After New Orleans Attack – Newsweek
“Cruel, merciless, bottom-feeding extremist groups want us all to turn on one another and be afraid,” Corey Saylor, research and advocacy director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told Newsweek. “The best response is to stand together and rally around New Orleans, showing all such extremists that their vision of the world is garbage.”…
An official at CAIR shared with Newsweek the sort of messages the organization has received.
“Be a real shame if a bunch of terrorist pieces of s*** got deported as soon as Trump comes back,” one read, sent from a seemingly bespoke email address with the name kill_yourself_lol.
CAIR-Houston: ‘No one has heard of him’: Houston Muslims denounce New Orleans attacker – Houston Chronicle
CAIR-Houston said they “unequivocally denounce this crime” and noted that the FBI had reported the individual acted alone. “If reports that the perpetrator had a history of domestic violence and substance abuse before being influenced by extremist propaganda are accurate, this incident is yet another reminder of the destructive power of extremist ideologies, which have been consistently rejected by Muslims worldwide,” CAIR said. The group also said they condemned “Daesh,” which is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, or ISIS.
CAIR-Philadelphia: Philadelphia, national Muslim community condemns New Orleans attack
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CAIR-SFBA: SF police union calls for city to rejoin the Joint Terrorism Task Force – KTVU
The Council on American-Islamic Relations released a statement reading in part:
“The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) strongly opposes any efforts by the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to rejoin the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). We extend our condolences to all those impacted by the recent attack in New Orleans, but increasing collaboration with the JTTF will not make our communities safer—it will only further erode public trust and compromise essential civil rights protections.”