The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the dismissal of an assistant prosecutor in Knox County, Tennessee, over social media posts allegedly expressing racist, anti-immigrant, sexist, neo-Nazi, and anti-Muslim views.
The Knox County District Attorney’s Office fired an assistant prosecutor May 5 hours after Knox News made the office aware of his active X account full of post that local media reported “praised Nazism and consistently belittled and disparaged Black people and immigrants.”
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“Someone with such reportedly hateful views should not be tasked with upholding justice in any court of law,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “We welcome the dismissal of this individual and hope it sends a message to all those serving justice that bigotry will not be tolerated.”
Washington, D.C., based CAIR and the American Muslim community stand in solidarity with all those challenging antisemitism, systemic anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and all other forms of bigotry.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com