CAIR-DFW: Greg Abbott Says All Construction Halted for Muslim ‘EPIC City’ – Newsweek
Mustafaa Carroll, executive director of the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told Newsweek: “Texas Governor Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton…have chosen to abuse their power by launching groundless ‘investigations’ against EPIC.
CAIR: Sen. Cornyn of Texas says federal probe started into Muslim-entered community near Dallas – Associated Press
CAIR: Warning of Grave Threat to Free Speech, Judge Frees Rümeysa Öztürk – Common Dreams
CAIR-NJ: New Jersey Reacts After Ras Baraka Arrested Outside ICE Prison – Patch
CAIR-NJ: Mayor Baraka Arrested – Black Westchester
CAIR-NJ Condemns Detention of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Demands Immediate Release – Insider NJ
CAIR-LA: Muslim Students Denounce Selection of Salman Rushdie for CMC Commencement Speaker – Claremont Independent
CAIR-LA: California sheriff slams student lawsuit against police who shut down protests – Fox News
“Across the country, from coast to coast, universities have called upon militarized law enforcement agencies to silence student voices demanding justice for Palestine,” CAIR-LA Legal Director Amr Shabaik said in a statement. “Campuses that should be bastions of free thought have become battlegrounds of suppression … This lawsuit is about drawing a line. It’s about saying that students have the right to speak out without being brutalized and violently attacked by law enforcement.”
CAIR-SFBA: ‘Anxiety and Fear’: Bay Area Indians, Pakistanis React to Escalating Cross-Border Tensions – KQED
CAIR-MA: Hate crimes on the rise in Bay State
CAIR-MA: Hate crimes on the rise in Bay State – Politico
“Massachusetts saw a dramatic increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes last year, according to a new report, which faults police for not responding to complaints. The report by the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said there were 28 hate-related incidents reported to the group last year, a 65% increase over the previous year and marking the largest spike in the group’s decade-long history.”
CAIR: Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk released after six weeks of detention – 5Pillars
CAIR: Will Trump Greenlight Netanyahu’s Endgame in Gaza? – Counterpunch
As the US-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has observed, the ‘Israeli government is screaming as loudly as it can to anyone who will listen that it plans to expel the Palestinian people from Gaza and exterminate or starve any Palestinians who remain’. The world’s ongoing failure to halt such an openly declared genocide—the great crime of our age—constitutes one of the most shameful chapters in modern history.