CAIR: State Department move to sanction independent UN investigator on Gaza gets mixed response – Associated Press
“These sanctions reflect a dangerous attempt to silence international accountability for human rights abuses and war crimes. This is a blatant attempt to intimidate human rights officials who dare to speak the truth about Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement.
CAIR-Ohio: Former Cincinnati Children’s chaplain detained by ICE – USA Today
Khalid Turaani, executive director of CAIR in Columbus, said Soliman’s detention is “a travesty for Americans.” He said he spoke to Soliman recently about his fear that ICE would send him back to Egypt.
“It was one thing on his mind,” Turaani said. “He was saying, ‘I just can’t imagine what they would do to me if I’m deported to my homeland.'”
CAIR: US rights advocates, Democrats condemn lawmaker Randy Fine’s comments as racist – Reuters
Robert McCaw from the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group labeled Fine as “anti-Muslim” and pointed to past comments from him, saying his remarks should be condemned in a bipartisan manner.
“We are just weeks removed from heinous acts of political violence targeting elected officials in Minnesota for assassination,” the Democrats noted. A Democratic state assemblywoman in Minnesota, where Omar is from, was fatally shot along with her husband in mid-June.
CAIR: US denounced for providing Israel ‘machines of destruction’ – Al Jazeera
CAIR-Texas: Redrawing Texas: the Republican plan to stack the decks for the midterms – Guardian
Three days after Paxton announced his challenge, Cornyn asked the Department of Justice to investigate the East Plano Islamic Center’s plans to build a community around a mosque. Without evidence, the senator claimed such a project could constitute religious discrimination.
Despite widespread criticism (the Council on American-Islamic Relations called Cornyn’s complaint “factually baseless”) the justice department opened an investigation – only to close it roughly a month later.