The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today expressed solidarity with the Tajik and Russian Muslim community in the wake of an apparently bias-motivated killing of a 10-year-old Tajik schoolboy in Russia.
The alleged attacker reportedly subscribed to neo-Nazi channels and sent his classmates a racist manifesto before the incident.
In a statement, Washington, D.C., based CAIR said:
“We express solidarity with the Tajik and Russian Muslim community in the wake of this horrifying act of violence against a child, which appears to be driven by the same racist and neo-Nazi ideologies that have fueled attacks on ethnic, religious, and immigrant communities around the world. The targeting of a young Tajik Muslim schoolboy underscores the deadly consequences of hate-filled and extremist propaganda.”
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