CAIR-MI: Two men accused of spray painting swastikas in Sterling Heights charged – Detroit News
CAIR-MI: Accused authors of Sterling Heights anti-Semitic graffiti face multiple felonies – Macomb Daily
CAIR-OK: She’s not a Muslim, but she’s working to defend them in Oklahoma – Baptist News Global
Going to work for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Oklahoma was a natural fit for civil rights attorney Veronica Laizure, despite the fact she isn’t Muslim.
“I consider it sort of an adoptive community to myself as a nonreligious person,” she said on a recent segment of the “CAIR on Air” podcast.
The Oklahoma native now serves as executive director of the state chapter in addition to her role as staff attorney for the national organization.
“We realized what Oklahoma Muslims needed was not only a staff attorney to respond to things after they happened, we wanted to build a civil rights department that would help equip people to prevent these discrimination complaints from happening in the first place,” she said.
CAIR: Pro-Palestine legal aid requests stay high in 2025 amid US campus pressure – Al Jazeera
A separate lawsuit launched by Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) charged that the University of Maryland had tread on the free speech rights of students by banning Students for Justice in Palestine (UMD SJP). That case resulted in a $100,000 settlement.
CAIR-AZ: Arizona measure replaces ‘West Bank” with Judea and Samaria – Arizona Daily Star
“The situation facing Palestinians today is not an abstract policy debate for many people in our state,” said Martin Quezada, general counsel for the Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “It is a humanitarian crisis that people around the world, including many Arizonans, view with deep moral concern.”
CAIR: Sde Teiman Torture Camp Allegedly Involves Dog-Related Sexual Abuse of Palestinian Captives, Activist Claims – International Business Times
The claims referenced by Ben-Ephraim draw on material attributed to organisations including B’Tselem, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
CAIR-San Diego: ‘This is huge’: Proposed overhaul of San Diego County government heads to November ballot – San Diego Union-Tribune
Many others who spoke in support of the measure backed the idea of extended terms for supervisors.
‘This is huge’: Proposed overhaul of San Diego County government heads to November ballot
“We have so many promising ideas, but we need this continuity and extended term limits to carry them out,” said Summer Ismail, a UC San Diego student and an organizer with CAIR San Diego.
CAIR : États‑Unis : forte mobilisation des églises contre les actions de l’ICE – Info Chrétienne
The convergence is finally extending beyond the Christian framework to become part of an interreligious dynamic. Muslim organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as well as progressive Jewish networks like HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), are supporting religious coalitions advocating for migrants.