CAIR-SFBA Continues Celebration of American Muslims with Proclamations from Additional Bay Area Cities
(SANTA CLARA, CA, 08/20/19) Today, the San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) announced continuing events across the San Francisco Bay Area to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the passage of House Resolution 59, which proclaimed August “Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month” in California. The celebration comes at a time of […]
CAIR-NY Calls on Colonie Police to Probe Threats to Kill Muslims as Hate Crime
Muslim civil rights group asks for public’s help in identifying white male suspect who shouted Islamophobic slurs (NEW YORK, N.Y., 8/20/19) – The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), the state’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Colonie Police Department in the Town of Colonie, N.Y., […]
CAIR Seeks Hate Crime Charge for Threat to Shoot D.C. Muslims
Suspect: ”˜I’m going to shoot you, your customers, and the Muslims standing outside.’ (WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/20/2019) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today urged law enforcement authorities to bring a hate crime charge in the case of an individual who allegedly threatened to kill the owner of a […]
CAIR-CA Publishes 2019 Annual Legal Services Report Showing Jump in Immigration Cases
(SANTA CLARA, CA, 08/19/19) The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) today announced the release of a statewide annual legal report showing a jump in immigration cases reported to CAIR-CA offices across the state. CAIR-CA’s ‘Annual Legal Report 2019’ summarizes and analyzes all civil rights and immigration complaints in 2018 reported to CAIR-CA’s […]
CAIR-California Applauds Governor’s Signing of Historic Bill Reforming Legal Standard for Deadly Use of Force by Police
(SACRAMENTO, CA, 8/19/19) – The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) today applauded Gov. Gavin Newsom for signing into law Assembly Bill 392, which reforms the legal standard for the use of deadly force by peace officers. The bill, introduced by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-79), makes clear that peace officers should only use […]
CAIR-LA and Jewish Voice for Peace, LA Support Ethics Complaint Filed After Reps. Gil Cisneros, Jimmy Gomez, Mike Levin and Other Legislators Join Islamophobic Lobby Group’s Free Trip to Israel
(LOS ANGELES, CA 8/15/2019) – The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) and the Los Angeles chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) today expressed support for a federal ethics complaint filed after California Reps. Gil Cisneros, Jimmy Gomez, Mike Levin, Harley Rouda and other members of Congress joined […]
CAIR ACTION ALERT: Urge Congress to Stop Taking AIPAC Propaganda Trips to Israel, Occupied West Bank
Is your member of Congress one of the 72 lawmakers taking part this August in the anti-Palestinian lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) 2019 propaganda tour of Israel, including the occupied West Bank? Find out below by checking who are the 42 Democratic and 31 Republican lawmakers that are touring Israel with […]
CAIR Condemns Trump’s Support for Israel’s Denial of Entry to U.S. Congresswomen, Urges Americans to Contact Elected Officials and Express Concerns
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/15/19) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned President Trump’s support for the Israeli government’s denial of entry to two U.S. Muslim Congresswomen, preventing one from seeing her grandmother and both from acting as firsthand congressional observers of Israel’s anti-Palestinian segregationist policies and visiting one […]
Georgia Civil Rights Groups Support Federal Ethics Complaint Filed After Rep. Lucy McBath, Others Take AIPAC’S Free Trip To Israel
(ATLANTA, GA – 8/15/2019) The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Georgia), Jewish Voice for Peace Atlanta, and Project South today expressed support for a federal ethics complaint filed with Congress after Rep. Lucy McBath and other legislators joined an all-expense-paid trip to Israel sponsored by an arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a lobbyist group that […]
CAIR-NY Litigation Director To Speak at APPAC Annual Youth Conference
CAIR-NY Encourages Youth Registration (NEW YORK, NY, 8/15/19) – On Saturday, August 17, the litigation director of the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, will speak at the APPAC 2019 Annual Youth Conference at St. John’s University in Jamaica, Queens. The Youth Conference is hosted […]