Civil Rights Groups Concerned About Minneapolis CVE Pilot Program
Advocates question whether program is a front for domestic intelligence gathering (MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 1/23/15) — The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today joined with other civil rights organizations in expressing concerns that the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) pilot program, soon be launched in Minneapolis, raises serious civil liberties issues. CAIR-MN, along […]
CAIR Director Nihad Awad at D.C. Press Club Panel on Understanding the Root Causes of Radicalization
CAIR Rep Ibrahim Hooper Discusses Freedom of Expression
Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR talked about the terror attack in France and the recent protests against Charlie Hebdo cartoons in advance of the State of the Union address. The full interview can be watched on News Channel 8’s website.
CAIR-OK Calls on Oklahoma Senator to Drop Unconstitutional Senate Bible Bill
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 1/21/15) — The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relation (CAIR-OK) today called on Senator Kyle Loveless to drop his proposed Senate Bill 48 that states school districts will incur “no liability as a result of providing an elective course in the objective study of religion or the Bible.” Critics say […]
CAIR Concerned About Changes to Religious Holidays in Maryland County’s School Calendar
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/20/15) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today expressed concern about a recent vote by the Howard County Public School System’s Board of Education’s to modify the 2015-16 academic calendar in response to concerns from the Muslim community. The board voted 5-3 to […]
CAIR Condemns Racist Graffiti Targeting Maryland Woman’s Home
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/20/15) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned racist graffiti spray-painted on the garage door of woman’s home in Chevy Chase, Md. A racial epithet, followed by the words “Go Home” scrawled in red paint, was discovered by a neighbor on Monday […]
CAIR Applauds Supreme Court Ruling in Favor of Muslim Inmate’s Religious Rights
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/20/15) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded a unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that a Muslim inmate in Arkansas be permitted to grow a beard in accordance with his religious beliefs. That decision overturned a state prison policy banning […]
CAIR Questions Presidential Hopeful Jindal’s Repetition of Discredited Muslim ‘No-Go Zone’ Claim
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/19/15) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today questioned why Louisiana Governor and presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal would repeat the now-discredited and universally mocked claim that Muslims in Europe have set up so-called “no-go zones” that people of other faiths and police are […]
CAIR to Join D.C. Vigil to Remember Victims of Boko Haram Massacre
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/16/15) – On Sunday, January 18, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, will join other concerned citizens at a vigil to remember victims of the terrorist group Boko Haram’s latest massacre in Nigeria. Some reports indicate as many as 2,000 people died in the […]
CAIR Responds to Growing Post-Charlie Hebdo Islamophobia with Quran, Media Guide Giveaways
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/16/15) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today re-launched two of its educational campaigns in response to the current debate about Islam and free speech in the wake of the recent terror attack on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in France. CAIR's […]