Use Our Sample Eid Media Advisory for Your Community
Action requested: Modify the CAIR Eid ul-Fitr media advisory below for distribution to local media outlets. Just insert local Eid dates, times, locations, and contact information. Make sure to send a copy to the main daily newspaper “city desk,” TV station “assignment desk,” radio station “news director,” and Associated Press local bureau “daybook editor.” Call […]
Dial for Justice in Gaza
Tell the president and Congress to demand Israel immediately halt its brutal campaign of collective punishment in Gaza and seek justice for the killing of hundreds and wounding of thousands of civilians.
USOC Responds to CAIR’s Call to Ensure Rights of Muslim Women at Colo. FIBA B-Ball Tournament
Muslims join Sikhs in calling for change of FIBA policy banning religious head coverings (WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/23/14) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has called on the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to ensure the religious rights of Muslim athletes taking part in an upcoming […]
CAIR Rep to Comment on FBI and NSA Spying at Privacy and Civil Liberties Board Meeting
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/23/14) – A representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will offer recommendations today to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) during a public meeting to consider the board's near- and long-term agenda. CAIR Government Affairs Manager Robert McCaw's comments will address recent revelations that the FBI and NSA have […]
CAIR Recommendations to PCLOB on Government Watchlists, Surveillance, Profiling
July 23, 2014 CAIR Statement of Views on Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Mid-term and Long-term Agenda by Robert McCaw Good afternoon. My name is Robert McCaw and I am the government affairs department manager for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization. CAIR appreciates this opportunity […]
CAIR-CA Launches Letter-Writing Campaign for Gaza at Ramadan Events
Several thousand letters have already been signed by Muslims calling for end to killing in Gaza (SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 7/22/2014) -– The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) today announced the launch of a letter-writing to call for an end to the killing in Gaza. CAIR chapters across the country have launched […]
CAIR Collects 1,000+ Letters Urging Md. Senators to Call for End to Killing in Gaza
(BALTIMORE, MD, 7/22/2014) — The Maryland Outreach Office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that it has collected more than 1,000 letters signed by members of that state's Muslim community at Ramadan-related events over the weekend calling for an immediate end to Israel's targeting of civilians in Gaza. [NOTE: During the month-long […]
HRW report: FBI encouraged, paid Muslims to plot attacks
Agence France Presse The FBI encouraged and sometimes even paid Muslims to commit terrorist acts during numerous sting operations after the 9/11 attacks, a human rights group said in a report published Monday. “Far from protecting Americans, including American Muslims, from the threat of terrorism, the policies documented in this report have diverted law enforcement […]
Cincinnati Muslims Feed Homeless in Ramadan
(CINCINNATI, 7/21/14) — On July 20, 2014 the Cincinnati Muslim community, organized by CAIR-Cincinnati and other area Muslim organizations, worked to feed the homeless in the fasting month of Ramadan during its twelvth annual “Ramadan in Over-the-Rhine” project. Muslim community volunteers came together to provide a hot meal to some 200 Cincinnati homeless men and […]
CAIR-MI Calls for Hate Crime Probe of Attack on Muslim at Mall
(SOUTHFIELD, MI, 7/21/14) — The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) today called on law enforcement authorities and public officials to investigate an alleged attack on a Muslim woman in a shopping mall parking lot in Okemos as a possible hate crime. On Saturday afternoon at approximately 1 p.m., a witness reported that two men […]