More Overreach by the NYPD
By the Editorial Board, The New York Times, 6/23/2013 The revelation in 2011 that the New York City Police Department was spying on law-abiding Muslims rightly attracted scrutiny from the Justice Department, which announced last year that it intended to review the program. The disclosure also raised troubling questions about whether the city was violating […]
Join CAIR this Week to Commemorate Torture Awareness Month at Two Washington, D.C. Events
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — in partnership with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) and ten other religious, human and civil rights organizations — invites you to travel to Washington, D.C. on June 25 to join a panel discussion on “Healing a Culture of Torture” and stay for a demonstration on June […]
CAIR Thanks NY Jewish Community for Helping to Foil Anti-Muslim Terror Plot
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/24/13) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today thanked the New York Jewish community for helping to prevent a terror plot to kill Muslims, who the alleged plotters referred to as “medical waste.” Glendon Scott Crawford, a reputed member of the Ku Klux […]
CAIR Says FBI Nominee Comey Has ‘Mixed Record’ on Civil Liberties
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/21/13) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said that former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who President Obama nominated this afternoon to be the next director of the FBI, has a “mixed record†on the protection of civil liberties.  In a […]
CAIR-MN Welcomes City Council Decision to Approve Muslim School
(MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 6/21/13) – The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today welcomed a decision by the Blaine City Council to approve a conditional use permit for a new Muslim Quran memorization school in that city. The city council voted 5-0 late Thursday night. A motion to postpone the vote had failed. […]
Delta Air Lines Refused to Transport Body of Muslim Shot by FBI
By Wesley Lowery, Boston Globe Almost a month after he was shot and killed by a Boston FBI agent, Ibragim Todashev’s body was loaded on a 5:40 p.m. flight to Russia on Tuesday, concluding his family’s nearly monthlong process of getting his body home. Todashev’s family has attempted to ship the body back to Russia […]
NY Men Face Terrorism Charges for Plot to Kill Muslims
Doug Stanglin and Michael Winter, USA TODAY A Ku Klux Klansman working for General Electric and an accomplice are facing terrorism charges in Upstate New York for allegedly planning to build a mobile X-ray weapon to kill Muslims and other “enemies of Israel,” federal authorities announced Wednesday. Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, N.Y., and […]
CAIR Seeks Hate Crime Charges for 2nd Attack on Va. Muslim Cabbie
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/19/13) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, said today it is asking prosecutors to bring charges against a woman whose anti-Muslim rant and alleged assault targeting a Virginia Muslim taxi driver was caught on 911 recordings and on the cabbie's tablet computer. This […]
CAIR-NY Welcomes Legal Challenge to NYPD’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Spying
(NEW YORK, NY, 6/18/13) – The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today welcomed a legal challenge to the unconstitutional New York Police Department (NYPD) program engaging in mass surveillance of Muslim communities. In August of 2011, an investigation by The Associated Press revealed an NYPD program developed in partnership with […]
Ask NJ Senate to Pass Bill that Prevents Out-of-State Surveillance
(South Plainfield, NJ, 6/17/2013) – The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ) is calling on all New Jersey residents that value their right to privacy and reject religious profiling to contact their state senator about a bill (Bill A-2984) introduced to address the controversial surveillance program of the NYPD that specifically […]