CAIR Remembers Dr. Yaqub Mirza, Extends Condolences to Family
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today remembered the life and contributions of towering American Muslim community pioneer Dr. Yaqub Mirza and extended condolences to his family. Dr. Mirza’s janazah, or funeral prayer, is scheduled for today at 1:30 p.m. at ADAMS Sterling. His burial will […]
Somali Community and CAIR-Minnesota to Announce Initiatives to Support Community
Somali community leaders, joined by CAIR-Minnesota and allied organizations, plan to hold a press conference today at 3:00 p.m. at Minneapolis City Hall to announce a series of initiatives aimed at supporting and strengthening the Somali American community amid recent attacks and escalating misinformation. WHAT: Press Conference WHEN: Today, Thursday, December 4, 2025 – 3:00 […]
CAIR-SFBA Warns of Rising ICE Detentions of Afghan Community Members in Bay Area, Condemns Discriminatory Immigration Freeze
The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today warned of increasing ICE detentions of Afghan community members in the Bay Area and condemned the Trump administration’s sweeping freeze on immigration-related processing for Afghan nationals as discriminatory “collective punishment” that puts […]
CAIR Op-Ed: Abbott’s attacks on Muslims draw on an old religious bigotry playbook
Gov. Greg Abbott’s sweeping assault on Texas Muslims deploys a familiar methodology once used against Jews and Catholics. The targets have changed, but the pattern remains: Portray a religious minority as an alien threat seeking to create a “state within a state.” Sadly, Abbott’s recent actions against our Muslim organization echo those older bigotries. CLICK HERE TO READ THE […]
CAIR Op-Ed: With growing anger among conservatives over US support for Israel, fading power brokers revive Islamophobic hysteria as a distraction
This surge in anti-Muslim bigotry is not coming from the right wing generally, but from the old guard Israel First right, who are very well aware that they are losing the narrative among the younger generation of conservatives. Whipping up Islamophobia is their last, desperate attempt at stopping the bleeding. CLICK HERE TO READ THE […]
CAIR Sends Letter to Treasury Secretary Debunking Texas Governor Abbott’s ‘Baseless’ Demand for Witch Hunt
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today sent a letter to the Treasury Department debunking false claims that Texas Governor Greg Abbott made in a letter to Secretary Bessent requesting a baseless investigation into CAIR’s nonprofit status. CLICK HERE TO READ CAIR’S LETTER In a statement, […]
CAIR Calls USCIS Order Freezing Asylum ‘Overbroad, Redundant and Discriminatory’
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned a sweeping new USCIS directive that freezes all pending asylum applications nationwide, halts all pending applications and orders the re-review of immigration benefits for nationals of the 19 countries targeted in President Trump’s updated June 2025 Muslim and African travel ban. In […]
CAIR-WA Condemns Trump’s Remarks on Somalis, Stands Proudly with Somali Community
The Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA), a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned President Trump’s vile statements regarding Somali-Americans and Somali immigrants. After years of targeting Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, President Trump recently called for an end to temporary protected status for Somali […]
CAIR Compels New York Post to Correct Another False Article Targeting Civil Rights Group
Muslim civil rights group notes this is the third time this year that the Murdoch-owned outlet has had to correct a biased article. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today announced that it has compelled The New York Post to correct another article that made false and misleading claims […]
BREAKING: CAIR Seeks Records of Texas Governor’s Communications with Anti-Muslim Extremists and Israel Officials
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today announced that it has filed an open records request with the State of Texas seeking any communications between Governor Greg Abbott and anti-Muslim extremists, anti-Palestinian lobby groups, and Israeli government officials, as well as any internal communications among Abbott’s […]