CAIR in the News, January 3, 2025
CAIR: Outrage Over Global ‘Silence’ as Israel Continues Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza – Common Dreams CAIR: Biden Awards Cheney With Presidential Citizens Medal Despite Human Rights Record – Truthout Because of her support for torture — as well as her bigotry against Muslims, her warhawk attitudes, and her spreading baseless birtherism conspiracy theories about former […]
Video: CAIR Joins New Orleans Muslim Community in Mourning Victims of Bourbon Street Attack, Denouncing Daesh
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CAIR Condemns World’s ‘Silence’ Over Ongoing Israeli Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza as Report Shows 6% Decrease in Population
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the world’s “silence” over the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza by the far-right government of indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu as a new report indicates that Gaza’s population decreased by six percent since Israel’s invasion. The report by […]
CAIR Welcomes Arrest of Va. Man with Largest Cache of IEDs Ever Seized By FBI
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the arrest of a Virginia man who allegedly had “a stockpile of more than 150 homemade improvised explosive devices, assessed as pipe bombs” – reportedly “the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history.” SEE: […]
CAIR Joins New Orleans Muslim Community in Mourning Victims of Bourbon Street Attack, Denouncing Daesh
Muslim civil rights and advocacy group encourages anyone with information to come forward (WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/2/2025) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today joined the New Orleans Muslim community in mourning the victims of the Bourbon Street attack on New Year’s Day and reiterating its longstanding condemnation […]
CAIR in the News, January 2, 2025
CAIR: Trump Ally Rebukes Republican’s Anti-Muslim Post After New Orleans Attack – Newsweek CAIR: US Muslims ‘strongly’ denounce New Orleans truck-ramming attack – Anadolu Agency CAIR-WA: Civil rights group wants hate crime probe in vandalism at Kent mosque – Seattle Times Surveillance video footage released by the state’s branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations […]
CAIR Says U.N. Report Condemning Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Healthcare System is Further Evidence of Genocide
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said a new U.N. Human Rights Office report condemning Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza and concluding that Israel has “destroyed” local healthcare is further evidence of genocide. The 23-page report said in part: “The destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza, […]
CAIR Welcomes Transfer of Guantanamo Prisoner to Tunisia, Repeats Call for Facility’s Closure
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the transfer of a Tunisian man who was never charged with a crime out of the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba to Tunisia more than a decade after he was approved for release. Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi, […]
Video: CAIR-WA Calls for Hate Crime Probe of Vandalism Targeting Kent Mosque
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CAIR Welcomes Rutgers Faculty Unions’ Vote to Divest from Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians
The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded the recent decision by Rutgers University’s faculty unions to divest from corporations involved in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people. In a democratic process, members of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Adjunct Faculty […]