DONATE

Author: Ibrahim Hooper

Ibrahim Hooper – Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper is the National Communications Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s of art in journalism and mass communication. Hooper has been with CAIR since its founding in 1994. As CAIR’s spokesman he appears frequently on national and international television programs to offer an Islamic perspective on current events or debate controversial issues.

CAIR in the News, August 28, 2024

CAIR: ‘Enough is enough’: the Muslim American officials who resigned over US’s Israel-Gaza policy – The Guardian In a Zoom call hosted by the civil rights group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Tuesday, Hassanein and Hala Rharrit, a former US state department diplomat who resigned in April, shared their experiences of witnessing the Islamophobia […]

CAIR in the News, August 27, 2024

CAIR: Gaza’s Doctors Face a New Battle: The War on Polio – TIME Edward Ahmed Mitchell, Deputy Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, puts the argument in stronger terms: “No vaccine campaign is going to succeed while the population is actively experiencing a genocidal bombing campaign.” CAIR-NY: 2 Face Hate Crime Charges In Attack […]

CAIR in the News, August 26, 2024

CAIR: Morgantown Students Granted Prayer Space – WV Public Broadcasting Nicole Fauster-Bradford is the advocacy director at the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). She and her organization were asked by students and community leaders to intervene after a year of limited response from the school and county. Fauster-Bradford said students provided names of teachers […]

CAIR Says Israel’s Latest Quran Burnings Is a War on Islam that Biden Must Condemn

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said the Biden administration must speak out strongly to condemn the latest videotaped burning of copies of the Quran and destruction of mosques by Israeli soldiers in Gaza and end weapons transfers to the Israeli government to force an end to […]

CAIR in the News, August 23, 2024

CAIR-MN: Appeal after white supremacist, Nazi graffiti found on Cloquet bridge “We condemn this hateful vandalism and call on all Minnesotans to come together to repudiate the ideology it promotes,” CAIR-MN Executive Director Jaylani Hussein said in a statement. “Our communities will not be intimidated or divided by this kind of bigotry.” CAIR: Palestinian flags […]

CAIR in the News, August 22, 2024

CAIR: News Emmys stand by nomination of Palestinian journalist’s documentary – CBC Edward Ahmed Mitchell, national deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, called the signatories of Monday’s open letter hypocritical. Mitchell told CBC the signatories would have had no problem with a filmmaker who hosted a fundraiser for the IDF or was photographed […]