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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-CA: California MENA Civil Rights Coalition Responds to CA Assembly Appropriations Committee’s Suspension of MENA Inclusion Act

The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA), along with more than 20 members of the California MENA Civil Rights Coalition, sent a joint letter to the California Assembly Appropriations Committee in response to its decision to hold the California Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Inclusion Act (AB 2763) in suspension.  The […]

CAIR Welcomes Md. Motor Vehicle Administration’s Authentication of Palestinian Driver’s License

The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration’s (MVA) decision to authenticate a customer’s valid foreign driver’s license issued by the Palestinian Authority following CAIR’s call for an investigation into a refusal to do so. SEE: CAIR Calls on Md. Motor Vehicle Administration to Probe Denial to […]

CAIR in the News, June 3, 2024

CAIR-MA: Pro-Palestinian protests, events will continue off campus now that summer break is underway – New England Public Media “I imagine that the summer of 2024 will find students organizing in their backyards, on social media, planning and thinking things out,” said Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Massachusetts. […]

CAIR-LA Condemns UCLA Administration’s Censorship of Pro-Palestinian Activism With Threats to Withhold Degrees From Peaceful Anti-Genocide Student Protesters

The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today condemned the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for threatening to withhold degrees from 55 students who were arrested earlier this month for their participation in the school’s peaceful anti-genocide encampment in attempts to further suppress their pro-Palestinian advocacy. SEE: UCLA threatens […]

CAIR Says President Biden’s ‘Long Overdue’ Call for an Indefinite Gaza Ceasefire is ‘Positive Step’

Muslim civil rights and advocacy group says Biden administration must force Israeli government to immediately end genocide The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called President Biden’s “long overdue” expression of support for an immediate and indefinite ceasefire in Gaza a “positive step” that the White […]

CAIR Action Alert: Urge Congress to Honor Murdered 6-Year-Old Palestinian Child Wadee Alfayoumi

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on Muslim community members and allies to support H.Res.942 and H. Con H.Res.99  introduced by Representative Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3], and S.res.589 introduced by Senator Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]. These resolutions honor the memory of Wadee Alfayoumi, a 6-year-old Palestinian boy who was brutally stabbed […]