CAIR in the News, May 30, 2024

CAIR-MI: Holding Onto Prophetic Etiquettes When Protesting: Encouragement And Advice For Muslim Human Rights Advocates – Muslim Matters As we have concern for the Ummah, we felt obligated to remind our beloved college students and others in the movement that our moral compass must be Islamic sacred law and our tone be guided by the […]

CAIR-LA Condemns Labeling Peaceful Student Anti-Genocide Protesters’ Legitimate Criticism of Israel as ‘Antisemitic’ at U.S. House Education Committee’s Hearing

The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today condemned the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce for its recent hearing during which committee members labeled students peacefully protesting the ongoing by the far-right Israeli government as “violent” and conflated the students’ legitimate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.   […]

CAIR-TX to Join N. Texas Imams, Dallas Black Clergy to Condemn Biden Admin’s ‘Complicity’ After 2nd Israel-U.S. Massacre in Rafah ‘Safe Zone’

On Thursday, May 30, the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-TX), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, plans to join with North Texas Imams (Islamic religious leaders) and Dallas Black Clergy to condemn the Biden administration’s complicity in yet another Israel-U.S. massacre of Palestinian civilians in a so-called “safe zone” in […]

CAIR Community Advisory: Georgia Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) Application Deadline Approaching June 4th

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the nation, is reminding all Muslim houses of worship, Islamic centers, and other nonprofit organizations in Georgia to submit their applications for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) before the state’s rapidly approaching deadline on June 4, 2024. To assist […]

CAIR Calls on Louisiana Schools to Drop PragerU ‘Anti-Muslim Propaganda’ Group As Classroom Content Provider

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Louisiana Department of Education (DOE) to reject partnership between public schools and the notoriously anti-Muslim propaganda group known as PragerU. Media Matters research file: We watched every PragerU Kids video. Here are the lowlights. In a […]

CAIR Applauds ‘Growing List’ of Biden Admin Resignations Over Gaza Genocide

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded another in a “growing list” of Biden administration officials who have resigned over the president’s continuing complicity in the Gaza genocide. Stacy Gilbert, a senior official in the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) announced Wednesday […]