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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 Welcomes Nebraska’s Recognition of Malcolm X Day

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a bill passed in the Nebraska legislature recognizing May 19 as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Malcolm X Day, and allowing schools in that state to educate students about the civil rights icon. Malcolm X was born in Nebraska in […]

CAIR in the News, March 29, 2024

CAIR-MI: Jail inmate suing Jackson County sheriff for not accommodating his religious fasting during Ramadan CAIR: This Easter, Is Christianity Still Promulgating Antisemitism? – The New Yorker (American Muslims and Arab Americans, of course, have reason to feel a new trepidation, too: complaints to the Council on American-Islamic Relations rose a hundred and seventy-eight per […]

CAIR in the News, March 28, 2024

CAIR-MI Lawsuit: Jackson County Sheriff isn’t handling Ramadan food properly for Muslim inmate – The Detroit News CAIR-WA: Muslims observing Ramadan at Tacoma ICE center aren’t receiving timely meals, immigration advocates say – KUOW Naeem, a 52-year-old man being held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center, “expressed that for the past 10-12 days of Ramadan, […]

CAIR in the News, March 27, 2024

CAIR-NY: Protesters interrupt Rockland State of the County address to call for ceasefire in Gaza In a statement, the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations echoed the sentiments of Tuesday’s protesters, adding in part: “Complicity from our elected officials when 32,000+ Palestinians are dead, puts Muslim New Yorkers at a continued risk […]