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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-Florida Condemns Attack on Jewish Temple in Pensacola, Three Previous Antisemitic Incidents in City

(TAMPA, FL, 7/31/2023) – The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Florida), the state’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the fourth antisemitic incident reported to Pensacola Police in just weeks, the latest occurred at Florida’s First Jewish temple, Temple Beth El.    CAIR-Florida is calling on the Pensacola Police and the […]

CAIR-WA Seeks Public’s Help Identifying Suspects After Burglary at Federal Way Mosque

(SEATTLE, WA, 7/31/2023) – The Washington chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the public to help identify two individuals caught on video burglarizing the Islamic Center of Federal Way.   In video shared by the mosque, two men are seen entering the facility through a window. They walk all over the sacred […]

CAIR to Release Internal Memo to Maryland School District Showing Principals Raised Numerous Objections to New Curriculum

Elementary school principals objected to content in books, anti-religious bias in discussion guides, lack of teacher training, inconsistent explanations from district office   (BALTIMORE, MD, 7/31/2023) – On Tuesday, August 1, the Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, plans to release an internal memorandum that Montgomery County […]

CAIR Calls for Hate Crime Probe of Intentional Vehicular Assault on North Carolina Migrants

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/31/23) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate an allegedly intentional vehicular assault on six migrant workers in North Carolina as a possible hate crime. The workers were reportedly hit in a Walmart parking lot Lincolnton, […]

CAIR Welcomes Hate Crime Charges for Racist Attack on Iowa Children

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/20/23) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed hate crime charges for an alleged racist attack on Iowa children. A Dubuque, Iowa, man allegedly hit a group of children, ages 12, 13, 14, and 15 with a flashlight outside a grocery store […]