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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.

Senator Cortese to Introduce CAIR-CA Sponsored Legislation on Religious Accommodations in State/County Correctional and Detention Facilities

WHAT: On Feb. 6, Senator Dave Cortese’s office will hold a press conference announcing a bill authored by himself and sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, California which ensures the right to religious clothing, grooming, and headwear for Californians in state/county correctional and detention facilities. SEE: Senator Cortese to Unveil Bill Protecting Inmate Religious […]

CAIR Supports Alabama Bills to End Two Confederate Holidays

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 2/2/2023) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today offered support for a set of bills pre-filed in Alabama’s legislature that would end two holidays honoring Confederate leaders and add holidays for Juneteenth and Election Day. If passed in the legislature and signed into law, […]

CAIR-NY Condemns Queens Church Vandalism, Welcomes Hate Crime Probe

(NEW YORK, NY, 1/31/2023) – The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), today condemned vandalism targeting a Queens Lutheran Church and welcomes a NYPD hate crime investigation of an individual who allegedly threw a rock at the church’s glass front door.  On Sunday, the alleged suspect threw a rock at the […]

BREAKING: CAIR-Sacramento Demands ‘Transparent and Independent’ Probe of Police Shooting of Muslim Teen

(SACRAMENTO, CA, 1/27/2023) – The Sacramento Valley/Central California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Sacramento), a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, tonight called for a fully transparent and independent investigation of a police shooting of a Muslim teenager in Tracy, Calif. Disturbing video of the aftermath of the incident […]

CAIR Welcomes Order to Remove Ala. Confederate Statue, Urges Miss. Lawmakers to Remove Confederate Statues from Congress

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/27/2023) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed an order by a Macon County, Ala., judge to remove a Confederate statue from the town square in Tuskegee. CAIR also urged Mississippi lawmakers to remove two Confederate statues contributed by the state to the […]