CAIR-Chicago Welcomes Hate Crime Charges, Suspect Remains in Custody After Pilsen Mural Assault 

The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, welcomes the hate crime charges filed against Danielle Wasserman for her violent attacks and defacement of a Palestinian-Mexican solidarity mural in Pilsen.  SEE MORE: Chicago woman charged with attacking 2 people, vandalizing mural in Pilsen Wasserman was […]

BREAKING: CAIR Wins Major Court Ruling Protecting the Right of Arkansas Muslims to Gather for Jummah in Prison

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, today won a major federal court order requiring the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) to provide Muslims their own weekly prayer service, or Jummah. While Arkansas prisons allowed Christians, Catholics, Protestants and Jews to prayer separately, they did not do the same for […]

CAIR-Pittsburgh Welcomes Firing of Allegheny County Jail Officer Following Racist Video Scandal

The Pittsburgh chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Pittsburgh), a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the termination of an Allegheny County Jail corrections officer who appeared in a racist video wielding a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire and using an anti-Black slur. The widely shared […]

CAIR and CAIR-Chicago Send DOJ Letter Demanding Probe into Killing of U.S. Citizen Khamis Ayyad by Israeli Settlers

The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) and its National chapter CAIR, today announced that they have submitted a joint letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding an immediate federal investigation intothe killing of Khamis Ayyad, a U.S. citizen and Illinois resident, by illegal Israeli settlers in […]

CAIR-NY, Coalition to Hold New Conference with Gaza Aid Workers, Healthcare Professionals, NY Families to Speak Out on Forced Starvation in Gaza

On Monday, August 11, the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, will hold a press conference with a coalition of humanitarian advocates, frontline aid workers, healthcare professionals, and New York-based families with loved ones in Gaza, to address Israel’s […]

Community Advisory: CAIR, Community Groups to Hold Emergency Rally for Palestine in Baltimore

The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on community members to join CAIR, Islamic Circle of North America, IMAN Network, Young Muslims, and MUNA for an emergency rally for Palestine on Wednesday, August 13, in Baltimore, Maryland, from 5-7 p.m.  WHAT: […]

CAIR in the News, August 8, 2025

CAIR: Medical student suing Emory University for discrimination says her suspension is ‘professional death sentence’ – Middle East Eye CAIR: U.S. Islamic leaders urge Muslim-majority nations to take action to end Gaza conflict – NPR CAIR-Chicago: St. Sabina parishioners lead prayers outside Israeli consulate against starvation in Gaza, U.S. aid for war – Chicago Sun-Times […]

BREAKING: Muslim Scholars, Leaders and Institutions Say Muslim Nations Can Take ‘Concrete Action’ to End Gaza Genocide

Over 90 Muslim scholars, imams, community leaders, and institutions in the United States and several other nations today released a joint statement expressing their view that the governments of Muslim-majority countries, including Arab Muslim nations located near Palestine, can take “immediate and concrete action” to secure an end to the Israeli occupation’s escalating genocide in […]