CAIR-GA: Man seen in video harassing Muslim women in Alpharetta to apologize at press conference Friday, civil rights group says – Atlanta News First
CAIR-GA: Group of Muslim women remains strong after man is caught on camera hurling hateful words at them – WANF
CAIR: Arresting Muslim students won’t curb antisemitism – New York Daily News
CAIR: Washington City Police probe sign from ‘one of the nation’s most visible white supremacist groups’ – St. George News
CAIR: From Rome to Mecca: The Surprising Surge of U.S. Latino Catholics Joining Islam – The Stream
“What most Latinos who have embraced Islam find most amazing is their cultural affinity to the Muslim culture,” said Wilfredo Ruiz, a Puerto Rican-born Muslim who converted a decade ago and is a lawyer for the South Florida chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations. “It’s like rediscovering your past. That area of our past has been hidden from us.
“Our language is nurtured by more than 4,000 words that come from Arabic. Every word in Spanish that starts with ‘al,’ for example, like alcalde, alcantarilla, almohada” comes from Arabic.
CAIR/CAIR-MA: Travel alert for US citizens to ‘delete apps’ from law firm amid phone border checks – Daily Express
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is warning people travelling internationally outside the U.S. or those entering the country to be wary of phone searches by federal immigration authorities—whether individuals have full citizenship or not. CAIR-Massachusetts Executive Director Tahirah Amtul-Wadud told Newsweek that the seemingly increasing ambiguity in U.S. immigration law is getting worse.
“We’re getting multiple calls a day from people who are worried about whether or not they should travel,” Amtul-Wadud said. “We’re talking about doctors, students, families. We could get calls from one person and the immigration status of people in their family could be varied. They’re taking a family trip and one person could be a green card holder; the other person could be a citizen, right?