CAIR-CT: CT faith-based organizations: new prohibitions on recipients of federal security grant are a problem – Hartford Courant
CAIR-WA: ICE Detains Disabled Veteran With Green Card at Citizenship Interview – Newsweek
CAIR-WA: At citizenship interview, ICE detains veteran with complicated history – KING
Al Jazeera: Gaza famine declaration ‘must mark end of US complicity’: CAIR
Al Jazeera: Israel carrying out ‘mass slaughter of civilians’: CAIR
CAIR: World reacts as UN-backed body declares famine in Gaza – Al Jazeera
“This famine is not a natural disaster – it is the intended outcome of Israel’s brutal blockade, targeted destruction of food systems, and systematic obstruction of humanitarian aid. For months, international aid organizations have sounded the alarm,” CAIR wrote on X.
CAIR-MN: Local activists opposed to DEI rollback continue Target boycott after CEO shakeup – Bring Me the News
CAIR-MA: Why not a special state commission to protect all students from hate? – Boston Globe
Nearly half of Muslim youth report being bullied
I wish I could be enthusiastic about the recent recommendations from the state’s antisemitism commission, given that religious discrimination is wrong (“State antisemitism panel suggests actions for schools,” Metro, Aug. 13). Unfortunately, however, when the government deems one form of religious bias as more important than all others, harm to those of other faiths is often ignored, minimized, or even erased.
State officials claim that we are in the midst of a crisis of antisemitism. Yet that claim is based not on the state’s own data but rather on a private advocacy group’s often-criticized numbers and definitions. To be clear, any group has the right to define religious bias however it chooses. However, the state abandons its responsibility to the public when it grounds its educational policies in the opinions of those with a specific agenda.
Nearly half of all Muslim youth in Massachusetts report being bullied. Some have even been poisoned or pummeled, or needed surgery after a beating. Perhaps what is actually taking place in our schools is a crisis of religious-based violence and harassment — even if that sad fact doesn’t fit the narrative that some prefer. Yet we will not be able to make our schools safe for all students until we are honest about the true scope of the problem.
Barbara J. Dougan
Legal director
Council on American-Islamic Relations-Massachusetts