CAIR-AL: An Alabama man is about to be executed for murder. He wasn’t the triggerman and groups are outraged – AL.com
“Executing a man who did not commit a murder while commuting the sentence of the man who did is an affront to justice,” Britton O’Shields, staff attorney at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, said in a statement.
CAIR-MI: Wyandotte School Board trustee resigns for Facebook comment – Detroit Free Press
CAIR: Shooting incidents unsettle Muslims as Ramadan begins – Religion News Service
“No one will be surprised if those attacks turn out to be incidents of anti-Muslim hate,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, national deputy director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “We have to see what the police investigations finds, but the fact that no one would be surprised by it is a sign of the fact that anti-Muslim bigotry is out of control.”
CAIR: Security tightened at Utah mosques after shooting – The Salt Lake Tribune
CAIR: Muslim leader targeted in drive‑by shooting – AsAmNews
CAIR-AZ: ASU Muslim community reacts to legislation directed against Muslim organizations, beliefs – The State Press
Martín Quezada is the attorney and civil rights director for the Arizona chapter of CAIR, as well as a faculty associate at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and an ASU alumnus. He is also a former state senator.
Quezada said CAIR-AZ monitors the state legislature every year and keeps track of legislation that impacts the Muslim community.
“The community in general is feeling targeted, because if they’re willing to go after one organization first, like CAIR, who are they going to go after next?” Quezada said.
The point of HCM 2002 is to discourage people from speaking out, Quezada said. Thelegislation accomplished that goal by “trying to make an example out of CAIR.”
CAIR-AZ: As demonstrations grow, Arizona Republicans seek jail for some protesters – Arizona Republic
Martín Quezada, former state senator and spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the bill’s line between “providing lawful, legal information and being accused of hindering enforcement” was “dangerously unclear.”
CAIR-FL: Muslims Fear They’ll Be Targeted by Florida State Spy Squad – The Intercept
“If it’s anything like what we’ve seen, which we’re pretty sure it is, it’s going to be one particular group that is going to be surveilled,” Omar Saleh, a civil rights lawyer for CAIR-Florida, told The Intercept. “They are not going to go into churches or synagogues or any other places of worship — they’re going to focus on mosques.
CAIR: Florida lawmakers advance domestic terrorism designation bill despite constitutional concerns – WUSF
CAIR: Trump says Muslim lawmakers Omar, Tlaib should be removed from US after speech clash – Reuters
Muslim advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations also said Trump’s comments were racist.
“It’s racist and bigoted to say two Muslim U.S. lawmakers should be sent to the country they were born in or where their ancestors came from based on their criticism of the gunning down of Americans by ICE,” CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said.
CAIR: Donald Trump says Muslim congresswomen should be ‘sent back from where they came’ over State of the Union clash – ABC (Australia)
CAIR-Chicago: Lombard Man Sentenced to Probation for Anti-Muslim Hate Crime – Chicago Today
CAIR: Celebrating Ramadan while living in fear – WBUR
So how do we keep our mosque safe? How do we keep our community protected has been on many people’s minds and a lot of work has been put in towards that, like advocacy groups, like the one we heard from the Council for American Islamic Relations has put together a training and there’s the PDF they’re circulating in Michigan, have done trainings at many mosques around southeast Michigan to help the leaders understand and know what are the best practices that they should adopt to protect their community during this month.
CAIR: After Trump’s speech, advocates say the real State of the Union is deepening instability – Prism
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement, “One of two things is true: either the war hawks around the President are lying to him about Iran to convince him to start a war or the President is not being honest with the American people.”