CAIR in the News

CAIR in the News, July 29, 2025

CAIR: NYPD Honors Didarul Islam: Immigrant Muslim Hero Lost in Midtown Shooting – Latin Times

CAIR: Randy Fine ‘dropped by AIPAC’ over Gaza starvation remarks – The New Arab

CAIR-Austin: Community rallies around Austin Muslims after vandals strike local mosques– Chron.com

CAIR-MN: Local Jewish, Muslim leaders amplify President Trump’s call for more aid in Gaza – KARE 11

Video: CAIR, CAIR-SFBA Condemn Killing of Palestinian ‘No Other Land’ Filmmaker, U.S. Entry Denial

CAIR: Awdah Hathaleen, shot by Israeli settlers, was deported from US – The New Arab

CAIR-Action: Trump ‘troubled’ by images coming out of Gaza, prompting him to push for more aid – NBC

CAIR-CA: Bay Area Leaders Call for Humanitarian Aid in Gaza As Global Criticism of Israel Grows – KQED

CAIR-Chicago: Food crisis in Gaza impacts aid groups in Chicago area – CBS

CAIR-MN: Minnesota leaders denounce Israel’s blocking of humanitarian aid – CBS News

CAIR-MN: ‘My family deserved to live with dignity:’ Twin Cities residents share stories of relatives in Gaza – Saint Paul Pioneer Press

Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, urged Minnesotans to call their senators and representatives and “let them know that Congress needs to act, that the president needs to act.”

Hussein said he has been speaking to other Palestinian families in the Twin Cities.

“This war has numbed many of us in ways we cannot understand,” he said. “What we see, we cannot un-see. The stories that we’ve heard, we cannot un-hear.”

CAIR-Sacramento: Amid ongoing raids, new Sacramento RISE Hub aims to support local immigrants with rapid legal assistance, education – Capital Public Radio

CAIR: Facts About the Death Penalty – Do All Religions Support the Death Penalty?

Islamic schol­ars and reli­gious lead­ers have also expressed waver­ing sup­port for the death penal­ty. Despite the fact that Islam per­mits the use of the death penal­ty, Muslim reli­gious lead­ers have expressed con­cerns about Islamophobia in cap­i­tal tri­als. In an inter­view with the New York Times, Khaled Abou el Fadl, a pro­fes­sor of Islamic Law at UCLA School of Law, stat­ed “[r]eaction to the tri­al and the sen­tence is fil­tered through the prism of Muslim sus­pi­cions that Americans are biased against them and their reli­gion.” And in a sep­a­rate inter­view with Commonweal Magazine, Ingrid Mattson, the for­mer pres­i­dent of the Islamic Association of North America said about Islam that [i]t is allowed to retal­i­ate, but it is bet­ter to for­give.” The Council on American-Islamic Relations has also called for a mora­to­ri­um

CAIR-WA: New WA hate-crime hotline live in 3 counties. Not everyone is using it as planned – The Olympian