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