CAIR in the News

CAIR in the News, May 15, 2025

CAIR-DFW: Scrutiny of Texas Muslims’ planned town over sharia concerns is political bullying | Opinion – Fort Worth Star-Telegram

William White of the Council on American-Islamic Relations told the Star-Telegram that “every time Muslims pray five times a day, fast in Ramadan, donate to charity, or abstain from consuming alcohol and pork, they are following Sharia.” Just as devout Christians can point to rules they believe the Bible tells them to follow, as do observant Jews with their Torah, Muslims are trying to live the good life, too.

Video: CAIR Rep Joins Announcement of Taxpayers’ Legal Complaint Charging U.S. with Complicity in Genocide

CAIR-Philadelphia: Montco leaders pledged not to deputize county workers to ICE. Advocates want them to go further. – Philadelphia Inquirer

Ahmet Tekelioglu, the executive director of CAIR-Philadelphia, said Wednesday that rejecting 287(g) was a low bar that glossed over past actions to assist ICE by the county’s prisons and probation officers.

CAIR: Arab and Muslim Advocates Fight Back Against Federal Repression – Non Profit News

The current wave of Islamophobia has been driven by backlash to the Palestinian solidarity movement. An 82-page report by CAIR titled Unconstitutional Crackdowns: 2025 Civil Rights Report, noted plainly that in 2024, “Muslims—along with Palestinians, Arabs, Jews, African Americans, Asian Americans and others—were targeted due to their anti-genocide and anti-apartheid viewpoints.”

CAIR: Judge Orders Georgetown Researcher to Be Released From ICE Detention – Newsweek

The Council on American-Islamic Relations celebrated Suri’s release, saying in a statement Wednesday: “We applaud this ruling, which is the latest important example of the judiciary pushing back against the Trump administration’s brazenly unconstitutional effort to deport college students whose only offense is speaking out against U.S. support for the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza. All of these students must go free and the Trump administration must respect free speech.”

CAIR: US Muslim group welcomes judge’s order to release Georgetown scholar – Anadolu Ajansı

CAIR-LA: Islamic Center of SoCal Vandalized with Anti-Muslim Iconography – MyNewsLA.com

CAIR-LA: Islamic Center of Southern California Defaced With Graffiti – City News Service

CAIR-LA: Salman Rushdie pulls out as commencement speaker at California college over protest threats – The Independent

CAIR: Elon Musk Allegedly Called Arabic the ‘Language of the Enemy’ Before Inking Starlink Deal With Saudi Arabia – Latin Times

America’s largest Muslim civil rights organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), condemned Musk for spreading harmful rhetoric, labeling him a “hateful person.”

“Anyone who sees the word ‘Islam’ in the name of an American charity and then immediately declares that the charity must be a ‘terrorist organization’ is a hateful person who must know next to nothing about American Muslims and their contributions to our society, including humanitarian work,” the organization wrote in a statement shared on X at the time. “