CAIR-NJ Action Alert: Protect Rutgers Staff and Students Who are Exposing Far-Right Hindutva Abuses
(NEWARK, NJ – 10/24/2025) — The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ), a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, is urging all people of conscience to take a stand today in defense of Rutgers University’s right to host open, critical discussions about the rise of India’s far-right […]
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CAIR Action: Zohran Mamdani accuses Andrew Cuomo of ‘racist’ attacks in NYC mayor’s race – USA Today CAIR Action, a Muslim political advocacy organization, condemned Cuomo for a series of “Islamophobic and racist attacks” against Mamdani. “Andrew Cuomo’s comments are despicable, dangerous, and disqualifying,” Basim Elkarra, CAIR Action’s executive director, said in a statement, adding […]
CAIR-Ohio Addressing Oversight By Employee After Personal Participation in Think-Tank Event Featuring Sanctioned Individual
The Columbus office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been made aware that one of its employees recently participated in an online event organized by a think-tank based in Lebanon that a sanctioned individual may have also participated in. Last week, the director of CAIR-Ohio’s Columbus office, Khalid Turaani ,spoke in his personal capacity […]
CAIR Opposes Wyoming City’s Repeal of Hate Crime Ordinance
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today expressed opposition to the proposed repeal of a Wyoming city’s hate crime ordinance. The Gillette City Council voted to begin the process of dropping the city’s malicious harms ordinance, passed in 2023, which criminalizes threatening or harming a person or […]
CAIR-Alabama Calls on State to Drop Execution by Nitrogen Gas After Latest ‘Horrific’ Death
Muslim civil rights and advocacy group commends Supreme Court dissent and reiterates call for suspension of death penalty due to risk of wrongful convictions and evidence of racial disparities in application. The Alabama office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-AL), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the State of […]
CAIR Urges American Muslims to Vote in Upcoming State and Local Elections on November 4
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today urged American Muslims and all citizens to participate in the upcoming state and local elections on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, which will feature major contests across Virginia, New Jersey, and municipalities nationwide. In Virginia, the general and special election will be […]
CAIR-NY Calls on 77 WABC to Drop ‘Deranged Racist’ Sid Rosenberg for 9/11 Remarks, History of Anti-Black Racism
The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), a chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on 77 WABC to drop “deranged racist” Sid Rosenberg for hateful remarks on the 9/11 terror attacks and said that Rosenberg never should have been hired due to his past racist remarks about […]
CAIR-Houston Urges University of Houston to Engage with Students Hunger Striking To Protect Immigrants on Campus, End Ties to Human Rights Abusers
The Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Houston) today expressed support for a group of University of Houston (UH) students participating in a peaceful hunger strike and urged the university to engage with the students regarding their call to protect immigrant students on campus and to end partnerships with corporations allegedly complicit in […]
CAIR Welcomes Trump’s Rebuke of Israeli Annexation Bill But Says De Facto Annexation Already Underway
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance’s separate and clear rejection of an Israeli bill that would formally annex the occupied West Bank but warned that Israel’s de facto annexation is already well underway through occupation, settlement expansion, and apartheid governance – and […]