CAIR-NY Welcomes Arrest of Suspect Following Knife Threat Incident Targeting Muslim Men at Brooklyn Restaurant 

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 welcomed the arrest of an individual accused of threatening four Muslim men with a knife as they exited an Applebee’s location in Brooklyn Sunday night and called for a full hate crime investigation into the incident.  According […]

CAIR-NY Condemns Egg-Throwing Targeting Worshippers at Brooklyn Mosque During Friday Prayer 

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 condemned a disturbing act of intimidation targeting worshippers at Baitul Mamur Masjid (Mosque) and Community Center in East New York, Brooklyn, after eggs were allegedly thrown at congregants during Jummah (weekly communal) prayer on […]

CAIR-Houston Welcomes Arrest of Suspect Who Threatened to ‘Kill all the Muslims and Jews’

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the arrest of a suspect accused of making violent threats against Muslims and Jews targeting Houston’s Ismaili Center. Jacolby Poindexter, 29, was arrested on a terroristic threat charge Sunday. According to reports, the suspect allegedly threatened to “kill […]

CAIR, MPAC Demand Cancellation – Not Postponement – of Ted Cruz’s Anti-Muslim Hate Hearing After Terror Attack on San Diego Mosque

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) today called for the Senate Judiciary Committee to permanently cancel – not merely postpone – the anti-Muslim hate hearing that Senator Ted Cruz had scheduled for this week. The hearing has reportedly been pulled from the calendar in the wake of the terror attack on […]