(WASHINGTON D.C., 10/1/2021) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned an apparent anti-Asian hate attack in Wisconsin and welcomed the changing of a number of institutional names in North Carolina that are associated with racism and slavery.
In Wisconsin, a man was charged after allegedly crossing the street to confront am Asian-American University of Wisconsin student and spitting in her face last month. The woman said she felt targeted by the man because of her race and appearance.
SEE: Madison man accused of hate crime in UW spitting incident
https://www.nbc15.com/2021/10/01/madison-man-accused-hate-crime-uw-spitting-incident/
Man banned from UW-Madison campus after spitting in woman’s face in alleged hate crime
In North Carolina, four state prisons and a drug addiction treatment facility are being renamed because the connection of their current names to racism or slavery.
SEE: Swannanoa one of 5 NC prison facilities to be renamed because of racist histories
“Every effort must be made nationwide to challenge all forms of bigotry and to eliminate the tragic legacy of systemic racism in our nation,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper.
He said the American Muslim community and CAIR stand in solidarity with all those challenging anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and all other forms of bigotry.
SEE: CAIR-San Diego Welcomes Life Sentence of San Diego Resident Who Shot Up a Poway Synagogue and Burned an Escondido Mosque
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com