The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned a reported incident in which a Nevada Latino landscaper was allegedly followed and insulted while on the job in a gated Las Vegas community.
Video shows a man telling the landscaper, “Get out of my neighborhood” and “You have to leave.”
“We condemn this apparently bias-motivated incident and urge community leaders to speak out against the rising bigotry nationwide that inevitably results in the targeting of members of minority communities,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper.
Hooper noted that earlier this year, CAIR welcomed the introduction of a hate crime reporting hotline in Nevada. Last year, CAIR condemned racist vandalism near Flamingo and Torrey Pines, Nevada.
He said CAIR and the American Muslim community stand in solidarity with all those challenging antisemitism, systemic anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and all other forms of bigotry.
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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; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com