CAIR: The ADL’s Mamdani Tracking Program Targets Muslim City Officials – Jewish Currents
“They are subjecting any Muslim employees, or prospective Muslim employees, to extra scrutiny because of their faith in an attempt to sideline the Muslim community, and especially to smear Muslim Americans who have been critical of the Israeli government,” says Edward Ahmed Mitchell, national deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group.
CAIR: Lamine Yamal speaks out against Spain fans’ ‘ignorant and racist’ chanting: ‘I am a Muslim’ – New York Times
The chant was condemned by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) after the match on Tuesday, with Yamal’s Barcelona team-mates Pedri and Joan Garcia also decrying the incidents. Spain’s minister of education, vocational training and sport posted a similar message of condemnation on Wednesday, with the Council on American-Islamic Relations shortly following suit.
Video: CAIR-MI Call on Sen. Slotkin to Apologize and Denounce His Anti-Muslim Hate
CAIR-MI: Islamic activist organization demands Democratic senator apologize for recent Bill Maher appearance – FOX NEWS
CAIR: ‘A War Crime’: UN Rights Chief Urges Immediate Repeal of Israel’s New Death Penalty Law – Common Dreams
“The Israeli parliament’s adoption of a racist law authorizing the hanging of Palestinian prisoners is the very definition of apartheid,” the Washington, DC-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement Tuesday. “Even the South African apartheid government never adopted a death penalty law so explicitly racist.”
CAIR-Texas: Chip Roy draws backlash for ‘No more Muslims’ post as critics cite religious freedom – Austin American-Statesman
The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in a statement Tuesday condemned Roy’s comments and called on U.S. House members to “hold him accountable for his blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom.”
“It is the height of hypocrisy for a lawmaker to claim the mantle of a ‘constitutionalist’ while advocating for a religious test that the Founding Fathers explicitly prohibited,” CAIR said in its statement. “… This level of open hostility toward a religious minority has no place in the halls of Congress.”
CAIR-Houston: GOP Councilman Denounces Hate Toward Muslims – Houston Press
CAIR-Texas: Muslim families, Islamic schools request extension of deadline to apply for Texas school choice program – KVUE
CAIR-MN on New Report: Majority of ICE Detainees Had No Criminal Record (Video)
CAIR-MN: ICE targeted Somali’s during Operation Metro Surge, but they weren’t largest immigrant group arrested – KARE
“This is what was expected, majority of Somali Americans are U.S. citizens, majority of Somali Americans have legal status here,” said Council on American-Islamic Relations Jaylani Hussein said. “We knew and we’ve said this in many different ways that this operation, while it targeted Somali Americans, was really going to focus on the larger Latin American population.”
CAIR-MN: ICE targeted Somali’s during Operation Metro Surge, but they weren’t largest immigrant group arrested – Europe Says