CAIR-MN: How does the Minneapolis Police Department overcome language barriers? – MinnPost
There have been many instances where miscommunication due to a language barrier has escalated a situation, said Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Hussein said he had one client who couldn’t explain himself to the officer who stopped him after making a mistake in traffic and immediately ended up in the back of a squad car.
“Does it increase the discretion and the potential targeting and more likely that violation? Yes it does,” he said. “In this case, they put him in the back of the car and then they searched his car and he didn’t know why they were searching the car, especially for just going the wrong way.”
CAIR-Chicago: Muslims will keep facing hate crimes if Congress stays silent – Chicago Sun-Times
In Plainfield, just days after Oct. 7, 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and his mother were attacked, allegedly by their landlord, who yelled “You Muslims must die” as he began choking the mother, the family told the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Wadea was killed. He was stabbed 26 times with a long military-style knife, authorities said.
CAIR: Pro-Palestinian community members push GW, federal attorneys to drop alleged student stay-away orders – The GW Hatchet
The Council on American-Islamic Relations — one of the five legal organizations who reportedly sent the letter to GW’s general counsel earlier this month — released a report Wednesday that identified GW, the University of California, Los Angeles and Emory University as three institutions of “particular concern” where Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, Jewish and other students and faculty who oppose the war in Gaza face backlash from their university administrations.
The council argues in the report that GW has failed to protect its students from religious, racial and ethnic discrimination and has suppressed the free speech of students protesting against the war in Gaza. The report states that University President Ellen Granberg has made public statements before the encampment that focused on condemning Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel while “refusing to acknowledge” the Israeli government’s subsequent and ongoing assault in Gaza and its respective impact on Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students.
CAIR Praises Chicago Mayor For Calling Israel’s Actions “Genocidal” Ahead Of DNC – Tampa Free Press
“We welcome Chicago Mayor Johnson’s recognition of the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza, which the openly racist Netanyahu government has carried out for ten months with U.S. financial, diplomatic and military support. This genocide must end,” said CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell.
CAIR-NJ: Anti-Muslim incidents reported in NJ so far in 2024 – NJ Spotlight News
CAIR-NJ said it has documented cases from January to June, with a 118% increase over the same period in 2023. The cases include many involving schools settings and workplaces, it said, and 35 were specifically hate incidents or crime-related, more than double the number last year.