CAIR: El Paso County Residents Protest Against Mosque – Colorado Times Recorder
CAIR: Without a Border ‘Invasion,’ Texas G.O.P. Turns to an Old Enemy, Islam – New York Times
“In the Muslim community there are some who call this the Medina of the U.S. because of how many have migrated here,” Mustafaa Carroll, the executive director of the Dallas-area chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, said, referring to one of Islam’s holiest cities. “Truthfully, Dallas-Fort Worth, outside of the politics, is just a good place to live.”
CAIR: Sen. John Cornyn battles for political life in GOP primary contest with AG Ken Paxton, U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt – Houston Public Media
“What John Cornyn, Ken Paxton and others are doing is tripping over each other to see who can be more anti-Muslim, who can stir up more fear of Texas Muslims in order to win votes,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, a civil rights attorney and member of CAIR Action, a political organization aligned with CAIR.
Mitchell said the Republican Senate candidates are putting a bullseye on the backs of the state’s 300,000-plus Muslims, and he said Cornyn in particular should know better, having worked with Muslims over his long tenure in the Senate.
“John Cornyn is mixing pictures of ISIS, the extremist group, with a reference to CAIR, our civil rights group, even though ISIS quite literally called for the assassination of CAIR’s director because we spoke up against their terrorism,” Mitchell said. “John Cornyn knows what he’s doing. It’s defamatory, it’s dangerous, and he should be better than this.”
CAIR: Muslim advocates, elected officials urge MCPS to move snow makeup day due to major holiday – Bethesda Magazine
“Our holidays are not expendable,” Zainab Chaudry, Maryland director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told Bethesda Today on Monday about the district’s decision to keep schools open on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
“We don’t get to discard our holidays just because of the weather and circumstances beyond our control, and similar to the other major holidays that are observed in our school calendars, Eid deserves to be protected,” she said.
Chaudry said CAIR sent a letter to the county school board urging members to change the makeup day along with more than 9,000 online letters sent from those in the community about their concerns. The organization also planned to contact the Maryland Department of Education to “revisit how they allocate time off and days off, and what kind of designations they give to these holidays on the calendar,” she said.
CAIR: US Muslim group supports Australian protesters denouncing Herzog – Al Jazeera
CAIR-NJ: Paterson woman is detained again by ICE in Texas after hospitalization – NorthJersey.com
Kordia’s prolonged detention has drawn outcry from lawmakers and rights groups like Amnesty International and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
CAIR: Texas GOP Lawmaker Sparks Backlash Over ‘Pakistan’ Mall Comments – National Today