CAIR-Austin: Austin launches expanded ‘Know Your Rights’ resource for police interactions – Austin American-Statesman
Shaimaa Zayan, operations manager for the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Austin chapter, helped shape the language of the materials. She said community organizations encouraged the city to simplify legal language and include scenarios reflecting the experiences of immigrants, English-language learners and religious minorities.
“There is a lot of fear and there is confusion about what to do and what not to do, and what your rights are,” Zayan said. “But I feel this will help.”
CAIR-MI: Anti-Semitic flyers found in Oakland County cities in latest case of vulgar literature being distributed – FOX
CAIR: In Congress, bipartisan support for Israel is eroding – WORLD
Robert McCaw, government affairs department director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, called the July Massie amendment vote a “watershed moment.”
“Although 314 House members voted to continue this funding, [this] vote showed that the era of nearly unanimous congressional support for Israel is ending,” McCaw told me in an email. “The 104 members who voted ‘YES’ sent an unmistakable message: American weapons, intelligence and taxpayer dollars must no longer be used to violate human rights, entrench illegal occupation or fuel ever-expanding wars across the region.”
CAIR: US Mosques Experience 183% Rise in Bias Attacks – American Community Media
CAIR: ‘He presented a gun’: Dispute over Islamic mosque turns violent at New Mexico Catholic parish – EWTN News
CAIR: Interfaith leaders rally against Islamophobia after priest threatened following mosque support – Albuquerque Journal
The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Thursday sent a news release in support of Chávez and said that the organization “welcomes the assault charges” and appreciated law enforcement for taking the alleged threat seriously.
“Standing against anti-Muslim hate and supporting the right of every community to worship freely should be recognized as an act of moral leadership, not one that invites threats or harassment,” the council wrote.