CAIR-Philadelphia: UD faces lawsuit over high school student arrest at 2023 graduation – Delaware Online
The action was announced Tuesday in downtown Wilmington, as attorneys from the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-Philadelphia, and Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., levy this civil suit against the state’s largest university…
As CAIR-Philadelphia Civil Rights Attorney Timothy Welbeck put it, in a statement: “The lawsuit seeks to ensure other young American Muslims do not face what Mohammed experienced — driving while Black and Muslim, irresponsibly brought into the criminal justice system.”
CAIR: Maryland couple among 1,300 who died on pilgrimage in sweltering Mecca – The Guardian
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest US Muslim civil rights groups, issued a statement of condolences to Wurie’s loved ones.
“We are heartbroken to learn of the untimely passing of Alhaji Alieu Dausy and Haja Isatu Wurie,” the organization said. “Their dedication to their faith and their community was exemplary, and their loss is deeply felt by all who knew them.”
CAIR-LA Condemns Events Promoting Real Estate Sale of Occupied Palestinian Land at Calif. Synagogues (Video)
CAIR-SFBA Welcomes U.S. DOE’s Probe of Anti-Palestinian Racism in Berkeley Unified School District (Video)
CAIR Maryland Director Comments on Hajj Deaths Due to Severe Heat (Video)
CAIR: ‘US-backed mass slaughter of Palestinian children’ must end, says Muslim civil rights organization – Middle East Eye
“Those responsible must be held accountable by institutions upholding international law and justice. This genocide must end and the Palestinian people must be treated as human beings,” CAIR said in a post on X.
CAIR-SFBA: CAIR Demands Condemnation of Israeli Treatment of Palestinian Detainees – KPFA
On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak with James Smith from Doctors Without Borders who recently returned to London following two months of performing emergency medical care in Gaza. We speak with him alongside Zahra Billoo, the Executive Director of the Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
CAIR-MI: Township discriminating against Islamic group by rejecting request for mosque, lawsuit says – Mlive
“It is very, very clear that what Lodi Township did, you cannot do by law,” said attorney Amy Doukoure, representing the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “You cannot take a zoning scheme and make it impossible for a place of worship to [be built].”
CAIR-MN: Lino Lakes city council votes in favor of development moratorium – KSTP
The Minnesota Council on American-Islamic relations, CAIR, calls the moratorium discriminatory.
“We’ve been fighting this is a continuation of islamophobia. That is when cities and towns use land use as a way to deny Muslims either moving in to housing or schools,” Hussein said.
CAIR-LA: L.A. talks of restricting masks at protests after violence outside synagogue – Los Angeles Times
Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations office in Los Angeles, said the site of the demonstration was chosen not because it was in front of a synagogue but because of the event it was hosting.
The protest “was in response to the blatant violations of both international law and human rights from agencies that seek to make a profit selling brutally stolen Palestinian land as the Israeli government continues its eight-month-long genocidal campaign and ethnic cleansing in Gaza,” he said in a statement.
“Elected officials and the mainstream media have politicized this incident as religious discrimination as opposed to a human rights issue,” Ayloush added.
CAIR-LA: Police patrols increased after protesters clash outside Los Angeles synagogue – NBC
Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations office in Los Angeles, said Monday that violence is never acceptable and that he welcomes a full investigation into the weekend violence.
In a statement, he stressed that the demonstration aimed to raise awareness about “blatant violations of both international law and human rights from agencies that seek to make a profit selling brutally stolen Palestinian land.”
The synagogue’s decision to host an event promoting “settlements, where only Jewish people are allowed to live, on illegally occupied Palestinian land is deplorable and antithetical to the morals that faith institutions should uphold,” the statement said. “Elected officials and the mainstream media have politicized this incident as religious discrimination as opposed to a human rights issue. We call on political leaders to condemn the organizations involved in the potentially illegal sale of Palestinian land and the counter-protesters who commit violence against anti-genocide protesters with the same fervor used for rightfully condemning antisemitism.”
CAIR-LA: LA Mayor Karen Bass vows more security, proactive policing after protest clash in front of synagogue – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
In a statement Monday, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said “elected officials and the mainstream media have politicized this incident as religious discrimination as opposed to a human rights issue.” He also called for an investigation into the violence, but condemned the real estate event at the synagogue Sunday as “promoting the sale of land located in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.”
“The demonstration in front of the Adas Torah synagogue over the weekend was in response to the blatant violations of both international law and human rights from agencies that seek to make a profit selling brutally stolen Palestinian land as the Israeli government continues its eight-month-long genocidal campaign and ethnic cleansing in Gaza,” Ayloush said in a statement. “The decision by Shaarey Zedek and Adas Torah synagogues to host events promoting racially segregated settlements, where only Jewish people are allowed to live, on illegally occupied Palestinian land is deplorable and antithetical to the morals that faith institutions should uphold.
CAIR-LA: Biden and Democratic Leaders Condemn Protest Outside L.A. Synagogue – New York Times
Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that protests should never involve violence, but also that the right to speak out should not be limited.
Israeli real estate events, he said, “could have been hosted at a Motel 6 or a mosque, and they would still be subject to protest.”
CAIR-LA: Bass to Meet With LAPD Chief Following Violent Pico-Robertson Clashes – MyNewsLA
In a statement Monday, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, called for an investigation into Sunday’s violence, and also condemned the real estate events “promoting the sale of land located in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories.”
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