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CAIR-NY: Council Speaker Urged to Act After Member’s Anti-Muslim Post – The New York Times
Afaf Nasher, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of New York, said she had participated in a meeting Ms. Menin held with Muslim leaders on Thursday during which they asked for an ethics investigation into Ms. Vernikov.
Ms. Nasher said she thought that demand was reasonable because “we know that the Council speaker, of course, exerts massive influence.” So far, she said, the speaker has pledged only to speak to Ms. Vernikov about her posts.
“Use that influence to discipline her with whatever committees and whatever votes can be taken by the Council body, including the Ethics Committee,” said Ms. Nasher, noting that Ms. Vernikov had posted about the Muslim men praying in Brooklyn under her official Council title and social media account.
“Elected servants have a responsibility to those that they serve,” said Ms. Nasher. “But when they’re using their platforms to espouse hate, is it really any wonder that we’re going to see discrimination proliferated every single day in every institution, public and private? Of course it’s not.”
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