CAIR-MI: Jail inmate suing Jackson County sheriff for not accommodating his religious fasting during Ramadan
CAIR: This Easter, Is Christianity Still Promulgating Antisemitism? – The New Yorker
(American Muslims and Arab Americans, of course, have reason to feel a new trepidation, too: complaints to the Council on American-Islamic Relations rose a hundred and seventy-eight per cent during roughly the same period.)
CAIR-SFBA: San Bruno Muslims protest mayor over denial request during Ramadan
CAIR-MI: Lawsuit alleges Jackson County officials failed to provide Ramadan accommodations for Muslim inmate
CAIR-Sacramento: Where does ethnic pride cross into politics? Sacramento museum staff report keffiyeh ban – Sacramento Bee
“People are having a harder time,” said Layli Shirani, a senior civil rights attorney for the Sacramento Valley/Central California office of the Council on American Islamic Relations. “…These events, these losses, this amount of gratuitous violence, in which we have a government that has been complicit, it creates a lot of emotional and cognitive dissonance in American citizens like myself.”
CAIR: ‘The time of Israeli impunity is fading away’ – Al Jazeera
“The far-right Israeli government continues to ignore all international laws and orders by world bodies demanding that it end its genocidal campaign of slaughter, starvation and ethnic cleansing in Gaza,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said.
CAIR: Israeli soldiers kill two unarmed Palestinians in Gaza. One of them was holding a white flag: Report – WION
CAIR Co-Hosts Baltimore Key Bridge Vigil with Masjid Ul-Haqq, ICNA Relief (Video)
CAIR-NJ: Muslim groups call for a boycott of Gov. Murphy – Press of Atlantic City
The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said they welcome any call for a cease-fire and appreciated the governor’s successful effort to bring home some Palestinian Americans from Gaza. But the group’s executive director, Selaedin Maksut, called Murphy’s statement an “empty gesture of support” because it comes “nearly six months and several thousand Palestinian bodies late.”
CAIR-NJ: Gov. Murphy calls for ‘immediate’ cease-fire in Gaza after supporting Israel
CAIR-NJ Executive Director Selaedin Maksut said in his own statement Wednesday that he welcomes any call for a cease-fire but added Murphy’s remarks are “nearly six months and several thousand Palestinian bodies late” and “deflect from the root cause of violence” in Gaza.
CAIR: Imam regrets taking part in iftar co-sponsored by Israeli embassy – The Forward