CAIR-WA: SPS won’t reschedule graduations that fall on Muslim holiday – Seattle Times
“Students practicing their right to religious expression should not be excluded from educational spaces, nor denied reasonable accommodation,” Hannah Vickner Hough, CAIR-WA’s legal director, wrote. “A graduation ceremony with one’s classmates is a formative experience for most students and the district should seek to provide appropriate arrangements to assure Muslim students are not unfairly excluded from this experience.”
CAIR: N.Y.C. Public Schools Will Send 8th Graders to Visit Holocaust Museum – The New York Times
Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the national deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also supported the use of field trips to “help students of today recognize and oppose modern genocides, whether in China, Sudan, Myanmar, Gaza or anywhere else.”
CAIR: Dismantling Islamophobia with Compassion and Understanding
Corey Saylor, the Director of Research and Advocacy from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) commented: “In 2022, our numbers showed the first-ever drop since we started tracking incidents,” he says. “And then to see all of that erased, it’s real insight into how easy it is for someone to just flip the Islamophobia switch back to on.”
CAIR-Minnesota Director Says String of Bias Incidents Targeted Mosques Statewide (Video)
CAIR-Minnesota Staffer Injured in Possible Hate Crime Hit-and-Run (Video)
CAIR-MN: Man arrested for possible hate crime after hit-and-run at Minneapolis mosque – NY Daily News
CAIR-MN: Police investigate potential bias motive in hit-and-run at Minneapolis mosque – MPR