CAIR-NY: Leading Muslim advocacy group expresses solidarity with East Flatbush Church after
vandalism incident – Brooklyn Eagle
CAIR: Racist disinformation threatens US democracy – hyphen
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the US, has called for an investigation into the campaign.
“We’re seeing it in mailers, we’re seeing it on TV,” said Maggie Slavin, operations manager at CAIR-Chicago. “I’ve seen local ads saying that Suzanne Akhras is affiliated with Hamas. Her opponent has also sent out print mailers saying she is too radical.”
“Historically, we have seen the many attempts to suppress the votes of marginalized people in this country and this is yet another effort to disenfranchise voters. This comes after a strong effort to register people to vote from more Black and brown communities across Ohio for this election. It is a shameful act from Frank LaRose to add obstacles in the way of a certain group of Americans from exercising their right to participate in democracy,”said Faten Husni Odeh, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ohio.
CAIR: Who Goes on America’s Watchlist? – Swaddle
A majority of those names, moreover, are Muslim – as Mayor Mohamed Khairullah of Prospect Park, New Jersey, found out when his own name was on the 2019 travel watch list, according to leaked files obtained by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). As of August this year, two Palestinian-Americans have filed a lawsuit against the US Government for putting them on a no-fly list, allegedly because of their activism against Israel.
CAIR-GA: Local Gaza Supporters Call for Harris to Support Israeli Arms Embargo – Capital B Atlanta
The Atlanta metro area is home to a majority of the estimated 150,000 Muslims living in Georgia, according to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). They and their pro-Palestinian allies, including many young college students, could play a decisive role in November’s presidential election in a state where the last White House contest was decided by less than 12,000 votes.
CAIR: Muslim and Jewish students navigate rising tensions on campus – The Minnesota Daily
CAIR-MN: St. Anthony City Council approves mosque, community center – Star Tribune
“The center has been growing and is in need of a facility that can provide this education,” Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the council during the meeting, adding that he aims for the educational programming to help address closing the achievement gap among Minnesota’s students of color and their white counterparts.
CAIR: Jill Stein: The Green Party candidate fighting to reshape America’s political system – The New Arab