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CAIR in the News, September 21, 2025

CAIR-NC: Allison: ‘This hateful stunt was meant to silence us’ – Iredell Free News

The North Carolina chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NC), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, also welcomed law enforcement efforts related to the incident.

“We strongly condemn this apparently bias-motivated act, which evokes America’s painful history of racial terror targeting Black political leaders” CAIR-NC Representative Al Rieder said in a statement. “This disturbing incident reflects the broader rise in hate-fueled political rhetoric and acts of racial intimidation targeting marginalized communities nationwide.

CAIR-MN: President Trump takes swipes at U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar in wake of attempts to censure her in Congress – CBS News

Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Minnesota, who himself emigrated to the U.S. from Somalia in the early 1990s, said many Somali Minnesotans supported President Trump this past election. The president won 12% of the vote in Minneapolis, a Democratic stronghold, but nearly double that figure in some heavily East African precincts, according to an analysis by the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Hussein called Mr. Trump’s remarks “a political statement,” but said they’ve also caused alarm. “Anytime something like this happens, we as a community are on guard, partially because we have seen political violence that took the life of Charlie Kirk, that took the life of [Rep.] Melissa Hortman, that took the life of many others, and we’re seeing those threats,” he explained. “And so that’s why we are a lot more alarmed when these things are publicly played out.”

CAIR: Mizzou denied pro-Palestine group in parade. They must allow it now, judge rules – Kansas City Star

CAIR: Court orders MU to allow Palestinian student group in 2025 Homecoming parade – KOMU

CAIR: Palestinian student group barred from Mizzou homecoming parade wins injunction case – Columbia Daily Tribune

CAIR-Texas: Man entered McKinney Muslim learning center shouting Islamophobic remarks, civil rights group says – KERA

CAIR group condemns incident at McKinney Islamic center – Star Local Media

CAIR: Open Letter: Stand Together Against Trump’s Threats to Non-Profit Organizations – Constitutional Accountability Center

CAIR: Gaza Humanitarian Fund aid sites guarded by US biker gang Infidel MC – The Jerusalem Post

CAIR: The Islamophobic biker gang running Gaza aid sites is just the U.S. empire in a leather jacket – Mondoweiss

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