Video: CAIR-Florida Media & Outreach Director Wilfredo A. Ruiz Discusses the American Muslim Community (Spanish)
CAIR calls on UGA to drop charges against students arrested during pro-Palestine protest – FOX 5 Atlanta
CAIR: UGA 6 call for suspensions, conduct violation charges to be dropped – redandblack.com
The NAACP and the Council on American-Islamic Relations have called on Gov. Mike Parson to halt Williams’ execution.
CAIR: Missouri Supreme Court and Governor Reject Bids to Block Execution – New York Times
The N.A.A.C.P., the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Representative Cori Bush of Missouri had implored Governor Parson to show mercy, saying that Mr. Williams was wrongfully convicted and that no physical evidence ties him to the crime.
CAIR: Despite Claims of Innocence, Marcellus Williams Faces Execution Today In Missouri – Essence
CAIR: With hours until MO execution, Marcellus Williams’ life in hands of U.S. Supreme Court – Kansas City Star
CAIR: Interfaith advocates urge clemency for ‘death row imam’ a day before scheduled execution – Religion News Service
“He’s the lead Muslim religious leader for Muslims in his prison. And he’s by all reports, you know, a respectful and respectable man who has made the most of his horrible situation and does not, should not be dying for a crime he did not commit,” said Edward Mitchell, national deputy director of CAIR.
CAIR: Marcellus Williams Execution: Lawyer Asks Supreme Court To Intervene – Newsweek
CAIR: Missouri Supreme Court, governor decline to halt execution of Muslim inmate prosecutors believe may be innocent – Anadolu Agency
CAIR: Calls for US Arms Embargo as Israel Kills Nearly 500 in Lebanon – Common Dreams
“An immediate arms embargo on the far-right Israeli government is urgently needed to stop American weapons, paid for by our nation’s taxpayers, from being used in the latest slaughter in Lebanon or in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which apparently now includes an ‘extermination zone’ in which all living beings will be subject to killing,” said Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) national deputy director Edward Ahmed Mitchell in a statement.
CAIR-FL: Orlando police investigate officers’ use of force on pro-Palestine protesters – Orlando Sentinel
The footage drew condemnation Monday from the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which called for criminal charges against the officer who shoved Moukaddam.
“There is no place in Florida for police excessive use of force,” the chapter’s communications director, Wilfredo Ruiz, said in a news release. “Law enforcement’s response to free speech cannot be police brutality; it must be the opposite. Police have an obligation to protect and safeguard the rally attendees exercising their constitutionally protected rights.
CAIR: After Ted Colbert, Darryll Pines Faces Scrutiny in the Crosshairs of DEI Pushback – Black Engineer
Student activists, however, were quick to push back. SJP, with support from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Palestine Legal, filed a lawsuit against the University System of Maryland, Pines, and other university officials. The lawsuit alleges that the cancellation violates the First Amendment rights of the students by censoring their viewpoint and argues that no adequate legal basis exists to prevent the event.
CAIR-SFBA: Feds To Pay $893K Fee Award To Travel Ban Challengers – Law360
CAIR-Austin: Travis County changes policy to allow Muslim detainees to keep hijabs on during booking – Daily Texas
After pro-Palestine demonstrations on campus in April, multiple female Muslim UT students reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations that law enforcement removed their hijabs during their arrests and bookings.
The policy change follows legal “intervention” from CAIR after the protests. CAIR-Austin Operations Manager Shaimaa Zayan said in a press release that the group has been working with the sheriff’s office since May to “enhance understanding of Islam and build mutual respect.” Zayan declined to comment further on details about the intervention.
CAIR-MN: Lino Lakes council censures member for applauding anti-Muslim email – Star Tribune
Jaylani Hussein, CAIR-MN’s executive director, continued to argue that Lyden should resign.
“You need to resign, and the rest of you need to hold him accountable,” Hussein said.
CAIR-MN: St. Anthony: Zoning request for community center, mosque expected to be voted on Tuesday – Pioneer Press
Since the end of May, after the Tibyan Center announced plans for the building, it has been vandalized and broken into seven times in two months, according to the Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR officials asked law enforcement to investigate whether the incidents were motivated by bias. Additional security measures have been added to the property, according to the applicants.
CAIR-MN: Lino Lakes censures City Council member who praised anti-Muslim email – Sahan Journal
CAIR-MI: A spat has been brewing between Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Rep. Rashida Tlaib – Deadline Detroit
Meanwhile, the Michigan chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a statement Monday calling the antisemitic allegations against Tlaib a “blatant and hateful hoax.”
CAIR stated in a press release that the issue was perpetrated “by the rightwing outlet Jewish Insider and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who have falsely claimed that Rep. Rashida Tlaib accused Nessel of prosecuting 11 anti-genocide protesters at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor because she is Jewish. Tlaib never made such a comment.”
CAIR-MI: Michigan Attorney General Nessel calls U.S. Rep. Tlaib’s accusation of bias anti-Semitic – Detroit Free Press
The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Michigan chapter, Dawud Walid, celebrated Whitmer’s comments. “We welcome Governor Whitmer declining to support the stifling of freedom of speech through prosecutions, and her verbal support that all people including anti-genocide student protesters have the right to feel safe at the University of Michigan,” he said in a statement in a news release Monday.