The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a guilty plea by an Indiana woman who was charged last year for a bias-motivated stabbing targeting an Asian student at Indiana University.
Billie Davis pleaded guilty to a violation of the Hate Crime Act and will be sentenced in December.
In 2023, CAIR condemned the attack and said “local, state and national elected officials to do more to address the growing bigotry and violence targeting the Asian-American community.” Washington, D.C., based CAIR also said Indiana’s hate crime legislation should be applied in the case.
“We welcome the guilty plea and thank law enforcement authorities for their actions in this troubling case targeting a member of the Asian community,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “With bigotry targeting minority communities on the rise nationwide, Americans of all background must speak out against hate.”
He noted that CAIR recently spoke out against anti-Asian attacks in New York, Colorado, Massachusetts, and a number of other states.
Hooper said CAIR and the American Muslim community stand in solidarity with all those challenging antisemitism, systemic anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and all other forms of bigotry.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com