On Tuesday, March 10, the San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, will hold a news conference at its office in Santa Clara to highlight findings from CAIR’s 2026 civil rights report, title The Right to Be Different.
To obtain an embargoed copy of the report, media professionals may email: csaylor@cair.com
WHAT: News Conference to Release CAIR’s 2026 Civil Rights Report
WHO: CAIR-SFBA Civil Rights Attorney Bismah Jaffer, CAIR-SFBA Immigration Rights Managing Attorney David Tarr, CAIR-SFBA Civil Rights Managing Attorney Jeffrey Wang, and impacted community members.
WHEN: Tuesday, March 10, at 11 a.m. PT
WHERE: CAIR-SFBA, 3350 Scott Blvd., Bldg. 48, Santa Clara
LIVESTREAM: Instagram
RSVP: CAIR-SFBA Communications Manager Lorrie Adam, ladam@cair.com, 408.498.5779
The new report reveals that complaints of discrimination and bigotry submitted to CAIR remain at a record high for the third year in a row as public officials abuse their offices to narrow the definitions of what Americans can look like, say or believe.
The 2026 iteration of CAIR’s annual analysis of Muslim civil rights in America shows a pattern of governmental actions and rhetoric from public officials treating Muslims— especially those who speak up for Palestinian human rights— as suspicious and outside the circle of protected religious and civic life in 2025.
CAIR researchers conclude that the push to fan the flames of hate against American Muslims and other minorities has the impact of raising the cost of lawful participation in American life for those who practice disfavored faiths or dissent from government sanctioned narratives.
Since 1996, CAIR’s annual reports on the status of American Muslim civil rights document anti-Muslim incidents that were reported to CAIR in any given year. The reports also usually include sections on specific civil rights and civil liberties issues confronting Americans of the Islamic faith in the year under review.
SEE: CAIR Civil Rights Reports 1996-2025
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CONTACT: CAIR-SFBA Communications Manager Lorrie Adam, ladam@cair.com, 408.498.5779