(WASHINGTON DC, 6/13/2022) – Today and tomorrow (June 13 and 14), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will join the US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), the nation’s largest American Muslim civil society umbrella organization, for its 7th annual National Muslim Advocacy Day at the US Capitol.
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During the advocacy day, activists and delegates from national, state, and local Muslim organizations will meet with congressional offices to discuss the most pressing issues impacting American Muslims in today’s political climate.
WHAT: 7th Annual National Muslim Advocacy Day
WHEN: June 13 and 14
WHERE: United States Capitol
CONTACT : CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, [email protected] ; CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, [email protected] ; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, [email protected]; CAIR National Communications Coordinator Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, [email protected]
Among the issues being advocated for, USCMO advocacy day delegates will be calling on Congress to pass the Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Jan Schakowsky’s Combating International Islamophobia Act (HR5665 / S.3384) legislation to address the rise in incidents of Islamophobia worldwide.
Passed by the US House of Representatives in December , the legislation requires the State Department to create a Special Envoy for monitoring and combating Islamophobia and include state-sponsored Islamophobic violence and impunity in the Department’s annual human rights reports. A Senate companion to the bill was introduced by Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Ben Cardin (D-MD), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Last year, over 550 delegates participated in the National Advocacy Day. In 2019, more than 500 delegates participated.
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