CAIR Civil Rights Reports

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 report also usually includes sections on specific civil rights and civil liberties issues confronting Americans of the Islamic faith in the year under review.

Our first civil rights report, “A Rush to Judgment,” was produced following the 1995 attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, when some commentators initially blamed Muslims for the bombing.

CAIR’s reports on the status of American Muslim civil rights from 1996 through 2009 can be found below. In 2010, CAIR initiated a review and update of its civil rights database. After a hiatus, during which the organization invested significant resources to improve case intake, investigation, management, and classification processes the annual civil rights report was relaunched in 2017.

CAIR Civil Rights Reports