The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has urged American Muslims and citizens of other faiths to participate in nationwide protests on Saturday. The demonstrations aim to mark eight months of violence and suffering in Gaza and demand President Joe Biden’s intervention to halt US support for Israel’s war. CAIR emphasized the need f...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has denounced the recent joint Israel-US assault in Gaza’s “safe zone” Rafah, labeling it as genocidal brutality. At least 40 people were killed in an Israeli bombing of a tent housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday. America’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group criticized the B...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is suing Gov. Greg Abbott and two Texas university systems for violating students’ First Amendment rights. The Muslim civil rights group claims Abbott’s executive order on antisemitism aims to silence Palestinian activists. The suit targets Abbott, the University of Texas System, and the University of...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called for a thorough investigation of Arizona State University’s alleged forcible removal of hijabs of a group of Muslim women at a pro-Palestine rally on campus. Video footage from the rally suggests at least four instances of hijab removal during arrests by the school’s police officers. ...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has urged a hate crime investigation against pro-Israel leader Ezra Weinblatt. This follows Weinblatt’s alleged assault on anti-war protesters outside the Israeli Embassy. Weinblatt, a board member of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, faces charges of property destruction a...
LONDON (AA) – Six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times at his home in Illinois, US, by his landlord, who was screaming anti-Muslim slurs as he brutally attacked the little boy. Just moments before, the assailant, 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba, told the boy’s mother, Hanaan Shahin, who was also stabbed and criticall...
New York, United States – AFP An imam who was shot on Wednesday outside a mosque near New York has died, a US official told AFP. Police in the city of Newark, New Jersey, did not give a motive for the incident. “Hassan Sharif was a Transportation Security Officer at Newark Liberty International Airport since […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, Palestine supporters across the globe have been facing repercussions, ranging from harassment and threats to being fired from their jobs. Prominent cases of sackings include journalist Zahraa Al-Akhrass, who was fired from Canadian television news outlet Global News for social media post...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Stuart Seldowitz, a former Obama administration adviser, who was captured on video making threats and Islamophobic comments against a Muslim food vendor in New York City, has been arrested and faces hate crimes charges, local media reported. Seldowitz, 64, faces charges including aggravated harassment and several counts o...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – A civil rights group on Tuesday released audio from X Spaces (formerly Twitter Spaces) that appeared to show pro-Israel activists planning to target Michigan US Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Tlaib, the first woman of Palestinian descent in the US Congress and one of its first Muslim women, was scheduled to visit Arizona [&hellip...
