The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has criticized the Israeli Consul General’s remarks suggesting a “Muslim occupation” threat in New York. CAIR warned that such false assertions could fuel hate crimes against Muslims and Arab-Americans. In an interview with the New York Post, Consulate General Ofir Akunis said Lond...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has called on Louisiana’s Department of Education to suspend its association with PragerU. CAIR has stressed concerns over PragerU’s history of spreading ahistorical information and Islamophobia. The civil rights organization says this makes it unsuitable for inclusion in public school curricul...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has called out the complicity of university leaders in enabling recent Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. A report by the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group exposes how universities have suppressed advocacy for Palestinian human rights. It documents incidents from October 2023, revealing uni...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Maryland chapter has lodged a civil rights complaint on behalf of a 12-year-old Muslim student. The student faced harassment, assaults, and forcible removal of her hijab at Mace’s Lane Middle School in Cambridge. The child’s mother Latoya Gibbs says her daughter was harassed by peers on the bus ride...
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...
New York City has reached a $17.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by two Muslim women. It was against the police policy of removing hijabs during arrest photos. Although the city denies wrongdoing, the New York Police Department has altered its policy. It no longer mandates removing head coverings during arrests. The sett...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Washington chapter has urged the University of Washington to condemn a recent case involving hate mail. A letter targeting the Seattle Somali Student Association (SSA) sent during Ramadan contained derogatory language and called on members of the organization to “go back to their country.” The...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has applauded the resolution of a lawsuit in Kentucky relating to the violation of a Muslim woman’s rights to hijab. The woman was allegedly forced to remove her headcover and subjected to a strip search livestream at Warren County Regional Jail. The civil rights organization this week confirmed the ...
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 […]
