Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Friday, February 26, 2021 DAWN, CAIR and CodePink to Respond to Release of U.S. Intelligence Report on Murder of Washington Post Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Later today at 3 p.m. ET, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) plans to join representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and CodePink to host a virtual news conference to offer a response to the White House release of an intelligence report concluding that Saudi Crown... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, January 06, 2021 CAIR Condemns Rahm Emanuel for Anti-Muslim 'Sunnis and Shiites' Trope, Says He Is Unfit to Serve in Biden-Harris Administration The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned Rahm Emanuel for “demeaning and Islamophobic comments” the former Chicago mayor made about Sunni and Shia Muslims during election coverage on ABC News last night... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, December 10, 2020 CAIR Condemns Senate’s Failure to Block ‘Corrupt and Dangerous’ UAE Arms Deal, Calls on President-Elect Biden to Block Sale The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the U.S. Senate's decision to permit the Trump administration's "corrupt and dangerous" 23-billion-dollar arms sale to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and called on... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, August 14, 2020 CAIR Condemns President Trump’s Fascist Attack on Vote by Mail, U.S. Postal Service The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned President Trump for his “unapologetically fascist and unconstitutional attack on the American people" following his admission that he is purposefully blocking... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, July 22, 2020 CAIR Applauds U.S. House Passage of Legislation Repealing Trump's Muslim and African Bans The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for today's vote to pass the NO BAN Act (H.R. 2486, formerly H.R. 2214) and urged U.S. Senate Republican leadership to support the... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, January 15, 2020 CAIR Welcomes Md. Judge's Ruling Blocking Trump's Order on Refugee Resettlement The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a ruling by a Maryland judge stating that President Donald Trump cannot give state and local governments "veto power" to reject refugees from resettling within their... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, November 19, 2019 CAIR, 54 Other Civil Rights Groups Demand Removal of White Supremacist Trump Adviser Stephen Miller The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today joined 54 other civil rights organizations in sending a letter to President Donald Trump demanding that he fire Stephen Miller as his senior adviser for policy for propagating... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, November 13, 2019 CAIR Calls for Resignation of Trump Adviser Stephen Miller After Revelation of White Supremacist Emails The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest American Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called for the resignation of senior adviser to the president Stephen Miller following the Southern Poverty Law Center’s revelation of a series of white supremacist,... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, September 24, 2019 CAIR Submits Written Testimony for Congressional Muslim Ban Hearing The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, today submitted a written statement to the joint congressional oversight hearing on the Trump administration’s Muslim Ban by U.S. House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Immigration... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, August 21, 2019 CAIR Condemns Trump’s Anti-Semitic ‘Disloyal’ Slurs Targeting American Jewish Community The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned Trump’s doubling-down on his recent anti-Semitic slurs targeting the American Jewish community as “disloyal” if they vote for the opposing political party. Earlier... Read more |