America's largest Muslim civil rights organization. We protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
We just released our newest report “Hostile," documenting how universities have smeared and silenced students speaking in support of Palestinian human rights. Watch the video to learn more.
We are shocked and disturbed to learn that a landlord in Chicago expressing anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian views broke into a Muslim family's apartment and attacked them with a knife, injuring the mother and killing her 6-year-old son, Wadea Al-Fayoume.
@cairchicago
will hold a…
BREAKING: another stabbing attack on a Palestinian-American has occurred. Last night in
#AustinTX
, a group of American Muslims were driving home after a pro-Palestine protest when this man approached their vehicle at a stop sign, started screaming the n-word and other…
Pro-Israel leader Ezra Weinblatt has been arrested for allegedly attacking anti-war protesters outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, hitting one woman in the face and destroying the demonstrators' audio equipment.
Law enforcement should consider hate crime charges…
We thank elections officials for apologizing over the placement of a giant Israeli flag above the only voting machine at a Virginia polling station on
#SuperTuesday
. When Americans vote, they should not be forced to view symbols meant to make a political statement, especially…
This is Brother Zacharia, the Muslim and Palestinian-American young father who was stabbed in a hate crime after the
#AustinTX
ceasefire protest. We applaud his courage. Even after being stabbed, Zach managed to overpower and subdue his attacker. Now he's recovering and still…
@cairchicago
CAIR-Chicago's press conference with the father of the murdered boy, Wael, will be today at 3:30 central time, God willing. Please note that media reports describing him as 8 are incorrect. According to his family, he was 6. May God grant him the highest rank of Paradise, heal…
The Sheriff's Department has confirmed to our Chicago chapter that the killer, Joseph Czuba, has now been charged with a hate crime for the murder of Wadea and attack on his mother.
We are deeply disturbed & shocked by the dehumanizing comments that
@POTUS
made about the almost 7,000 Palestinians slaughtered by the Israeli government over the past two weeks. The Israeli govt has openly admitted to targeting civilians, journalists have confirmed high numbers…
Biden doesn't have confidence in the Gaza death toll: "I have no notion if Palestinians are telling the truth...I'm sure innocents have been killed & it is the price of waging war..Israel should be incredibly careful to ensure they're going after the folks propagating this war."
We are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator or perpetrators of a shooting Saturday targeting three Palestinian university students in Burlington, Vermont.
#Gaza
#CeasefireNOW
Sign our LA chapter's action alert calling on
@USC
reinstate the graduation speech of Class of 2024 valedictorian Asna Tabassum, which the school cancelled in response to dishonest attacks and harassment from anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian bigots:
Our sister
@lsarsour
is an outspoken advocate of justice for all, including the Jewish community. Smearing her and other American Muslims as anti-Semitic for supporting Palestinian human rights is predictable, despicable and unacceptable. Our political leaders must stop doing it.
Biden campaign spokesman
@AndrewBatesNC
says regarding Sarsour being on this call: “Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of anti-Semitism his entire life, and he obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS, as does the Democratic platform....
Important community update: over the past 24 hours, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian extremists have made dozens of violent threats to the Marriott hotel hosting our upcoming annual banquet.
Due to the specific nature of the threats--planting a bomb in hotel parking and threats…
Days before
@RepRashida
Tlaib's visit to Arizona for the
@CAIRAZ
banquet, a Twitter user who was monitoring a pro-Israel group’s Twitter Space about the congresswoman shared the audio recording with us. During a discussion about ways to visit Arizona and disrupt Rep. Tlaib’s…
We call on
@USC
to immediately restore valedictorian Asna Tabassum's speech and treat all students fairly and justly, starting with Asna. We look forward to USC’S swift response.
We strongly condemn
@ArizonaState
police for forcibly removing the hijabs of Muslim women who were arrested for peacefully protesting the genocide in Gaza. CAIR Arizona's attorneys are working to gather more information about this blatant abuse of the Constitution, which…
This is so very painful & enraging to watch. Our constitutional rights are being spat on in service of a genocide.
Four women at ASU had their hijabs removed by police following arrest. Here we see them remove it (all blurred) and then just put a hoodie on her head*.
We are deeply disturbed to learn of the horrific murder of Samantha Woll, leader of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit. We extend our condolences to her family, her friends and the broader Jewish community, and we stand in solidarity with all of you. 1/2
Bismillah. Community update: a second IPT "spy" has voluntarily come forward, confessed and agreed to cooperate with us. He was not part of CAIR. He was an active volunteer in a large mosque who was invited to national community meetings & events. Details in the thread... 1/8
A Palestinian-American from Tennessee was brutally assaulted by Israeli soldiers on Tuesday in the village of Turmusayya. Our government must take immediate action. The
@FBI
and
@StateDept
should launch a full & transparent investigation. 1/
At an event attended by ruling BJP party officials,
#Hindutva
groups openly called for the extermination of Indian Muslims. This is why we urgently need a
@StateDept
Special Envoy to Monitor & Combat Global
#Islamophobia
.
BREAKING: the serial shooter who killed three Muslims in
#Albuquerque
over the past nine months murdered another Muslim last night. We are raising our reward for info leading to an arrest and conviction to $10K. Submit a tip to
@ABQPOLICE
by calling (505) 843-STOP. 1/3
#India
's Prime Minister Narendra
#Modi
has the blood of Muslims, Christians, and other religious minorities on his hands. He does not deserve to be honored by our Congress. Click the link below to urge lawmakers to boycott Modi's visit.
BREAKING NEWS: CAIR just won our
#SCOTUS
case against the FBI in a 9-0 vote. Alhamdulillah, this is a huge victory in our long fight to hold the government accountable for its discriminatory, Orwellian watchlist. Anti-Muslim bigotry under the guise of national security must end.
President Biden, this is your latest reminder that Israeli soldiers are not accidentally killing Palestinian civilians while attacking military targets. They are deliberately killing Palestinian civilians and no longer bothering to pretend otherwise. Stop enabling them,
@POTUS
.
Israeli soldier admits he murdered an unarmed elderly Palestinian man who had his arms up in the air & begged to spare his life.
The other soldiers applaud & praise him for it, shake his hand, give him a pat on the shoulder & say "all the respect"!
President Biden must stop trying to playing both firefighter and arsonist during the Gaza genocide. He shouldn't have to build a pier in Gaza or airdrop food on Gaza to get humanitarian aid past the Israeli blockade, nor should he simultaneously send thousands of new bombs and…
America's largest Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian groups have released a joint statement that condemns the
@ADL
and its increasingly unhinged director Jonathan Greenblatt for spewing anti-Palestinian hate and endangering Americans who support Palestinian human rights.
Greenblatt's…
@Mondoweiss
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the massacre at al-Shifa was one of the largest in Palestinian history, estimating that at least 1,500 people had been killed, about half of whom were women and children. The organization also confirms that at least 22 patients were…
Our San Francisco Bay Area office
@CAIRSFBA
today condemned the alleged assault on Malak Afaneh, a Palestinian Muslim University of California Berkeley (
@UCBerkeley
) law student, by
@BerkeleyLaw
professor Catherine Fisk.
@ZahraBilloo
Bismillah. Today, we are releasing a statement to clarify how our civil rights group identifies
#Islamophobia
, how we address depictions of Prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him), and how we view the controversy at
@HamlineU
. Read this thread or the full statement below. 1/12
We condemn the
@CUNY
for joining dishonest, cowardly, and dangerous attacks on their own student leader, Fatima Mohammed, who has been attacked by far-right media, Mayor Adams, and multiple members of Congress & City Council for standing up for Palestinian rights. 1/6
President Biden has now passed the point of no return in his support for the genocide. By signing legislation that gives Benjamin Netanyahu another $17 billion blank check for deadly offensive weapons,
@POTUS
has betrayed the soul of our nation and disregarded the will of the…
Pres. Biden: "I just signed into law the national security package that was passed by the House of Representatives this weekend and by the Senate yesterday. It's going to make America safer, it's going to make the world safer and it continues America's leadership in the world."
We strongly condemn
@SecDef
Austin for his dishonest and delusional genocide denial, which ignores the fact that the Israeli govt made openly genocidal threats at the start of the war and has spent six months acting on those threats by sparking a famine, destroying civilian…
Bismillah. Major news out of Texas! A federal court just blocked the state from enforcing its anti-
#BDS
law against our client. This is another huge victory for both the First Amendment AND Palestinian human rights. Details in this thread... 1/10
#FreeSpeech
#FreePalestine
Antisemitism is an unacceptable & dangerous form of hatred that all Americans should reject & condemn. At the same time, using false allegations of antisemitism to smear & silence supporters of Palestinian rights is dangerous & undermines the fight against real antisemitism. 1/4
BREAKING: our snap exit poll of
#Michigan
Muslims found that 94% of those who voted in the Democratic presidential primary voted
#uncommitted
while 5% supported President Biden. If the general election were held now, 80% of MI Muslims would support a third-party candidate.
#Gaza
Israel has tortured naked Palestinian prisoners, used a tank to blow up a civilian vehicle, and massacred more than 100 Palestinians in bombings of the
#Jabalia
refugee camp. These atrocities must stop.
@POTUS
must end our nation's complicity in these horrific war crimes and…
Shocking video .
More are videos coming out which shows how Palestinian workers are detained and dehumanized by the Israeli military.
The majority of the detainees are tortured and dehumanized. I was one of them .
Thank you to our Jewish neighbors for standing up for the human rights of all people outside the
@WhiteHouse
today.
@POTUS
should pursue a ceasefire and then a just and lasting peace for the benefit of all.
BREAKING: American Jews and allies have now blocked 4+ doors to the White House. We’re prepared to put our bodies in the way of more slaughter — we’re ready to stay here until Biden forces a ceasefire.
The individual has informed us that Steven Emerson paid him $3K per month to record prominent Muslim leaders; over $100K over 4 years. One of Emerson's goals, we're told, was protecting the Israeli govt by undermining Muslims engaged in political & human rights activism. 2/8
We strongly condemn
@JasonMiyaresVA
for this dangerous and defamatory political posturing. Our legal team is in communication with
@AMPalestine
to help protect their rights. Targeting Muslim and Palestinian American organizations with baseless and irresponsible smears threatens…
My office has launched an investigation into the nonprofit American Muslims for Palestine for fundraising without proper registration and for potentially violating Virginia's charitable solicitation laws, including benefitting or providing support to terrorist organizations.…
We can take a joke,
@elonmusk
, but come on. Islam ≠ communism. Or brainwashing. Connect with us to learn more about your Muslim customers and how submission to God and God alone (i.e.,
#Islam
) can give you peace in this life and the next...peace that money & fame can never buy!
“I was wrong. I apologize.”
@JoyAnnReid
's refusal to say that tonight was telling & disappointing. Although shedding light on Islamophobia with help from
@DaliaMogahed
was welcome, you must first own your own mistakes. Don't deflect. Don't distract. Just do the right thing.
We strongly condemn the mob of pro-Israel extremists that violently attacked students at the anti-genocide
@UCLA
encampment last night, and we call on local and national political leaders to do to the same.
Last night's attack on UCLA students was only the latest incident of…
We call on the Biden administration to reject the far-right Israeli government’s “transparent” attempt to distract from the
#Gaza
#genocide
by dragging the U.S. into a regional war and instead demand that the Israeli government de-escalate the crisis it started.
#Iran
#Israel
@RepRashida
@CAIRAZ
This incident was reported to law enforcement before Rep. Tlaib arrived, and an investigation is under way. Listen to the full audio of the conversation below.
You can read more details about the charges against Ezra Weinblatt related to his alleged attack on anti-war protesters outside the Israeli embassy in DC here:
We strongly condemn the hateful attacks that far-right supporters of
#NarendraModi
have launched against journalist
@raqib_naik
. For years, Raqib & others who expose American support for Modi's anti-Muslim, Nazi-inspired extremism have been targeted with smears & death threats.
President Biden's claim that "dissent must never lead to disorder" defies American history, from the Boston Tea Party to the tactics of civil disobedience that suffragists, civil rights activists, Vietnam War protesters and anti-apartheid activists used to confront injustice.…
An individual in a dark SUV reportedly hit a man in Ohio before shouting "long live Israel" and anti-Palestinian slurs at him. We urge law enforcement authorities to fully investigate this disturbing attack and charge the perpetrator with a hate crime.
When Muslim nations, businesses & activists condemned India's far-right, Nazi-inspired
#BJP
officials for denigrating Islam & Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), the Muslim world showed that we can make a difference if we unite on our principles & deliver a unified message. 1/7
A thread 🧵
We are deeply disturbed by the racist, Islamophobic and downright psychotic words of former Obama administration official
#StuartSeldowitz
. We call on the
@WhiteHouse
and
@StateDept
to condemn him and make it clear the government will not be working with him in the future.
A Maryland doctor allegedly wrote in social media posts that Palestinians are "barbaric animals" & expressed support for their “large scale slaughter.” We urge Maryland's Board of Physicians to investigate & revoke his license if the posts are found to be authentic. 1/2
Finally, we are aware of recent comments by local CAIR staff declaring any academic display of these images Islamophobic, regardless of intent. We respect that opinion, but it does not reflect our organizational stance. This statement is now our sole official position. 11/12
Thread:
Today, we released a new paper on the rise of Islamophobia during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We accuse multiple actors - the US govt, corporations, higher ed, & social media networks - of promoting anti-Muslim rhetoric to justify the murder of Palestinian civilians.…
CAIR Issues Statement of Solidarity with
@lsarsour
, Condemns False Smear Campaign
"Smearing her and other American Muslims as anti-Semitic for supporting
#Palestinian
human rights is predictable, despicable and unacceptable."
@jvplive
@codepink
@JvpAction
President Biden: Israel's murder of
#HindRajab
, her family and the paramedics who tried to save them isn't "over the top." It's mass murder. Yet your administration keeps enabling the Netanyahu government's genocide. How many more children have to die,
@POTUS
?
#CeasefireNow
Every American should be disgusted by
@realDonaldTrump
’s continued incitement against Rep.
@IlhanMN
. American Muslims died on 9/11 too. Muslim first responders died running towards the destruction. In the backlash, Americans who were Muslim or perceived as Muslim were murdered.
Bismillah. Important news: we have disrupted an anti-Muslim hate group's effort to spy on Muslim American organizations, including our Ohio chapter. We thank God for exposing this plot to us and we thank God for protecting the community from harm. Details in this thread.... 1/13
Our MD Director Zainab Chaudry: “This incident is a perfect illustration of the difference between the two sides. While one calls for a ceasefire and an end to the slaughter of innocents, the other celebrates and threatens to murder them. This incident also exemplifies the…
Welcome to Montgomery County, Maryland...My hometown. A group of us gathered to call for an end to the carnage happening in Gaza, an end to the killing of babies...and were met with these counter-protesters
#CeasefireNOW
Video credit:
@LiteraryMouse
@MontCoExec
@MoCo360Media
…
Nearly 20,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of Israel's assault on Gaza. 70% of them have been women and children. The majority of Gaza's population is displaced and an estimated half is facing starvation.
This is a genocide.
We join
@USCMO
and the American Muslim community in reaffirming our support for the Palestinian people's right to freedom and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation, which kills hundreds of Palestinian civilians every year, subjects millions of Palestinians to racist…
Falsely claiming that Jewish & Palestinian student groups are proxies of the Iranian govt is a dangerous and defamatory slander.
@ADL
CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s outrageous comments must be condemned, and MSNBC should no longer give him a platform to peddle his hate speech.
Today, dozens of American Muslim organizations are uniting in a historic joint statement that expresses our support for Palestinian human rights and our rejection of the
@ADL
's unacceptable attack on advocates for Palestinian human rights.
1/5
“By declaring that over a million Palestinian civilians, including women and children, who refuse to leave their homes in northern Gaza will be considered terror accomplices, and therefore presumably subject to extra-judicial killing, the Israeli government is clearly announcing…
Today, we released research showing that major businesses have disregarded their own policies by ignoring the concerns of employees of Palestinian descent & releasing one-sided statements that ignore or even justify violence against Palestinian civilians. 1/3
Because the Biden administration stands almost alone on the world stage in defending and enabling the far-right Israeli government’s campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, administration officials must respond to the reported execution-style massacre of women,…
This is so powerful! Thousands of Kashmiris worldwide worked together to put up electronic billboards in Times Square in New York City to raise awareness about human rights violations in Kashmir.
Thank you, Rep.
@Ilhan
Omar, for pressing the
@StateDept
to speak out against the escalating violence and human rights abuses targeting Muslims in
#India
. India's far-right
#BJP
leaders promote violent
#Islamophobia
, and they must be held accountable.
Bismillah. We strongly condemn the hostage-taking at Congregation Beth Israel in
#Colleyville
, Texas. This latest antisemitic attack on Jewish Americans worshipping at a synagogue is an act of pure evil. 1/2
Thank you
@NBC
for meeting to discuss our concerns about
@JoyAnnReid
’s inaccurate, offensive remarks. We appreciate your pledge to avoid Islamophobia in all forms.
As we discussed, Ms. Reid must clearly apologize tonight. Anti-Muslim bigotry has no place in mainstream society.
We commend all of the Muslim community members and groups that declined invites to the
@WhiteHouse
's iftar, forcing the Biden administration to change its plans and limit its iftar to only staff. There is nothing to celebrate with
@POTUS
while he enables the Israeli government to…
Emgage received an invitation along with other Muslim American representatives to a meeting with the
@POTUS
,
@VP
, and senior team members. In consultation with our team and community, we made the decision not to attend. Here’s why, a 🧵:
At a 2019 banquet for
@CAIRNational
, she said, "You can't hate up close. Any time you have an opportunity to go talk with someone, the chances of them hating you lessen. So that is a practice we all should adopt."
@IlhanMN
@Ilhan
@PLBarghouty
@bustle
A man reportedly said "all Muslims must die" and made threats to worshippers at Chicago's Downtown Islamic Center before smashing the mosque's glass door. We urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate this incident as a possible hate crime and to step up…
A Muslim woman was assaulted with a knife following an argument over a gas pump in Minnesota. Law enforcement must crack down on the rise in anti-Muslim violence. Watch the video below to learn more.
We also want to note that this person went to his masjid leaders before being confronted, confessed, sought forgiveness and agreed to cooperate. This is what anyone who helped IPT or other hate groups should do. Come forward now. Don't wait to be exposed. Do the right thing. 4/8
Second, Emerson worked with Israeli intel officials, such as Yossi Kuperwasser and Ido Mizrahi from the office of then-PM Netanyahu. In one of these messages, Mizrahi asks IPT for information about Students for Justice in Palestine, an American college student group. 6/8
Congratulations to Nadia Kahf on her appointment to the
#NewJersey
Superior Court! Nadia is the first
#hijabi
to sit on the Superior Court bench in NJ. She once served as
@CAIRNJ
's board chair.
We are gathering and vetting additional information from this individual. We have also been directly alerting Muslim leaders and organizations he targeted. We will publicly release his name and additional information after we finish this process, God willing. 3/8