Muslims to Mob Border in Order to Assist Immigrants

·  CAIR Demands State Department’s Intervention to Ensure Hunger-Striking U.S. Citizen Held in West Bank Is Not Tortured Further

“We demand confirmation that Ms. Darjbara’s rights are being respected and that she is not being tortured in detention,” said CAIR National Litigation Director Lena Masri. “Americans should feel safe knowing they can travel under the protection of the United States government.”

o    CAIR: Former New Jersey Resident on Hunger Strike in Palestinian Jail (North Jersey Record)

·  CAIR: Attacks on Marc Lamont Hill will Only Strengthen the Solidarity Between Blacks and Palestinians (Huffington Post)

By trying to destroy Hill’s career, his critics have engendered sympathy for him, particularly in the African-American community, and forced the broader public to reckon with the merits of his message.

Going forward, the scholar-activist will likely use the spotlight cast on him to help many more Americans recognize that everyone in the Holy Land should be able to live in peace, freedom and dignity — and that no one should be fired for saying so.

Nihad Awad, a Palestinian-American, is the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization. Edward Ahmed Mitchell, an African-American attorney, is the executive director of CAIR’s Georgia chapter.

·  CAIR Opposes Nomination of ‘Unqualified and Islamophobic’ U.N. Ambassador Nominee Heather Nauert

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Trump administration to withdraw its nomination of Heather Nauert for the position of U.N. ambassador, saying she is “Unqualified and Islamophobic.”. . .

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CAIR said Nauert promoted Islamophobic smears while employed as a Fox News anchor.

In 2013, she criticized special swim classes for a group of Somali-American girls, describing the classes as the “minority becoming the majority at one community pool. Sharia law is now changing everything.”

In a 2009 Fox special on “stealth jihad,” she interviewed Islamophobic panelists, including notorious Islamophobes like Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney and Nonie Darwish, who claims that “Islam should be feared, and should be fought, and should be conquered, and defeated, and annihilated.” Nauert has also defended Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric.

Nauert previously bashed refugee students in Pennsylvania for wanting “an even better” public education and falsely claimed that child migrants from Central America were “an illegal health risk.”

Other than her current position as State Department spokesperson, Nauert has no apparent diplomatic or government experience or expertise.

“Heather Nauert does not represent our nation’s diversity or its commitment to treating all Americans with equality and respect,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. 

“Such an important post should not be occupied by someone who is clearly unqualified and Islamophobic,” said CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw. “There are many other individuals who do have the knowledge and background necessary for this post. Ms. Nauert’s nomination should be withdrawn.”

·  CAIR Chapter Reps to Join National Faith Leaders at San Diego Border Action in Support of Asylum Seekers

Representatives of Muslim civil rights group will take part in solidarity action in support of ‘Love Knows No Borders: A Moral Call for Migrant Justice’

On Monday, December 10, representatives of chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, will join hundreds of other faith leaders from around the nation at a solidarity action for asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego as part of the “Love Knows No Borders: A Moral Call for Migrant Justice” mobilization, organized by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).

San Diego solidarity event participants will demand an end to border militarization and call for “humane immigration policies that respect the rights and dignity of all people.”

American Muslim leaders from across the nation — including Sheikh Omar Suleiman, Imam Suhaib Webb, Ramon Mejia, and Yasmine Taeb — will also take part in the solidarity event.

WHAT: Love Knows No Borders: A Moral Call for Migrant Justice
WHO: CAIR Representatives from California, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Along with Hundreds of National Faith Leaders
WHEN: Monday, December 10, 10 a.m. (Pacific)
WHERE: Location to Be Announced Closer to Date
CONTACT: CAIR-San Diego Advocacy and Policy Coordinator Mejgan Afshan, 619-867-7514, mafshan@cair.com; CAIR-AZ Executive Director Imraan Siddiqi, 480-704-3786, isiddiqi@cair.com; CAIR-LA Communications Manager Eugene W. Fields, 714-776-1847, efields@cair.com; CAIR-SV Communications Manager Kalin Kipling, kkipling@cair.com, 916-441-6269; CAIR-SFBA Executive Director Zahra Billoo, zbilloo@cair.com, 626-252-0885; CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid, 248-842-1418, dwalid@cair.com