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31 Aug 2018, 1:40 pm by lennyesq
by Lisa Vaas *** On Thursday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights group, announced that its New Jersey chapter had filed a case in federal court challenging the CBP’s “warrantless and unconstitutional seizure” of an American citizen’s phone. [read post]
18 Jun 2018, 12:15 pm
Zahra Billoo, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area, considers Amazon’s face surveillance as a threat to public safety: CAIR-SFBA works in communities that live under fear of and actual surveillance. [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 1:47 pm by John Floyd
  In 2016, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a report, Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States: Confronting Fear, that said Islamophobic groups between 2008 and 2013 had raised $205 million to spread their hatred and fear. [read post]
15 Apr 2018, 11:45 am by John Floyd
Last July, the Houston office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported that hate crimes against Muslims increased by 91 percent in the first half of 2017 compared to 2016. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
San Diego Unified School District, (SD CA, Feb. 12, 2018), a California federal district court granted a motion by defendants to strike from plaintiffs' complaint certain allegations regarding the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 6:00 am by Jonathan Bailey
With it, Hauser surrendered all profits from the book, which will be donated to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and agreed to stop selling it. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 4:16 pm by Howard Friedman
In a press release yesterday, CAIR reports:The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... today announced the filing of a lawsuit in state court against UPS Mail Innovations and Doherty Staffing Solutions for firing multiple [Somali] Muslim employees who wanted to pray during their break times after previously having allowed them to pray.The plaintiffs stated that there had been no problem with them using their break time to pray… [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 6:00 am by Yosie Saint-Cyr
On January 25, 2017, it was reported by Electronic Frontier Foundation that, “The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently filed complaints against U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for, in part, demanding social media information from Muslim American citizens returning home from traveling abroad. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 9:37 am by Andres
EFF has publicised a report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which details a new policy by US border police in which agents ask Muslim Americans returning home for travels abroad for social media handles, but also going as far as asking for access to mobile phones through handles, passcodes and passwords, and then looking at private communications in social media apps. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 12:22 pm by Ruthann Robson
Trump, attorneys with CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, have challenged the constitutionality of President Trump's late Friday EO, Protecting... [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 8:42 pm by Sophia Cope
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently filed complaints against U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for, in part, demanding social media information from Muslim American citizens returning home from traveling abroad. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 2:33 pm by Karen Gullo
” EFF was joined in its comments by American Civil Liberties Union, Advocacy for Principled Action in Government, Council on Arab-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Fight for the Future, National Immigration Law Center, and National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 12:26 pm by John Floyd
  Conspiracy Theories Good for Right Wing Book Sales   And, as for Gaubatz, he told Talking Points Memo in 2009, according to the HuffPost piece, that he infiltrated the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to “secretly collect evidence” that was used in his father’s book, “Muslim Mafia,” which charged that CAIR was also a front for the Muslim Brotherhood. [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 5:27 pm by Consuella Pachico
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit seeking to hold the Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network responsible for a contract employee at a regional chapter who falsely claimed to be a lawyer. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 1:09 pm by Tom Smith
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today unanimously reversed a trial court’s ruling dismissing a fraud case brought against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). [read post]
26 May 2016, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
The Council on American Islamic Relations yesterday announced the launch of a satirical social-media public relations campaign to combat Islamophobia. [read post]
19 May 2016, 8:51 am by Karen Gullo
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Ohio, a community service and civil rights organization that assists Muslim facing racial profiling, harassment, and discrimination, has seen a decrease in communications from its constituency of Muslim Americans. [read post]
18 Feb 2016, 6:33 am by Brittany Felder
[JURIST] The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) [advocacy website] on Wednesday filed suit [press release] on behalf of Muslim American Raja'ee Fatihah, who was denied service at an Oklahoma gun range last year. [read post]