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  • CAIR Urges GOP to Disinvite Dutch Islam Hater Geert Wilders from Cleveland Convention

    CAIR Urges GOP to Disinvite Dutch Islam Hater Geert Wilders from Cleveland Convention

    (WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/18/16) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Republic Party to disinvite notorious Dutch Islamophobe Geert Wilders from its national convention in Cleveland.

    Wilders noted last night on Twitter that he had arrived to attend the convention at the invitation of the Tennessee Republican Party.

    SEE: Dutch Politician Who Says the Quran is Worse Than Mein Kampf is Attending the RNC (more…)

  • CAIR Livestream Event Muslims to Challenge GOP Islamophobia at Cleveland Convention

    CAIR Livestream Event Muslims to Challenge GOP Islamophobia at Cleveland Convention

    Muslim civil rights group will distribute free packets of “ISLAMOPHOBIN,” a mock-medicine designed to “cure” Islamophobia

    (CLEVELAND, OH, 7/17/16) – On Monday, July 18, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, will hold a news conference at the site of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, to challenge the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim stance of the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump and of other party officials and representatives.

    MEDIA NOTE – CAIR’s news conference will be livestreamed on its Facebook page at:https://www.facebook.com/CAIRNational (more…)

  • CAIR Muslim Leaders to Challenge GOP ‘Politics of Fear’ at Cleveland Convention

    CAIR Muslim Leaders to Challenge GOP ‘Politics of Fear’ at Cleveland Convention

    (CLEVELAND, OH, 7/15/16) – On Monday, July 18, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, will hold a news conference at the site of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, to challenge the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim stance of the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump and of other party officials and representatives.

    WHAT: CAIR GOP Convention News Conference to Challenge Republican Party Islamophobia

    WHEN: Monday, July 18, 10:30 a.m.

    WHERE: Downtown Cleveland on “Mall A” (Across from Key Tower, Between St. Clair Ave. NE & Rockwell Ave, Just Off of West Mall Drive)

    WHO: National and local Muslim leaders, including CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad; CAIR National Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw; CAIR-Cleveland Executive Director Julia Shearson; and others

    CONTACT: CAIR-Cleveland Chapter Executive Director Julia A. Shearson, 216.440.2247, jshearson@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202.744.7726, ihooper@cair.com

    “It is time the GOP and its presumptive presidential nominee repudiate Islamophobia and the politics of fear targeting Muslims and other minority groups,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.

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  • CAIR-Cleveland Joins Press Conference on Purchase of Riot Gear for RNC

    CAIR-Cleveland Joins Press Conference on Purchase of Riot Gear for RNC

    (CLEVELAND, OH, 3/22/2016) – The Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations joined more than 20 civil and human rights groups at a joint press conference yesterday in front of Cleveland City Hall to address what they assert are significant potential problems regarding plans for the procurement of equipment and deployment of personnel from the Cleveland Division of Police at the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland July 18-21.

    The groups issued an open letter to the Mayor and City Council calling on Cleveland City Council to pass a de-militarization resolution, committing the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP) to de-commission any purchased military-type equipment after the RNC.

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