CAIR-Philadelphia

CAIR-Philadelphia today called on Darby Township School at Southeast Delco School District to acknowledge alleged harm, fully investigate and rectify any missteps that led to a 6th grade Black Muslim student at Darby Township School reportedly to be humiliated and forced to kneel by his homeroom/math teacher. 

As many of you may have followed on national media, our broader CAIR network was targeted by an Islamophobic group. We wanted to share CAIR-National’s message about this attack on our communities, including information about the former CAIR-Ohio employee who collaborated with this anti-Muslim group.

In the wake of the November 2021 attacks on eight Asian American youths by four Black youths on a SEPTA train, we, the undersigned, urge the Philadelphia community and our leaders to challenge the longstanding inadequacies of the traditional juvenile justice system and seize this opportunity to integrate transformative justice for a comprehensive resolution and healing for our communities. 

CAIR-Philadelphia voices its support for the Asian students attacked on a SEPTA train by other students -- including one who was visibly Muslim. In conversations with its AAPI partners, CAIR-Philadelphia emphasized: "Regardless of the background of the incident, the students who used physical and discursive violence against others are in the wrong. CAIR-Philadelphia stands unequivocally against violence, irrespective of the faith or ethnicity of the victim or perpetrator."

CAIR-Philadelphia joins the #BoycottHilton Coalition* of more than 40 American and international organizations, with an educational leafleting campaign on Saturday, Oct. 16, outside Hilton Worldwide hotels in Philadelphia and Allentown over that corporation’s licensed construction of a Hampton Hotel on the site of a bulldozed mosque in the Uyghur region of China.