{"id":2105,"date":"2020-08-13T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2020-08-13T14:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:46:46","slug":"cair-joins-100-rights-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/cair-joins-100-rights-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Joins 100+ Rights Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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CAIR Joins 100+ Rights Groups in Denouncing ADL\u2019s Pattern of Suppressing Justice Movements, Calls on Allies to Stop Working with ADL<\/span><\/div><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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(WASHINGTON, D.C., 8\/12\/2020)\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation\u2019s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization,\u00a0today joined a broad coalition of more than 100 civil rights and human rights advocacy organizations in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>denouncing the Anti-Defamation<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/a>League\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0\u201chistory and ongoing pattern of attacking social justice movements,\u201d particularly those led by \u201cimmigrants, Muslims, Arabs, and other marginalized groups, while aligning itself with police, right-wing leaders, and perpetrators of state violence.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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The coalition also called on community organizations, advocacy groups and social justice workers to reconsider their working relationships with the ADL, stating:\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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\u201cWe cannot lift up or partner with the ADL on progressive causes, because the ADL\u2019s credibility as a social justice organization is precisely what allows it to undermine the rights of marginalized communities, shielding it from criticism and accountability while boosting its legitimacy and resources. We cannot collaborate with the ADL without betraying our movements.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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The coalition released an\u00a0<\/span>extensive report<\/a>\u00a0documenting the ADL\u2019s troubling history of 1) surveillance of progressive organizations and movements, 2) support of militarized police training exchange programs, 3) suppression of human rights and Palestinian voices, 4) support of racist and white supremacist influencers, 5) promotion of Islamophobia, 6) suppression of campus activism, 7) trampling on progressive social justice movements.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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CAIR joined the coalition in calling on allies and all those concerned with social justice to reconsider their support of the ADL and cease working with the organization in light of its ongoing anti-justice practices. It also invited allied organizations to join the coalition in its efforts to raise awareness about this issue by\u00a0<\/span>signing on here.\u00a0<\/a><\/div>
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CAIR also noted the ADL\u2019s pattern of repeatedly partnering with Islamophobic forces and disregarding Muslim sensitivities even as it condemns Islamophobia. During the controversy over the establishment of Park 51, commonly known as the \u201cGround Zero Mosque\u201d controversy, the ADL baselessly and recklessly called into question the funding sources of the community center and demanded answers to the possible connections the community\u2019s \u201cleaders might have with groups whose ideologies stand in contradiction to our shared values.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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The ADL\u00a0also called on the Islamic Center be built elsewhere. In doing so, the ADL legitimized anti-Muslim bigotry, marking itself on the wrong side of one of the most blatantly anti-Muslim moments in American history.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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The ADL has also publicly attacked various American Muslim politicians organizations for speaking out in support of Palestinian human rights, conflating legitimate condemnation of the Israeli occupation with anti-Semitism.<\/span><\/div>
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More recently, in its committed and ongoing support of right-wing Israel policies, the ADL executive director publicly joined openly anti-Semitic and Islamophobic pastors such as Robert Jeffress and John Hagee at the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, a unilateral act condemned by President Trump the international community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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In a statement,\u00a0CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell\u00a0said:<\/b><\/span><\/div>
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\u201cWe stand with over 100 other civil and human rights organizations in saying enough is enough.\u00a0A true civil rights organization should not condemn bigotry while standing with bigots. Nor should a civil rights organization advocate for anti-free speech laws, arrange for police officers to learn tactics that threaten minority communities, or smear Americans who dare to speak up for human rights abroad. And American Muslims should not partner with the ADL or any organization that engages in such conduct until they drastically change their ways.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/div>
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CAIR is America\u2019s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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La misi\u00f3n de CAIR es proteger las libertades civiles, mejorar la comprensi\u00f3n del Islam, promover la justicia, y empoderar a los musulmanes en los Estados Unidos.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>
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CONTACT:\u00a0CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper,\u00a0<\/span>202-744-7726<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>ihooper@cair.com<\/a>; CAIR Director of Government Affairs Department Robert S. McCaw,\u00a0<\/span>202-999-8292<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>rmccaw@cair.com<\/a>, CAIR Pittsburgh, Executive Director,\u00a0cmohamed@cair.com<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CAIR Joins 100+ Rights Groups in Denouncing ADL\u2019s Pattern of Suppressing Justice Movements, Calls on Allies to Stop Working with ADL (WASHINGTON, D.C., 8\/12\/2020)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation\u2019s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization,\u00a0today joined a broad coalition of more than 100 civil rights and human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}