{"id":2187,"date":"2020-11-09T16:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T21:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2020-11-09T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T21:26:03","slug":"cair-congratulates-president-elect-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/cair-congratulates-president-elect-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2187\" class=\"elementor elementor-2187\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b98f6da elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b98f6da\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-56d3cc1\" data-id=\"56d3cc1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-908c4f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"908c4f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">CAIR Congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden, Vows to Hold Biden Administration Accountable on Muslim Inclusion, Civil Rights, Racial Equality and Just Foreign Policy<\/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<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-526a05e elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"526a05e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3eff182\" data-id=\"3eff182\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6a086c0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6a086c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"gl-contains-text\"><table width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"editor-text editor-text \" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><div class=\"text-container galileo-ap-content-editor\"><p><strong>(WASHINGTON, D.C., \u2013 11\/7\/2020)<\/strong><span><span> \u2013<\/span><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation\u2019s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization CAIR, today congratulated President-elect Biden on his victory and encouraged the incoming administration to promote civil rights, racial equality, a just foreign policy, and the inclusion of American Muslims in diverse government roles.<\/span><\/p><div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92bf240 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"92bf240\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\"><div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><p><strong>SEE: Joseph R. Biden Jr. elected 46th president of the United States<\/strong><\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/ap-calls-presidential-race-for-joe-biden\/507-0b004523-a4ed-4965-9154-c3c9b1cb071f\">https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/ap-calls-presidential-race-for-joe-biden\/507-0b004523-a4ed-4965-9154-c3c9b1cb071f<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>In a statement,\u00a0<strong>CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad<\/strong>\u00a0said:<\/p><p><em>\u201cCAIR congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden on his electoral victory, and for building an inclusive election campaign focused on the unity of our nation.<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cPresident-elect Biden has pledged to end the Muslim Ban on his first day in office, include Muslims at every level of his administration and address issues of racial and religious discrimination.<\/p><p><em>\u201cWe plan to join other American Muslim leaders and organizations in ensuring that the Biden administration fulfills these promises. We also plan to continue holding our government accountable when it errs.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p><strong>Awad said<\/strong>\u00a0the American Muslim community is a key resource for state and national policy-makers, and is urging Congress and President-elect Biden to\u00a0enact and implement the following civil rights reforms:<\/p><ul><li><strong>Ending bigoted and discriminatory immigration policies<\/strong>\u00a0such as the Muslim and Africa travel bans, the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, \u201cextreme vetting programs\u201d, and the detainment of asylum seekers;\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Mandating state and local law enforcement to report use-of-force incidents<\/strong>\u00a0to a federal database as a condition of receiving federal funding and requiring equal treatment of the American Muslim community by federal law enforcement and the criminal justice system;\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Defending Constitutional rights in schools, the workplace, and elsewhere<\/strong>\u00a0by supporting the adoption of new policy strategies to address religious-based bullying in schools by state and federal departments of education, and protecting Middle Eastern studies courses and Palestinian student activists from the Department of Education\u2019s attempts to suppress free speech on college campuses;\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Supporting faith-based initiatives<\/strong>\u00a0by ensuring American Muslims equal access to federal and state aid available to those impacted by COVID-19, requesting HHS provide more funding to American Muslim clinics, and providing greater capital access for faith-based communities, including American Muslims;\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Establishing equity in federal government hiring practices<\/strong>, including the overhaul of vetting systems that rely on biased Islamophobic resources and the promotion of Muslim-American ideas and employment;\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Ending the national security overreach<\/strong>\u00a0by reforming the unconstitutional Terrorist Screening Database, rejecting new domestic terrorism statutes, and defunding DHS anti-radicalization initiatives biased toward the Muslim community, including the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention grant program, and its predecessor, the Countering Violent Extremism grant program.<\/li><\/ul><p>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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>END\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p><p><strong>CONTACT:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ihooper@cair.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ihooper@cair.com<\/a>; CAIR Director of Government Affairs Department Robert S. McCaw, 202-999-8292,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:rmccaw@cair.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rmccaw@cair.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/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":"<p>CAIR Congratulates President-Elect Joe Biden, Vows to Hold Biden Administration Accountable on Muslim Inclusion, Civil Rights, Racial Equality and Just Foreign Policy (WASHINGTON, D.C., \u2013 11\/7\/2020) \u2013\u00a0The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation\u2019s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization CAIR, today congratulated President-elect Biden on his victory and [&hellip;]<\/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-2187","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\/2187","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=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2190"}],"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=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}