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Video: 'Anti-Muslim Extremist’ One America News Host Dan Ball Smears Arab American Heritage Month CAIR: Zionist Doxxing Campaigns Upended Their Lives. Now They’re Suing for Damages. - Truthout A reckoning could be coming for pro-Israel groups known for doxxing Palestine advocates. In March, the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) filed a class-action lawsuit in Illinois state court against the organizations Canary Mission and StopAntisemitism, as well as groups and individuals identified as their funders or board members. CAIR: Calls grow to release Virginia Tech PhD student from ICE custody - WUSA The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, is also calling for Azizi to be released. “The Trump administration is once again using ICE as a secret police to target those who speak out against injustice and war crimes. Detaining Mr. Azizi allegedly because of his criticism of the illegal U.S. war on Iran is an egregious violation of civil and human rights and our Constitution. We call on the administration to release Mr. Azizi immediately,” CAIR said in a statement.  CAIR: Florida's leaders see terrorists behind every bush - Florida Phoenix CAIR: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor: The Case for Asylum - Informed Comment In February, the Kairos Center (the organization I direct) authored an interfaith amicus brief on that very case, alongside 31 denominations and organizations representing faith traditions practiced by billions worldwide. Those groups, including the Alliance of Baptists, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Hindus for Human Rights, the Latino Christian National Network, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Reconstructing Judaism, the Union for Reform Judaism, the Unitarian Universalist Association, the General Synod of the United Church of Christ, and the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, joined together to declare that our societal obligation to provide for persecuted outsiders is a universally shared moral principle. CAIR: Trump explains surprise reason he decided to ‘praise Allah’ in unhinged posts – The Mirror US Trump's comments were slammed after they were posted. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a nationwide advocacy group, responded by attacking Trump’s “deranged mocking of Islam.”