CAIR Condemns Hate-Motivated Stabbing of Utah Muslim
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on elected officials and other public and community leaders to unequivocally repudiate anti-Muslim rhetoric and to reject those who promote it following the allegedly hate-motivated stabbing of a Muslim man in Utah.
According to police, the suspect allegedly admitted that he targeted the victim because of his religion. The victim was reportedly stabbed multiple times and was hospitalized with serious injuries. The suspect was also reportedly planning to commit “mass casualty events” targeting Muslims. Authorities are investigating the attack as a possible hate crime.
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In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“This horrific attack is yet another reminder that anti-Muslim rhetoric has real-world consequences. When Muslims are routinely demonized, portrayed as threats, or treated as less deserving of equal rights and dignity, some twisted individuals inevitably act on that hatred. Our nation’s political and community leaders have a moral responsibility to reject anti-Muslim hate in all its forms before more innocent people are harmed. We pray for the victim’s complete and speedy recovery and call on all Americans to stand together against anti-Muslim bigotry and every form of hatred.”
He said Washington, D.C., based CAIR has repeatedly condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric by public officials and has tied that spike in hate to growing acts of violence targeting American Muslims, like the recent deadly terror attack on a San Diego mosque.
In recent weeks, CAIR chapters nationwide have responded to a disturbing series of anti-Muslim hate incidents.
CAIR’s New York chapter (CAIR-NY) recently welcomed the arrest and federal charges against a suspect accused of carrying out a series of allegedly hate-motivated firebombing attacks.
CAIR-NY also joined a call for members of the public to provide any information that may assist law enforcement in identifying the individual responsible for a series of anti-Islamic graffiti incidents in Brooklyn and called for a hate crime investigation into a violent threat targeting the Sunnyside Muslim Center.
Earlier this month, CAIR’s Pittsburgh chapter welcomed the federal indictment of a Pennsylvania man who allegedly identified himself as a Nazi and made threats to carry out a mass shooting targeting Muslims, Democrats, Jewish people, African Americans, and other minority groups.
CAIR’s Philadelphia chapter also offered a reward for information on an arson attack on a mosque.
Washington, D.C. based CAIR’s latest civil rights report documented 8,683 anti-Muslim bias complaints in 2025 – the highest number ever recorded by the organization since it began publishing civil rights reports in 1996.
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