by CAIR Washington | Mar 25, 2024 | Blog
Policy Associate Najma Osman reflects on CAIR-WA’s 2024 Muslim Day at the Capitol: Day of Action for Gaza. Muslim Day at the Capitol (MDAC) 2024 was held on February 29 in Olympia, Washington. This year, the half-day event was a time for Muslims in Washington...
by Katie Walker | Mar 25, 2024 | Press Release
(SEATTLE, WA, 3/25/2024) – The Washington chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the University of Washington to speak out against a piece of hate mail...
by Katie Walker | Mar 22, 2024 | Press Release
(SEATTLE, WA, 3/22/2024) – The Washington chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA), today called on the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) to immediately make necessary changes to ensure that Muslim people detained at NWDC can receive proper...
by Katie Walker | Feb 15, 2024 | Press Release
(Seattle, WA, 2/15/2024) — The Washington state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, welcomes a hate crime investigation into a recent attack in Seattle. According to the...
by Katie Walker | Jan 11, 2024 | Press Release
(SEATTLE, WA, 1/11/2024) – The Washington chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomes the arrest of a suspect in connection to the death of 31-year-old Abdulkadir...
by Katie Walker | Jan 5, 2024 | Press Release
(SEATTLE, WA, 1/5/2024) – The Washington chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today mourns the death of another rideshare driver in Washington. A 31-year-old Somali-American...
by Katie Walker | Sep 5, 2023 | Blog
Community Steps Up to Help Immigrant Justice Project Client Recently, one of CAIR-WA’s Immigrant Justice Project (IJP) attorneys learned that a client of hers needed extra financial assistance to make his asylum interview in Washington. When our community...
by Nina Shapiro | The Seattle Times | Aug 16, 2023 | Blog, In The News
Imam Farid Sulayman in Seattle sues over mysterious FBI watchlist “The imam believes he’s been put onto a federal government watchlist aimed at identifying known or suspected terrorists attempting to travel into or throughout the U.S. But he’s received no...
by Katie Walker | Jul 24, 2023 | Blog
CAIR-WA’s Immigrant Justice Project (IJP) got its first asylum case approval! Two years ago, the U.S. evacuated troops from Afghanistan. In August 2021, the Taliban took over and many Afghans fled the region. Washington has welcomed many Afghans to our state....
by Katie Walker | Jul 10, 2023 | Press Release
(SEATTLE, WA, 7/10/2023) – The Washington chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the public to help identify two individuals caught on video burglarizing the...
