Historical Organization
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Also known as: CAIR
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Organization Timeline
CAIR is founded to defend Muslim civil rights and public participation
đź“… 1 June 1994The Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded in Washington, D.C. Its own thirtieth-anniversary account identifies 1 June 1994 as the founding date. CAIR developed legal advocacy, public...
Muneer Awad obtains an injunction against Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia amendment
📅 29 November 2010A federal district court granted a preliminary injunction blocking Oklahoma’s proposed constitutional amendment excluding Sharia and international law from state courts. Muneer Awad argued that...
A federal court strikes down Oklahoma’s anti-Sharia constitutional amendment
📅 15 August 2013A federal court invalidated Oklahoma’s amendment excluding Sharia and international law from state-court consideration. The ACLU and CAIR had supported Muslim plaintiffs’ challenge to a measure that...
CAIR releases The Empowerment of Hate
đź“… 9 May 2017CAIR released The Empowerment of Hate, reporting increased anti-Muslim bias incidents and hate crimes in its 2016 data. Publishing complaints and patterns supported demands for civil rights protection...
CAIR publishes Targeted and calls for resistance to the travel ban
đź“… 23 April 2018CAIR released Targeted, its civil rights report covering documented anti-Muslim bias and legal responses during 2017. The report argued that federal action, including the travel bans, intensified...
CAIR maps philanthropic funding linked to Islamophobia
đź“… 6 May 2019CAIR released Hijacked by Hate, examining how philanthropic foundations and donor mechanisms supported organizations it identified as part of an Islamophobia network. Its intervention demanded...
CAIR demands investigation after reported assault on Muslim schoolgirl
đź“… 16 December 2021CAIR called for a hate-crime investigation after a reported assault on a Muslim high-school student in Fairfax County, Virginia, during which her hijab was allegedly removed. It also requested...
CAIR investigates charitable funding of anti-Muslim organizations
đź“… 11 January 2022CAIR released Islamophobia in the Mainstream, examining charitable funding reaching organizations it identified as part of an anti-Muslim network. It called on foundations to adopt anti-hate...
CAIR updates communities on efforts to disrupt private spying
đź“… 14 January 2022CAIR issued a community update about its investigation of alleged spying on Muslim organizations, including information it said implicated the Investigative Project on Terrorism. It explained...
Civil-rights report documents structural Islamophobia
đź“… 25 April 2022CAIR released Still Suspect: The Impact of Structural Islamophobia, reporting 6,720 civil-rights complaints received in 2021. It used the findings to demand action on discrimination affecting work,...
CAIR report warns of school discrimination despite fewer total complaints
đź“… 11 April 2023CAIR released its annual civil-rights report, recording 5,156 complaints in 2022 and the first decline in its total while warning of a sharp rise in school-related incidents. The organization urged...