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>>22533627 Noora Shalash, Director of Government Affairs for CAIR - Kentucky went on aggressive antisemitic tirade demanding "Jihad"
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Fake News Alert: CAIR Rebuts “Blatant Lies” About Ex-CAIR-KY Staffer, Condemns Hateful Remarks
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February 7, 2025
3:52 pm
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today denounced and rebutted false claims spread by anti-Muslim and white supremacist social media accounts falsely claiming that a government affairs director at its Kentucky chapter was arrested for engaging in antisemitic harassment.
Earlier today, the false claim was originally posted by the rightwing, anti-Palestinian hate group Stop Antisemitism, which has a long history of bigotry, including describing Jewish critics of the Israeli government as “useful idiots,” “self-hating,” and “self-loathing Jews” who “use their Jewish blood as a justification for promoting vile racism and hatred toward Jews.”
CAIR immediately posted a statement noting that the woman supposedly depicted in the video does not work for CAIR or any of its chapters. Five years have passed since an individual by the same name volunteered with CAIR’s Kentucky chapter in a government affairs role.
Despite this, various rightwing and anti-Muslim accounts have continued to spread the video and falsely claim that the person depicted works for CAIR and is expressing CAIR’s views.
In a statement, CAIR said:
“We strongly condemn this blatant disinformation that anti-Palestinian racists and anti-Muslim bigots have spread online in an attempt to link our civil rights group to this video of a woman making hateful remarks.
“If the woman recorded in the video is the same person who once worked for CAIR-Kentucky, the truth is that she has not worked with our CAIR-Kentucky chapter in five years.She has no other role at our civil rights group. We condemn and reject the antisemitic comments in the video, as well as the unhinged rants about Daesh.
“These hateful comments obviously do not represent CAIR, which has vocally condemned both antisemitism and ISIS. In fact, CAIR spoke condemned ISIS’ violence so often that the group put CAIR’s executive director on an apparent hit list.”
CAIR’s mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
La misión de CAIR es proteger las libertades civiles, mejorar la comprensión del Islam, promover la justicia, y empoderar a los musulmanes en los Estados Unidos.
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/fake-news-alert-cair-rebuts-blatant-lies-about-ex-cair-ky-staffer-condemns-hateful-remarks/