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In Michigan, CAIR voiced concerns over an amendment to the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, advocating that the amendment's LGBT rights provisions include faith protections. [125] [126] CAIR and several other Muslim organizations have opposed mandatory “sexually-themed lessons” in Montgomery County, Maryland. These lessons include LGBT ...
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) states that it is "the largest Arab American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States." [1] According to its webpage, it is open to people of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities and has a national network of chapters [2] and members in all 50 states.
The MLFA's flagship project is the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America, which is a nonprofit law firm directed by attorney Charles Swift.The center focuses on two primary missions: (1) "Challenging governmental security measures affecting Muslim communities which encroach upon the constitutional liberties guaranteed to all" and (2) "protecting the rights of Muslim individuals and ...
Formed in 1994 by a group of young Muslim activists concerned about the rise in anti-Muslim discrimination, CAIR is now the biggest Muslim civil rights group in the US and includes about 33 local ...
USCMO officially announced its formation on March 12, 2014 at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The organizations that participated in the launch include The Mosque Cares, Muslim American Society (MAS), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA), Muslim ...
"Policies that result in discrimination against entire communities are wrong and fail to keep us safe." The Council on American Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, called the strategy ...
Sporadic protests and angry phone calls targeting the Muslim civil rights group were not unusual. ... the Zionist Organization of America’s director of research and special projects, said in a ...
It is the largest Arab American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States. Former US Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar is the current president. ADC is at the forefront in addressing anti-Arabism - discrimination and bias against Arab Americans. It also advocates what it calls a more balanced US policy towards the Middle East. [11]