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The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Thursday said it has been forced to move its annual banquet after the original venue and its staffers were targeted with multiple terror threats, which the Muslim civil rights group said was in response to support for Palestinian human rights amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.... Copyright 2021 The Associated Press.
The group said the Marriot had received anonymous phone calls threatening to plant bombs in the hotel’s parking garage, kill hotel staffers and “storm the hotel in a repeat of the Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol” if the banquet took place at the hotel. CAIR said the decision to move the event was prompted by the sheer number of threats, along with their inability to get additional security from local police.Crucial Quote
“We will not allow the threats of anti-Palestinian racists and anti-Muslim bigots who seek to dehumanize the Palestinian people and silence American Muslims to stop us from pursuing justice for all,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said.that government officials and news outlets were “fanning an atmosphere of hate and dehumanization, not seen since the aftermath of 9/11.
and his mother stabbed by their landlord in Illinois in an incident that law enforcement authorities linked to the conflict in the Middle East.from the Oval Office on Thursday evening, President Joe Biden raised the issue of hate crimes targeting both Muslims and Jews in America and said: “We must, without equivocation, denounce antisemitism. We must also, without equivocation, denounce Islamophobia.
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