Designated: CAIR’s 2025 Hostile Campus Ratings Report
The Council on American-Islamic Relations released “Designated: CAIR’s 2025 Hostile Campus Ratings Report,” evaluating 51 campuses that have engaged in the suppression and targeting of Muslim, Palestinian, Arab, and allied students speaking out against genocide from October 2023 to December 2025.
Islamophobia Industry, Far-Right Hindutva Apologists, Anti-Palestinian Racists Double Down on Smears Targeting U.S. Muslims as Demands for Genocide and Humanitarian Accountability Gain Momentum
As international pressure mounts to hold Israel and India accountable for systematic human rights violations, networks aligned with the objectives of both governments have intensified movements to discredit, silence, and criminalize American Muslims and other anti-genocide voices.
Epic Hate in Texas
Epic Hate in Texas Anti-Islam organizing targeting the Muslim-led EPIC City development project saw bias mobilizing the power of Texas government to deny Muslims their equal opportunities to pursue their dreams and potential. If the sharia-scare and hatred initiated by Islamophobe Amy Mek and then uplifted by Governor Greg Abbott permanently denies Texas Muslim equal […]
The Border Czar’s Inner Circle Revealed: Are Anti-Muslim Hate Groups Influencing Tom Homan’s Immigration Crackdown?
“Islam is the enemy.” These are the words of Tom Trento, founder of The United West, an organization designated as an anti-Muslim hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is also the same organization that Tom Homan – the Trump administration’s ‘Border Czar’ – has reportedly collaborated with as recently as May 2025, and even apparently tapped in 2020 to help run his border project, described as a “two-year educational program on the crisis at our southern border.”
Project Esther: The Heritage Foundation’s Anti-Palestinian Racist Roadmap to Support Genocide While Erasing Its Progressive Political Opposition at Home
The Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther weaponizes both its architects’ anti-Palestinian racism and the concept that speech critical of Israel is criminal. At the very least, Project Esther’s architects hope that voices supporting basic international humanitarian ideals–access to food, water, shelter, freedom from indiscriminate detention or murder, freedom from occupation, apartheid, and genocide in accordance with […]
Terminated: Employment Discrimination at the Core of Islamophobia and Anti-Palestinian Racism
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is today releasing a new analysis on the role of US employers in targeting Palestinians, Muslims, Arabs, and other workers who demonstrate support for Palestinian rights.
‘Hostile’: How Universities Target Anti-Genocide Protesters While Enabling Anti-Palestinian Racism and Islamophobia
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is releasing a new analysis on the disturbing role of universities in targeting students protesting against the Israeli government’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Gaza: The Resurgence of Islamophobia in 2023
Read CAIR’s new preliminary paper on the state of Islamophobia leading up to and during the ongoing attacks by the far-right Israeli government against Palestinians in Gaza, which many legal and human rights experts have indicated may constitute the crime of genocide.
U.S. Corporate Leaders Promote Anti-Arab, Islamophobic Bias
CAIR publishes list of corporate leaders who have promoted a one-sided narrative that neglects Palestinian civilians in Gaza and releases recommendations for employers.
2023: Twenty Years Too Many: A Call to Unwind The FBI’s Secret Watchlist
CAIR has studied more than 1.5 million entries on a 2019 version of the FBI’s list. One scroll through it reveals a list almost completely comprised of Muslim names.
2021: Remembrance and Resilience: American Muslims Twenty Years After 9/11
2021: American Muslims Breaking Barriers Running for Office in 2020
2021: CAIR’s 2021 Mid-Year Snapshot Summary Report of Anti-Muslim Bias Incidents
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2018: FBI Abuses Top Anti-Muslim Incidents in the First Quarter of 2018
CAIR’s 2018 first quarter report indicates that FBI-related anti-Muslim incidents were the most frequent type of anti-Muslim incident in the first quarter of 2018. Government agency-instigated incidents constituted 31 percent of all bias incidents from January to March. These numbers continue the disturbing trend witnessed last year of government agencies being responsible for at least […]
2017: Anti-Muslim Bias Incidents in the Third Quarter of 2017
In its third quarter data update on anti-Muslim bias incidents in 2017, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has documented that the overall number of anti-Muslim bias incidents is down as compared to the second quarter. However, bias incidents as a whole have risen 9 percent in the first three quarters of 2017 as compared to […]
2017 on Track to Becoming One of the Worst Years Ever for Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes
In its data update on anti-Muslim bias incidents for the second quarter of 2017, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has documented that the number of hate crimes in the first half of 2017 has spiked 91 percent as compared to the same time period in 2016. From January through June of 2016, CAIR recorded 70 […]
Profile: FBI Director Nominee Christopher A. Wray
In May, following President Trump’s dismissal of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey, over a dozen candidates under consideration for the vacant position had been mentioned by current and former government and intelligence officials. CAIR profiled those candidates’ positions on the interconnected issues of refugee resettlement, domestic spying, torture of prisoners, rendition, federal watch-lists, […]
2017: The Hate that ACT for America Wrought
ACT for America has a prejudice problem. Founder Brigitte Gabriel believes that, “America is at stage two Islamic Cancer.” She also argues that “every practicing Muslim is a radical Muslim,” a Muslim “cannot be a loyal citizen of the United States,” and that Arabs “have no soul.” On June 10, 2017, at a series of […]
2017: Facts on FBI Director Candidates
Following President Trump’s dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey, over a dozen candidates under consideration for the vacant position have been mentioned by current and former government and intelligence officials. Many of these candidates are highly regarded civil servants who have dedicated their careers to protecting the nation and promoting equality. However, some of […]
Anti-Muslim Bias Incidents 2017 Quarter One Update
Just prior to President Trump’s first official travel to a Muslim-majority country, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released an update of anti-Muslim bias incidents reported to the organization in the first quarter of 2017. In more than 50 percent of incidents, federal government agencies were identified as the instigator. The civil rights data quarter […]
2017: Borderline Constitutional Disorder
“…look to the Muslim woman as an indicating factor. By the way she wears her hijab. If the hijab is a solid color it indicates religiosity. If it’s a patterned scarf, with colors, it’s more likely that she is less religious.” – Testimony of a Customs and Border Protection official in a 2013 lawsuit as […]
2017: The Evolving Muslim Ban
Five months after President Donald Trump announced his bid for presidency in 2015, he provided the first clue to his planned offensive against an entire religious community. In a November interview with Fox News from his gilded tower in New York City, Trump announced he would have “absolutely no choice” except to shut down mosques […]
2017: The Islamophobia Network’s Surrogates
The U.S. Islamophobia Network’s ninja-like efforts to promote its astroturf Muslim pawns. On December 29, 2016, the Clarion Project, part of a network of U.S. organizations committed to poisoning America’s understanding of Islam and excluding Muslims from public life, issued a petition asking its supporters to urge President-elect Trump to meet with the Muslim Reform […]
2016: Islamophobia and the Trump Team
A number of individuals serving in the Trump Administration have a history of problematic and misleading statements about Islam and Muslims. Many of them are also connected with virulent Islamophobic groups, indicating the influence these organizations exert in the new administration. Presented here is a record of these individuals, their background, and examples of their […]
Islamophobia in Politics: A 2016 Review
When politicians exacerbate and perpetuate toxic anti-Muslim and anti-Islam prejudice, it can lead to spikes in incidents of Islamophobia. This brief on the presence of Islamophobia in politics aims to provide a snapshot of 2016, and is not meant to be a complete record of Islamophobic statements. (This does not cover the statements of 2016 […]
2015: Not in Isolation: Anti-Islam Incidents in Texas
Ahmed Mohamed, a ninth grader in Irving, Texas, brought a homemade clock to school. While such a productive use of time normally gets a student praised, Ahmed was placed in handcuffs after police were summoned. This is not the first incident where Texans who follow Islam felt were singled out. Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne […]
Toxic Hate: American Muslim Experiences of Violent Backlash Since August 2014
After Daesh (ISIS) murdered two Americans in late August 2014, Americans of all backgrounds, Muslims included, responded with rejection and revulsion. Despite abundant evidence that Daesh was also slaughtering Muslims, the vast majoirty of whom reject Daesh’s ideology, some in our country blamed all followers of Islam for the group’s actions. When the Kouachi brothers […]
Islamophobia in the 2016 Presidential Election
As of September 28, 2016, the threshold for inclusion on this list is participation in a debate hosted by the Commission on Presidential Debates. This page is intended to provide readers with insights into the presidential candidates’ views on Islam, anti-constitutional policy proposals and connections with the U.S. Islamophobia network.
Islamophobia in the 2014 Elections
The most significant anti-Islam action of the 2014 midterm election, Alabama’s Amendment 1, was approved by voters. Alabama is the eighth state to approve a law intended to vilify Islam. The measure was inspired by Islamophobe David Yerushalmi’s American Laws for American Courts legislation, which stigmatizes Muslims as a group from which the US needs […]
2013 Anti-Islam Legislation
(This is a supplement to the “Anti-Islam Legislation” section of CAIR’s “Legislating Fear: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States 2011-2012” September 2014. Full citations are available in the report’s pdf.) In 2013, 36 bills or amendments designed to vilify Islamic religious practices were introduced in the legislatures of 16 states. Party of the […]
The American Mosque 2011
AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION ABOUT ISLAM AND MUSLIMS 2006
Western Muslim Minorities: Integration And Disenfranchisement
