A Decade of CAIR-ing for Civil Rights
Mass. chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations looks back on 10 years of advocating for Muslim rights S ome of the kids were hit and some had their hijabs pulled off. One boy was put in a headlock, punched and sent to the hospital with a broken nose and concussion. Most were harassed and called anti-Muslim and anti-Arab slurs. In total, nearly half of the students who identified as Muslim and were surveyed in a report by the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on
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