{"id":3228,"date":"2009-10-01T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2010-04-13T14:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T18:30:18","slug":"cair-minnesota-meets-with-customsborder-officials-targets-schoolsemployers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"CAIR-Minnesota meets with customs\/border officials; targets schools\/employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Fall 2009<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAIR Minnesota Civil Rights Director  Taneeza Islam was interviewed in the Fall 2009 &#8220;The Rights Stuff&#8221;  newsletter published by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>In  the interview she details influence exerted by CAIR on local schools  and employers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Usually the students who contact us  feel that the school  administration           is not doing what they  need to do, so <strong>we contact the schools  directly           and try to  work it out<\/strong>.\u00a0 There are also some situations where students are  asking to  pray during           school time. What we do is to <strong>educate  the Muslim population on  what           their rights and obligations  are, and then do the same with  the schools           and the employers<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She goes on to discuss CAIR interactions with national security  agencies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve already had people on our board who  have recently traveled, and then been asked questions that are against  the first amendment. <strong>So those are the trainings that we&#8217;ve started to  do more now \u2014 what are your rights at the airport and when interacting  with federal agents&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve had several meetings with local customs and border patrol here  in Minneapolis&#8230;<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrights.state.mn.us\/education\/articles\/rs09_3muslims.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.humanrights.state.mn.us\/education\/articles\/rs09_3muslims.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/The_Rights_Stuff_Fall_2009.pdf\">(Local Backup PDF 437KB)<\/a>, p.23<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hat tip: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?cat=222\">ChiefSnipe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: Fall 2009 Description: CAIR Minnesota Civil Rights Director Taneeza Islam was interviewed in the Fall 2009 &#8220;The Rights Stuff&#8221; newsletter published by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. In the interview she details influence exerted by CAIR on local schools and employers: Usually the students who contact us feel that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,222,138,125,126,153,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16","category-chiefsnipe","category-academia","category-federal-agencies","category-law-enforcement","category-national-security","category-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}