{"id":4305,"date":"2010-06-24T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2010-06-30T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T18:46:09","slug":"cair-seeks-hate-crime-probe-of-new-vandalism-at-tenn-mosque-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4305","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Calls Upon Authorities to Probe &#8216;Islamophobic&#8217; Incident in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> June 24, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called upon local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to\u00a0view the June 24<sup>th<\/sup> vandalism of a Tennessee mosque as a hate crime. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad has &#8220;attributed such behavior to the overall rise of Islamophobic sentiment in American society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Awad said the following regarding the incident,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Because of the hate-filled and un-American opponents of the planned mosques expansion, it is essential that a possible bias motive for this latest act of vandalism be investigated. The hostile sentiments expressed in a recent public hearing on the proposed mosque reflect ignorance of the basic tenets of Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to this percieved rise in &#8216;Islamophobia,&#8217;\u00a0 CAIR has\u00a0suggested that\u00a0American Muslim individuals and institutions\u00a0review the CAIR produced\u00a0\u201c<a title=\"Permanent link to CAIR Muslim Community Safety Kit\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3365\">Muslim Community Safety Kit<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-seeks-hate-crime-probe-of-new-vandalism-at-tenn-mosque-site-97088854.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-seeks-hate-crime-probe-of-new-vandalism-at-tenn-mosque-site-97088854.html<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-la-calls-fbi-questioning-of-muslim-men-outrageous-96817564.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/mosque-Tennessee.pdf\">(PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: June 24, 2010 Description: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called upon local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to\u00a0view the June 24th vandalism of a Tennessee mosque as a hate crime. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad has &#8220;attributed such behavior to the overall rise of Islamophobic sentiment in American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[115,125,122,126,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-federal-agencies","category-islamophobia","category-law-enforcement","category-io-statelocal-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}