{"id":4929,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2010-10-20T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T16:30:17","slug":"cair-accuses-town-board-of-sidney-ny-of-anti-muslim-sentiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4929","title":{"rendered":"CAIR accuses town board of Sidney, NY of anti-Muslim sentiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> October 14, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The town board of a Sidney, NY, a small town 130 miles  north of New York City, questioned the legality of a muslim graveyard.  After pressure from the muslim community, the town dropped legal actions  and allowed the Sufi Muslim group to maintain the graveyard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We  believe that it is no coincidence that this group was being asked to   exhume the remains of its deceased members from the cemetery at a time   when anti-Muslim sentiment has spread across the nation,&#8221; said CAIR-NY&#8217;s  Civil Rights director Aliya Latif. <strong> <\/strong>&#8220;We call on the  town supervisor Robert McCarthy to publicly apologize  to the Muslim  community and the families of the deceased for seeking to  dig up the  bodies of those that rest at this burial site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-10-14-muslim-graves_N.htm\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-10-14-muslim-graves_N.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Sidney-NY.pdf\">(PDF Backup)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: October 14, 2010 Description: The town board of a Sidney, NY, a small town 130 miles north of New York City, questioned the legality of a muslim graveyard. After pressure from the muslim community, the town dropped legal actions and allowed the Sufi Muslim group to maintain the graveyard. &#8220;We believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[115,123,122,126,223,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-elected-officials","category-islamophobia","category-law-enforcement","category-io-statelocal-government","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}