ANTI-INDIA CAIR ANGERS WHITE HOUSE BY SUPPORTING HAMAS

CAIR has been asking the State Department to designate India as a country of particular concern for 'violating religious freedom of minorities'.

- BADAR BASHIR

The Joe Biden administration, last week, ended its work with the long-standing anti-India body, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), after one of CAIR’s top executives declared he was “happy” to witness Hamas’ terror attack against Israel on 7 October.

CAIR claims to be the United States’ largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, in which capacity it has been in the forefront of lobbying against India. It has been frequently asking the State Department to designate India as a country of particular concern. Country of particular concern (CPC) is a designation by the US Secretary of State (under authority delegated by the President) of a country responsible for particularly severe violations of religious freedom under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). Countries such as China and Russia have been designated as CPC. Earlier in June this year,