Police identify person of interest in anti-Muslim graffiti case
The graffiti was discovered early Thursday morning and documented on social media, prompting the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to call for a hate crime investigation. Jaylani Hussein, CAIR's executive director, said the vandalism is among a number of recent actions targeting Minnesota Muslims.
Israeli Ambassador Honored By ‘Anti-Islam Hate Group
The Center for Security Policy, which will be honoring Dermer with a “Freedom Flame Award,” is included in a watch list of hate groups compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the SPLC told the Forward.
Dermer is slated to accept the award a December 13 dinner. Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, is also listed as a recipient.
The CSP was founded in 1988 by Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan administration official. According to the SPLC, the group was once “a respected hawkish think-tank focused on foreign affairs” but is now “a conspiracy-oriented mouthpiece for the growing anti-Muslim movement in the United States.”
The CSP has warned against what they say is the threat of sharia, or Islamic religious law, poses to American democracy.
“For the past decade, CSP’s main focus has been on demonizing Islam and Muslims under the guise of national security,” the SPLC writes.
The Anti-Defamation League has also criticized the Center as a promoter of anti-Islamic conspiracy theories..
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