The Illinois Republican Party has called on the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) to cut its ties with CAIR (which it terms a “Hamas Linked group behind Anti-Israel Rallies”).
ICIRR responded here. (ICIRR rejects Illinois GOP anti-Muslim hysteria)
I am pleased to note that the Jewish Muslim Community Building Initiative (which I have been closely involved), which is an effort spearheaded by Chicago’s Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, reacted immediately and called on its supporters to contact Republican politicians in Illinois and ask the party to retract its statement.
