Florida’s targeting of CAIR, which carries profound consequences for Muslim communities in Florida and across the country. Persecuting the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization sends a dangerous message that Muslim advocacy itself is suspect. This designation threatens CAIR’s ability, and by extension CAIR Florida, to provide essential legal representation, advocacy, and community support to Floridians. This targeting also affects the broader network of Muslim advocacy and membership-based organizations nationwide who have members or partners operating in Florida. Furthermore, at a time of escalating political violence toward Muslim communities, stripping Florida Muslims in the South of access to national advocates would deny countless individuals and families critical institutional support. This should alarm any national advocacy and membership-based group that works to defend the rights of targeted community members. If states can create new designation regimes for the purpose of preventing national and local advocacy organizations from representing or supporting particular communities, it establishes a dangerous precedent. Such a framework would threaten the ability of national advocacy and membership-based organizations across issue areas to fulfill their missions.

Muslims for Just Futures condemns the SCOTUS decision to push one of the largest de-documentation of immigrants in American history.

Muslims for Just Futures is horrified by the extreme sentences handed down today in the Prairieland case. These sentences, ranging from 30 to 100 years, are death by incarceration. 

Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) sends our deepest condolences to the community of the Islamic Center of San Diego, to the families of the three martyrs whose lives were taken while protecting the community, and to Muslims everywhere carrying grief and fear in the aftermath of this act of anti-Muslim terror.

What happened in San Diego is an act of anti-Muslim terror rooted in white supremacy and decades of structural Islamophobia that has normalized the dehumanization of Muslims. Authorities say the two suspects were radicalized online, consumed racist and anti-Muslim propaganda, and openly idolized the Christchurch mosque shooter. This attack exists within the same lineage of violence that produced Christchurch, Poway, El Paso, Quebec City, and countless other attacks where Muslims and racialized communities are dehumanized and treated as existential threats to the nation.

We encourage our partners and movements to refuse the reductionist language that turns anti-Muslim terror into random “hate crimes,” “extremism,” or generalized violence. This is anti-Muslim terror that has been cultivated through decades of policies and political rhetoric that cast Muslims as permanent enemies both domestically and globally.

Today, Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) is releasing a new movement memo analyzing the strategy’s global and regional ​counterterrorism priorities, and what it signals for movements and struggles against militarism and state violence. The memo argues that the strategy represents the culmination of decades of unchecked post-9/11 counterterrorism expansion that have normalized a permanent global counterterrorism regime.