AhlulBayt News Agency: Maryland’s attorney general should reinstate Zainab Chaudry to the state hate-crime commission, a number of Muslim groups reiterated.
It came following Chaudry’s ouster for her social media posts against the Zionist regime.
Chaudry is the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Maryland director and was suspended from her role on Maryland’s hate-crime commission after she compared Israel to Nazi Germany on Facebook last week.
CAIR officials and two dozen Muslim organizations now want the attorney general to restore Chaudry.
“Like Zainab, many members of the Maryland community have been critical of the Israel government’s horrific crimes against the Palestinian people,” CAIR’s letter to the attorney general said. “As you know, the Israeli government has bombed residential buildings, refugee camps, hospitals, ambulances, mosques and churches, killing over 13,000 people, most of them women and children.”
“Israeli leaders have also made genocidal remarks about the Palestinian people, calling them ‘human animals,’ claiming that there are ‘no innocent civilians’ in Gaza, and threatening to ethnically cleanse millions of people,” the letter continued. “Suspending Zainab for criticizing the Israeli government’s horrific crimes and for expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people is unacceptable. This attack on her is an attack on all of us and we will not accept it.”
A number of prominent Maryland Muslim organizations signed the letter, including the Academy of Muslim Achievement, American Muslims for Palestine, Anne Arundel County Muslims Council, Baltimore Area Muslims, Baltimore County Muslim Council, Family Rights for Religious Freedom, House of Worship LLC, Justice For All, Masjid Mustafa, Maryum Islamic Center, Montgomery County Muslim Council (MCMC) Muslim Family Center, Muslim Outreach and Volunteer Enterprise, Muslim American Society MD, the Tunisian United Network, United Maryland Muslim Council, among others.
Chaudry was suspended after she posted anti-Israel comments on Facebook last week. In one, she posted a photo of Israeli flags at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin next to a photo of Nazi Germany flags at Brandenburg in 1936, captioning the post: “That moment when you become what you hated most.” Chaudry has repeatedly called Israel’s aggression on Gaza a “genocide.”
The former official has continued to post in support of Palestinians since her suspension.
“Any pushback we get for standing up for justice and exposing Israel’s crimes is nothing compared to what Palestinians are experiencing,” she said on Facebook. “Never stop speaking up for Palestine.”
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It came following Chaudry’s ouster for her social media posts against the Zionist regime.
Chaudry is the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Maryland director and was suspended from her role on Maryland’s hate-crime commission after she compared Israel to Nazi Germany on Facebook last week.
CAIR officials and two dozen Muslim organizations now want the attorney general to restore Chaudry.
“Like Zainab, many members of the Maryland community have been critical of the Israel government’s horrific crimes against the Palestinian people,” CAIR’s letter to the attorney general said. “As you know, the Israeli government has bombed residential buildings, refugee camps, hospitals, ambulances, mosques and churches, killing over 13,000 people, most of them women and children.”
“Israeli leaders have also made genocidal remarks about the Palestinian people, calling them ‘human animals,’ claiming that there are ‘no innocent civilians’ in Gaza, and threatening to ethnically cleanse millions of people,” the letter continued. “Suspending Zainab for criticizing the Israeli government’s horrific crimes and for expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people is unacceptable. This attack on her is an attack on all of us and we will not accept it.”
A number of prominent Maryland Muslim organizations signed the letter, including the Academy of Muslim Achievement, American Muslims for Palestine, Anne Arundel County Muslims Council, Baltimore Area Muslims, Baltimore County Muslim Council, Family Rights for Religious Freedom, House of Worship LLC, Justice For All, Masjid Mustafa, Maryum Islamic Center, Montgomery County Muslim Council (MCMC) Muslim Family Center, Muslim Outreach and Volunteer Enterprise, Muslim American Society MD, the Tunisian United Network, United Maryland Muslim Council, among others.
Chaudry was suspended after she posted anti-Israel comments on Facebook last week. In one, she posted a photo of Israeli flags at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin next to a photo of Nazi Germany flags at Brandenburg in 1936, captioning the post: “That moment when you become what you hated most.” Chaudry has repeatedly called Israel’s aggression on Gaza a “genocide.”
The former official has continued to post in support of Palestinians since her suspension.
“Any pushback we get for standing up for justice and exposing Israel’s crimes is nothing compared to what Palestinians are experiencing,” she said on Facebook. “Never stop speaking up for Palestine.”
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