إِنَّ اللَّهَ لاَ يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّى يُغَيِّرُواْ مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ

“Indeed, Allah does not change the condition of a people unless they choose to change what is in themselves.” (13:11)

WHY Nihad Awad Must LEAVE CAIR

Nihad Awad created the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and has run it as Executive Director for nearly three decades, rising to become the most prominent Muslim civil rights leader in America. Through public documents, this website exposes Awad’s usurpation of CAIR’s noble mission to run a personal fiefdom free from accountability – breaking the trust placed in him by the Muslim community. The tragic result: the most prominent civic rights group representing Muslims is stained by corruption, discrimination, harassment, and sexual abuse.

Driven by Quranic injunction to preach good and dissuade from misdeeds (3:105), a coalition of community members have assembled these materials to help educate the community at large. We deserve to be informed with facts about Nihad Awad, who claims to speak in our name yet has escaped any meaningful accountability for his actions. Just because CAIR confronts Islamophobia does not make Awad exempt from rules expected of any leader.

NPR interviewed 18 former employees at [CAIR's] national office and several prominent chapters who said there was a general lack of accountability when it came to perceived gender bias, religious bias or mismanagement. Many of those interviewed, both men and women, asked NPR not to use their names for fear of legal or professional retaliation.
Leila Fadel
Leila Fadel
A legal battle between one of the nation's most prominent Muslim advocacy groups and one of its former senior officials threatens to escalate allegations of sexual misconduct and reveal details of the organization's internal workings. . .The lawsuit may litigate allegations of sexual misconduct from numerous former female CAIR employees spelled out in part in a National Public Radio investigation this year.
Lachlan Markay
Lachlan Markay
"The amount of women who have been reaching out to us who are like, 'I used to work for CAIR. Thank you so much for finally doing this and speaking out'. . . "So many women have basically told us that they experienced a lot of the same sexism and misogyny."
Jinan Shbat
Jinan Shbat
"They've been very resistant to growing and letting a new generation of leaders come in who may have a much deeper commitment to things like reckoning with sexual harassment or gender bias, corruption and things like unions."
Zareena Grewal
Zareena Grewal
"The leadership of CAIR owes the community an explanation as to who knew what and when and how those complaints were handled."
Parvez Ahmed
Parvez Ahmed
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Awad's Pattern of Misconduct