Under Nihad Awad’s leadership, the CAIR-Foundation National office has refused to set clear written policies on Zakat donations despite repeated...
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.
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.
"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."
"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."
Under Nihad Awad’s leadership, the CAIR-Foundation National office has refused to set clear written policies on Zakat donations despite repeated...
Just like Awad himself, CAIR’s identity is not as straightforward as you would expect. When you visit the CAIR website,...
Awad has bought at least 8 apartments in DC through a front organization, Greater Washington LLC of Delaware. (Read more...
Awad directly intervened to block the hiring of a chapter leader solely based on her religious beliefs, and political opinions....
In Federal Court documents, we learn that Nihad Awad himself is alleged to have engaged in sexual harassment against a...
In March 2001, Ms Tannaz Haddadi, a Shia Muslim, wrote an official complaint letter to both Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmed, CAIR’s...
An inordinate number of CAIR’s former staff member erase their former affiliation with the group once they leave it. CAIR...
Awad prevented his staffers from unionizing, thus denying them the ability to have bargaining power to obtain better salaries and...
Awad violated the law governing nonprofit organizations by failing to meet the minimum standard of professionalism and ethical responsibility.Nonprofit organizations...