Council on American-Islamic Relations

The Council on AmericanIslamic Relations (CAIR) is a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. It is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., with regional offices nationwide. Through civil rights actions, media relations, civic engagement, and education, CAIR promotes social, legal and political activism among Muslims in America. Critics of CAIR have accused it of pursuing an Islamist agenda which CAIR has rejected and described as an Islamophobic smear campaign.