WASHINGTON, March 24 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release on March 23, 2026:

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CAIR Welcomes Guilty Plea in Hate Crime Targeting Black Man in South Carolina

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a guilty plea by a man who admitted to firing a gun in the air to intimidate his Black neighbor in South Carolina.