As Muslim students across the world are fasting for the month of Ramadan, Connecticut’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR is hoping to see accommodations for students.
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The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has alerted state officials to an act of anti-Islamic hate speech at the Cheshire Correctional Institution. CAIR-CT sent a letter to Department of Correction Commissioner Angel Quiros Sunday and copied it to the Office of the Attorney General.
In its letter, CAIR-CT said that last month several copies of a fake incident report were found in a printer at the state prison in Cheshire. Hateful language in the report was directed at Shem Brijbilas, a Muslim correctional officer.
Farhan Memon, chairman of CAIR CT, said the document “. contains both offensive language and it also includes coded references to neo-Nazi and white supremacist language.”
Farhan Memon speaks in a YouTube video posted Sunday, calling for the Department of Correction to terminate Officer Anthony Marlak.
A Muslim civil rights group has asked the Connecticut Department of Correction to terminate the employment of an officer who allegedly posted Islamophobic content on social media.
The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, posted a video Sunday outlining its demand that the DOC terminate Officer Anthony Marlak.
CAIR first learned of Marlak’s offensive post in 2019. It depicts five Muslim men hanging from a noose with the caption “Islamic wind-chimes.” CAIR says that Marlak added the comment, “Think I found the best meme on the planet!!”