Terror ties and “hostility toward Israel” are directly relevant to a civil suit challenging the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) work with San Diego public schools, plaintiff’s attorneys argued in court papers filed Friday.
CAIR helped the San Diego Unified School District develop an anti-bullying program. But five local families and two community groups sued last spring, claiming the program elevated Muslim students above others. The school board agreed to stop working with CAIR in July, acknowledging that CAIR is a religious group and the partnership may cross the line on church-state separation.
The ligation continues, however, and the school board asked the court last month to strike references to CAIR’s anti-Israel positions and its connections to Hamas from the case, saying they were irrelevant.
