{"id":19352,"date":"2023-10-21T04:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T09:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=19352"},"modified":"2023-10-21T04:06:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T09:06:17","slug":"major-us-muslim-group-cancels-virginia-banquet-over-bomb-and-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=19352","title":{"rendered":"Major US Muslim group cancels Virginia banquet over bomb and death threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) \u2014 For more than 20 years the Council on American-Islamic Relations has held its annual banquet at the Marriott Crystal Gateway hotel in Crystal City, Virginia, just outside the nation\u2019s capital, according to CAIR\u2019s executive director, Nihad Awad.<br>Sporadic protests and angry phone calls targeting the Muslim civil rights group were not unusual.<br>This week, though, as CAIR shifted the focus of its banquet to emphasize support for Palestinians amid the&nbsp;ongoing war&nbsp;between Israel and Hamas, the hotel canceled Saturday\u2019s banquet at the last minute. Awad said was due to thousands of calls \u2014 some threatening violence \u2014 demanding that the hotel withdraw from the event.<br>The banquet is going forward, Awad said, but at a location that has not been publicly announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cair-cancel-banquet-bomb-threats-virginia-hotel-f2b49f869364796d911b7e7a4296e262\">apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) \u2014 For more than 20 years the Council on American-Islamic Relations has held its annual banquet at the Marriott Crystal Gateway hotel in Crystal City, Virginia, just outside the nation\u2019s capital, according to CAIR\u2019s executive director, Nihad Awad.Sporadic protests and angry phone calls targeting the Muslim civil rights group were not unusual.This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[9303,6936,23546,23545,20943,1514],"class_list":["post-19352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-bombs","tag-cancellation","tag-death-threats","tag-muslim-groups","tag-united-states","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19354,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19352\/revisions\/19354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}