CAIR’s Back-to-School Guide Links 9/11 to U.S. Support for Israel

In the 2026-2027 school year the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) published a 16-page “Back to School Resource Guide” that included a “Muslim Studies Curriculum” page on the September 11 attacks. The page asserted that the attacks were a response to U.S. “support of Israel,” involvement in the Persian Gulf War, and the “vast presence” of U.S. forces in the Middle East. The guide recommended Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” as a reading for high-school students and offered language for discussing Gaza and the October 7 2023 Hamas-led attacks. Within a day the hyperlink to the full 9/11 unit plan was removed and the guide was withdrawn from CAIR’s website.

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CAIR, founded in 1994, is the United States’ largest Muslim civil-rights organization. It has been designated a foreign terrorist organization in Texas and Florida and has faced criticism for alleged ties to Hamas. The organization’s 2025 civil-rights report recorded 8,683 complaints of anti-Muslim discrimination, the highest number since tracking began in 1996. foreign policy.

CAIR launches back-to-school campaign on Muslim students’ rights

• Nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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• The guide was 16 pages long and part of a broader “Back to School Resource Guide” for K-12 educators.

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• CAIR’s 2025 civil-rights report logged 8,683 discrimination complaints.

CAIR launches back-to-school campaign on Muslim students’ rights

• A 2025 Institute for Social Policy and Understanding study found roughly 50 % of Muslim families with school-aged children reported religious-based bullying, compared with 23 % of families overall.

CAIR launches back-to-school campaign on Muslim students’ rights

Independent analysis of the Commission Report confirms that it lists these grievances among factors that motivated al-Qaeda but does not claim the attacks were a direct response to them. The guide’s hyperlink to the full unit plan was removed, and several referenced external links are now inaccessible, leaving gaps in the source material.

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• “Though 9/11 was not the first attack on the United States, it was a major event that marked an aggressive shift in US domestic and foreign policy, sparking the War on Terror in the Middle East.” — Furthermore

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• “I write to alert you to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’s (CAIR) efforts to influence K-12 schools … It is well documented that CAIR has deep ties to pro-Hamas terrorist organizations and publicly supports Hamas’s terrorist activities,” — Tom Cotton, senator

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