CAIR-Austin in the News: French Bo's Controversial Poll

Earlier Friday, the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded French’s resignation, calling his social media poll “deeply offensive and inflammatory” in a news release. They called on French to delete the poll and issue an apology.

Shaimaa Zayan, an operations manager with the council, described French’s poll as a “blatant act of antisemitic and Islamophobic bigotry.”

“We expect elected officials and politicians to foster unity and lead with wisdom, not to promote suspicion and division,” Zayan said in the release. “By framing Jews and Muslims as potential threats to our country, this poll promotes both antisemitism and Islamophobia and adds to the unfortunately rising level of bigotry we see nationwide.”
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The language used in French's poll is "not only offensive -- it's dangerous," said CAIR-Texas board member John Floyd.
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“They didn’t really condemn the Islamophobic nature of the poll,” Shaimaa Zayan, operations manager for the Austin branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said. “That was kind of expected at this point, though.”
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