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Council on American Islamic Relations - Future Implications?
Posting on behalf of a buddy who's a 1L at a T25. She recently got an offer from CAIR for the summer, and now has to decide whether to take that or an in-house job in the midwest. I don't know enough about CAIR to know whether there would be negative "political" implications for future employment (apparently there have been allegations of terrorist ties, and it looks like the federal government doesn't deal with CAIR anymore because of this).
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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Re: Council on American Islamic Relations - Future Implications?
I know that legal jobs are better than nothing during the summer but if the government won't even touch it ...that sounds shady. I probably would get something more "legit" and that won't raise eyebrows. I remember some kid here was thinking about working for a marijuana legalization org and the advice was to consider impact of it before accepting.
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Re: Council on American Islamic Relations - Future Implications?
CAIR does not = marijuana legalization group.
I'm pretty sure a District Court ruled that CAIR was unfairly criticized for those donations. This seems like a situation where the concerned student should talk to their CSO, but the CAIR has been a legitimate organization for quite some time and I can't imagine firms/legal organizations would disparage someone for interning there.
Edit: http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerst ... ml?showall
I'm pretty sure a District Court ruled that CAIR was unfairly criticized for those donations. This seems like a situation where the concerned student should talk to their CSO, but the CAIR has been a legitimate organization for quite some time and I can't imagine firms/legal organizations would disparage someone for interning there.
Edit: http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerst ... ml?showall
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Re: Council on American Islamic Relations - Future Implications?
I'm sticking to my first answer - the very fact that there are news articles about legal issues/funds and courts are involved I would try to find something else. You don't know who will be interviewing you and their beliefs on the matter.
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Re: Council on American Islamic Relations - Future Implications?
It won't hurt. No government office is going to blink at seeing it on a resume, and civil-libertarian groups will like it. Private employers won't likely give an eff either, unless of course you run into a bigoted interviewer who doesn't like Muslims, but that's not a reason to avoid an interesting job.
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Re: Council on American Islamic Relations - Future Implications?
There are many of those interviewers in this country.Renzo wrote:It won't hurt. No government office is going to blink at seeing it on a resume, and civil-libertarian groups will like it. Private employers won't likely give an eff either, unless of course you run into a bigoted interviewer who doesn't like Muslims, but that's not a reason to avoid an interesting job.
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Re: Council on American Islamic Relations - Future Implications?
True, but what are you going to do about that? Make every applicant white dood who was in a frat?baboon309 wrote:There are many of those interviewers in this country.Renzo wrote:It won't hurt. No government office is going to blink at seeing it on a resume, and civil-libertarian groups will like it. Private employers won't likely give an eff either, unless of course you run into a bigoted interviewer who doesn't like Muslims, but that's not a reason to avoid an interesting job.
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