(NEW YORK, NY, 3\/4\/2026) –\u00a0The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), a chapter of the nation\u2019s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the NYC Council\u2019s decision to pursue disciplinary action against Queens Council Member Vickie Paladino for her repeated Islamophobic posts on social media.\u00a0Council Member Paladino,\u00a0a Queens Republican,\u00a0will\u00a0face\u00a0formal disciplinary proceedings\u00a0in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In now-deleted social media posts,\u00a0Paladino has called for the\u00a0\u201cexpulsion of Muslims from western nations\u201d and\u00a0referred to\u00a0New York Mayor\u00a0Zohran\u00a0Mamdani\u00a0praying with Muslim sanitation workers as \u201cpart of Islamic conquest.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
SEE: NYC Council Charges Councilwoman Over Islamophobic Social Media Posts<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n SEE ALSO: City Council moves to discipline Queens Republican over Islamophobic posts<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n In a statement, CAIR-NY Executive Director Afaf Nasher, Esq.,\u00a0said: \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe applaud the action taken against Council Member Vickie Paladino on Monday.\u00a0Her\u00a0egregious, bigoted\u00a0remarks\u00a0targeting Muslim-Americans\u00a0on social media are\u00a0deeply troubling.\u00a0No council member, who has representative power\u00a0and a responsibility to serve all New Yorkers, should be able to\u00a0spread such Islamophobic rhetoric without\u00a0just\u00a0accountability.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n CAIR-NY’s mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims. \u00a0<\/p>\n La misi\u00f3n de CAIR-NY es proteger las libertades civiles, mejorar la comprensi\u00f3n del Islam, promover la justicia, y empoderar a los musulmanes en los Estados Unidos. \u00a0<\/p>\n Subscribe to CAIR-NY’s Email List <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n You can help contribute to CAIR\u2019s work of defending civil rights and empowering American Muslims across the country by making a one-time contribution or becoming a monthly donor. Supporters like you make CAIR\u2019s advocacy work possible and defeating Islamophobia an achievable goal. Click here to donate to CAIR.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n END\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n CONTACT\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Afaf Nasher, Esq. CAIR-NY Executive Director, ANasher@cair.com\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n CAIR-NY Communications Team, comms@ny.cair.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(NEW YORK, NY, 3\/4\/2026) –\u00a0The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY), a chapter of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-152896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}