CAIR-Minnesota pulled the plug on King’s engagement as keynote speaker at its Ramadan fundraiser eight hours after announcing it.
is going to have to find somewhere else to enjoy his iftar on Sunday. Originally booked to keynote a Minneapolis fundraising dinner that evening, his invitation has since been rescinded by a local branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in response to community backlash.on multiple projects, has drawn raised eyebrows in recent weeks for converting to Islam at the start of Ramadan.
His newly fledged “Uncensored Tour,” as it is called, features the self-styled “human rights leader” King and a bevy of guest speakers “for an unfiltered and uplifting discussion on current events in Gaza.” One tour stop in San Diego was advertised as a meet-and-greet with “special guest” Macklemore, only for the rapper to come forward and say he’d actually pulled out of the event days ago.All this set the stage for the outraged response to CAIR-Minnesota’s Thursday announcement.
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