According to a press release, Joe "Chip" Pitts, Amnesty International USA Chair, will be discussing " the root causes behind the twin phenomena of Islamophobia and anti-Americanism as well as positive and practical solutions" at the Council on American-Islamic Relations Annual Conference. Pitts notes in the press release:

There's no question that Muslims in the United States and around the world have borne the brunt of the latest war-on-terror measures.... [T]he truth is that Muslims have been US society's latest scapegoats in the current environment of fear.