America's largest Muslim civil rights organization is asking state and local governments across the country to remove or change the name of anything named after Confederate sympathizers.

Nihad Awad, national executive director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, told the Daily Caller on Monday that doing so would be a "fitting response" to the deadly domestic terror attack that took place over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In that attack, James Fields, an alleged white supremacist, plowed over a group of people on a pedestrian walkway in downtown Charlottesville, killing one woman, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, and injuring 19 others.

White supremacists showed up in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general.

The Charlottesville attack led a number of cities and towns to announce the removal of other Confederate statues. One of those cities was Lexington, Kentucky, whose mayor announced that the attack "accelerated" his plan to ask a local board to relocate two Confederate statues.

Other cities, such as Gainesville, Florida, and Baltimore also announced plans to remove Confederate statues just since Saturday.

Maryland Democratic House Speaker Michael Busch also voiced support Monday to remove a Confederate statue from the front lawn of the Maryland statehouse in Annapolis.

"It's the appropriate time to remove it," Busch said, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Busch said that leaving the statue up "would send a message that we condone what took place, that slavery is all right."

The call to remove every Confederate reference in the country came around the same time that vandals in Durham, North Carolina, toppled a Confederate statue, CNN reported.

Now, after these cities and states indicated that Confederate statues should come down, CAIR is taking it one step further.

Awad told the Daily Caller that the Muslim civil rights organization wants to scrub every last Confederate reference.

"A fitting response to the deadly terror attack on anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville would be for officials in states and cities nationwide to immediately announce that every street, every school, every flag and every public memorial honoring those who took up arms in defense of white supremacy and slavery will be removed or have its name changed to instead honor those who fought for civil rights," Awad said.

The CAIR executive director said that doing so "would be a small step forward in turning the page on the darkest period in our nation's history."

Comment: It doesn't sound like the left is looking for peaceful resolution to the building tensions in the US, instead they're pouring gasoline onto a nasty fire.

Exactly They want to throw the first punch. They better put them in a museum.
And pray that will end it. Or tear down all the black statues. I cant think of one. The better give them something or there will be trouble.

Trump and the states Should start doing something before we have 1500 Riots.
One for each statue in every town that has one.

this too will pass,,,

really? how long have different 'groups' asked for this or that or the other,,

in this day and age and under this POTUS , noone in their right mind could be expecting a 'fitting' response to anything, not that this individuals opinion of what is 'fitting' is not debatable to begin with


The individual who was responsible will be held accountable, the family of the person killed will receive justice for their deceased loved one. That will suffice.

Perhaps we will start a fear campaign against the dangers of 'hate group terrorism' but I doubt it. Individuals tend to be seen and treated as individuals when they are not a member of any minority.

Now if this had been a muslim or 'member' of BLM doing the same thing,,,,different narrative altogether would be sweeping the country and noone would be focusing on a statue,,,or anyones desires for it.

muslims have as much to with OUR civil war as peanut butter and pineapples...

too bad mankind didn't heed the warning on
casting graven images for themselves, now once
again we shed our brothers blood...over what ?

then they're Americans... they would have a right to voice, and i would have a right to reject it because it still has nothing to do with them...