Posted on 12/04/2015 10:11:36 AM PST by Red Steel
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is assuring Muslims of her support, threatening action against any "anti-Muslim rhetoric" that "edges toward violence."
Lynch, speaking at a dinner held by the Muslim Advocates, a national legal advocacy group, announced Thursday night the Justice Department will investigate the police department in Texas that arrested a 14-year-old Muslim boy who brought a device that looked like a bomb to school. Ahmed "Clock Boy" Mohamed was never charged, but several congressmen asked Lynch for the civil-rights investigation she promised Thursday.
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"When we are ruled by fear, we are not making ourselves safe," Lynch said.
She specifically criticized proposals in Congress to block Syrian refugees from the U.S.
"This is not the way," she said, and people were "simply rushing to judgment."
Assuring the pro-Muslim group that "we stand with you," Lynch said she would use her Justice Department to protect Muslims from "violence" and discrimination and vowed to prosecute anyone guilty of what she described as violence-inspiring speech.
"The fear that you have just mentioned is in fact my greatest fear as a prosecutor, as someone who is sworn to the protection of all of the American people, which is that the rhetoric will be accompanied by acts of violence," she said. "My message to not just the Muslim community but to the entire American community is: we cannot give in to the fear that these backlashes are really based on."
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I hate Islam! I guess you’ll just have to prosecute me for hate speech.
Odd, who could be knocking at my door this time of day?
I know their mothers dress them funny, especially the females.
I VOW to sign any petition that goes after Lynch after a new President is sworn in.
She is NOT doing her sworn duty to American citizens.
When did free speech become a crime??
I see that you exercised your 1st Amendment Right to Peaceful Speech.
Good job.
And, if the Dems had their way yesterday, you would be put on the no-fly list and not be able to buy a gun.
Is she Muslim ?
Just Eric Holder in Drag and Anti -American
How about Anti-christian or Anti-jewish speech?
Or are those still OK?
Well Ms. Loretta here’s my take on it.
Bite ME!
This was after the terror event. We were bussed to a fire house training center and held for hours. “For our safety”, of course.
She is just like everyone else in the Muslim’s government...she doesn’t want her ‘friends’ to be called out...she doesn’t care about our First Amendment rights, she doesn’t care about the people that are afraid to say anything, because people like her are only worried about WHO they work FOR, and not what is good for the Citizens of AMERICA...
President Trump cannot get here soon enough!!!
I said it was necessary. I never said it would happen. It has been my contention that past decade you speak of that no organized group of conservatives will start a CW. They would rather die by a thousand paper cuts.
...this monster would have never been confirmed.
Precisely.
Let me be more succinct: it’s not that a CW MAY be necessary. It is that a CW IS necessary, and HAS BEEN.
You mean I’m not? LOL!
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