Posted on 08/31/2017 10:16:32 AM PDT by jazusamo
The United State Department of Justice has issued subpoenas to force a Christian pastor in Virginia to disclose under oath his views on Islam.
Pastor Steve Harrelson of the Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church in Boston, Virginia, has been served with a wide-ranging subpoena by lawyers for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. The subpoena demands his presence to testify under oath in response to questions from Justice Department lawyers about his views on Islam as well as several other issues:
DOJ Subpoena listing documents targets must provide to the government Harrelson is not a party to any lawsuit or other action brought by the Justice Department. He is a private citizen. The Justice Department subpoena also demands that the pastor bring any papers or documents that he has to his deposition with government lawyers that relate to or mention Islam and turn them over to the government.
In addition to Harrelson, other Christian third-party private citizens have also been subpoenaed to reveal under oath their views on Islam and to deliver any documents they possess related to Islam to federal attorneys.
The Justice Department case alleges that Culpeper County refused to grant a permit to allow the Islamic Center of Culpeper to pump and haul away sewage. The case was brought under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. The mosque purchased land that was unsuitable for a septic system at the time of purchase.
The United States Department of Justice is pursuing the case against Culpeper County and forcing a Christian pastor and other Christians to testify under oath about their views on Islam even though the mosque itself has already settled all claims with the county . (Full settlement here ).
The fact that the mosque settled with the county led one federal judge to call into question the Justice Department’s zeal to continue to pursue the case even though the purported victim is satisfied and will be building a mosque:
At a federal court hearing Friday at which the county argued to dismiss the suit for a second time, Judge Moon sided with Culpeper in providing his take on the sustained complaint, saying the continued litigation still puts the Islamic Center at odds with the county.“It’s an artificial division of a settlement agreement. They tried to come together, said they would try to live together peaceably, now it seems you are putting a wedge between the county and the Islamic Center of Culpeper,” he told the federal attorney arguing against dismissing the case. The Justice Dept.’s continued pursuit of the lawsuit does not help the Islamic Center, Moon added.
The underlying action is a controversial civil court case alleging that Culpeper County discriminated in zoning decisions regarding an application to build a mosque. The case was filed a month after President Trump was elected but before the inauguration by Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta . It has continued with unbroken zeal.
Federal law prohibits discrimination in zoning practices against religions. During the Obama administration, a radical new argument was pressed by DOJ lawyers: that zoning boards can be saddled with any "naked animus or resistance from the community." In other words, if some people don't want a mosque in the community, then any zoning decision against the mosque must be because of citizen opposition. It's the everyone-is-racist if anyone-is-racist theory advanced by academia and others.
The lawyers on the subpoena documents are listed as Onjil McEachin and Sameena Shina Majeed.
Onjil McEachin came to the Justice Department in the last couple of years from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where McEachin’s office was deeply involved in advancing disparate impact legal theories to prove racial discrimination.
Sameena Majeed was formerly a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia and won the Steere Prize in Women’s Studies at Yale for her work entitled “Feminist Voices: An Ethnographic Examination of Feminist Consciousness in Urban Pakistani Women.”
The case was brought by the Civil Rights Division's Housing and Civil Enforcement Section. The hiring practices of the Civil Rights Division under President Obama has been the feature of PJ Media’s Every Single One series and an inspector general Report of the Department of Justice. (The lawyers featured in the Every Single One Series from that section can be viewed here .) After obtaining resumes of lawyer hires after PJ Media was forced to file a lawsuit against the DOJ, the series revealed that under President Obama, every single one of the lawyers hired was a partisan or ideological leftist . This led the inspector general to recommend that the department end certain hiring criteria that have led to the perception that only lawyers of a certain leftist ideological perspective are hired.
Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez refused to implement the recommendations of the inspector general.
The Washington Post obtained and reported information in a story about the controversial case that the Culpeper sheriff had conducted seminars on jihadi networks in the United States -- a fact the Washington Post found to be relevant to the zoning dispute.
The county sheriff has previously come under fire for hosting a seminar on “Jihadi Networks in America” led by a former FBI agent who claims terrorists control most leading American Muslim groups.
Since President Trump’s inauguration, the notorious Civil Rights Division has been run by caretakers without a Senate-confirmed political appointee head. President Trump has appointed Eric Dreiband to head the Civil Rights Division.
Next week, senators have a chance to ask about whether it is a good use of resources to subpoena Christian pastors to ask them about their views on Islam when in a case where the primary parties have already settled .
AG Sessions should purge these people but many are hires with civil service protections.
The buck stops with Trump. He should have fired them all by now. There are plenty of republican attorneys out there in local government offices who could have been given jobs in the AG offices.
Pretty simple. It is a death cult founded by a pedophile, slave trader, sex slave trafficker, mass murderer, lair, thief and a guy who didn’t like dogs.
Barack Obama wasn’t honest with Americans when he claimed to be a Christian (who was raised as a mulsim, by 2 different daddies).
He didn’t see Jesus as his Savior.
Didn’t see Jesus as the only path to salvation (multi-faiths are fine).
Grew up in the household of his Unitarian grandmother.
Talked of the “Holy koran” but never the “Holy Bible”.
Was “brought to Jesus” by the bigoted hate monger (and ‘former muslim’) Jeremiah Wright.
If the government is going to dig into religious beliefs, those are the ones that need exposing.
Fine.
Since you can't fire them, let them keep their salary, and send them to count paperclips in a GSA warehouse in the Aleutian Islands.
Thought Police?
This will not end well.
NO inquisitions in our country
NO NO NO
My response. “When you force a m*slim to testify under oath how he feels about the passages in the koooran about killing humans.”
Yes, Trump is WAY WAY too slow getting rid of all the communist Obama embeds throughout FedGov.
Trump should offer J. Christian Adams the head of the Civil Rights Division. He would be perfect.
Why doesn’t the buck stop with Sessions? Is he merely a helpless, passive figurehead, or does he run the DOJ?
Agreed, they should all be transferred as far away as possible from what they consider civilization.
Who is funding the Mosque and who are the owners? Are the Imans Saudi’s? Or other Wahabi’s?
Obama’s first supposed father never spent any time with him. Obama was born in August and was in Washington state with his mom in Sept.
I believe Round Hill is a black Muslim site
The next sonic boom you hear will be Beauregard Sessions extricating his tiny head from his tiny ass.
Worst.
Republican.
AG.
Appointment.
Ever.
Sessions gave up before he started the job as AG. He is less than a figurehead. He does nothing and comments on nothing. That would be great if he was actually working beyond the public’s view. We know he is not . He hasn’t looked at the DNC computers. He hasn’t looked into the Clinton Foundation. He has no control over the FBI regarding releasing records. He is of no use. Major problem appears to be that Trump wants it to be this way. No urgency. Go along to get along.
You need to add a point that decisively proves Obola is a Mudslime:
In his infamous Cairo speech at the beginning of his first term, he stated that God “revealed” the Koran to the “Prophet” Mohamed. No one who isn’t a Mudslime could believe those two things because, once they are believed, the whole elephant has been swallowed.
The Justice Department subpoena also demands that the pastor bring any papers or documents that he has to his deposition with government lawyers that relate to or mention Islam and turn them over to the government.
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So hand them a Koran, in the original language.
Then a Bible.
Let them figure it out.
This is my first /s response.
Actually, I would think he does not have to comply, at all.
The country that God has inspired the design of, has abandoned Him.
That country now is not my hope.
God must be my hope. Interesting how He arranges all that...
Momar Gaddafi said that Barack was a muslim.
Barry liked that view in the Muddled East.
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