Posted on 09/07/2010 1:54:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) US Attorney General Eric Holder was Tuesday to meet with religious leaders from across all faiths to discuss ways to stem a wave of attacks against Muslims and mosques.
The talks would examine measures the Department of Justice "can take against rising anti-Muslim hate and acts of violence and intimidation against American Muslims," the broad coalition said in a press release.
The 4:00 pm (2000 GMT) meeting comes as an evangelical church in Florida vowed to press ahead with plans to burn a Koran on Saturday, to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Anti-Muslim tensions also appear to have been rising after a Muslim group proposed building an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, the site where the World Trade Center once stood before it was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks.
The coalition called on Holder to make a strong statement underscoring the US government's commitment to religious freedom and condemning hate crimes.
"Religious leaders encourage the Department of Justice to be highly visible and unceasingly bold in protecting the guarantees of the constitution for minorities as well as for the majority," said Interfaith Alliance president Welton Gaddy in a statement.
"Having spoken to many families across the country over the last few weeks, I have heard many Muslim Americans say they have never felt this anxious or this insecure in America since directly after September 11," Ingrid Mattson, head of the Islamic Society of North America, told a press conference.
She was flanked by the other religious leaders who were to meet Holder later in the day in a coordinated show of support.
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Well, wasn’t this was EXACTLY the response from the Leftoids when the US Taxpayer (via the National Endowment for the Arts) paid ~$250K to an ‘artist’ who put a Cruxifix upside down in urine ....
Well, wasn’t it??
‘A pro-Muslim left-wing nutjob staged a fake attack on a taxi driver, and a drunk peed on a rug.’
Well, 2 incidents compared to 0 last year IS a 100% increase in attacks!
These dhimmi fools! Attacks on mooslims have mostly been other mooslims attacking...same with the attacks on mosques. Every non-mooslim in the world is threatened by these barbarians. mooslims have absolutely no clue about freedom. mooslims want every non-mooslim to nonexist. Is there anything in the universe that does not incite or irritate mooslims?????????
More Propaganda to attempt to paint Conservatives and anyone that doesn’t agree with the Obama Agenda as a radical, racist, Homophobe, Isalmaphobe.....
Korano inferno.
Turning the worlds biggest victimizers of others and the world’s worst behaved religious group into a bunch of victims, may be the liberals most gifted evil trick yet.
I don’t know how they managed it, but it appears they did.
Yes, it has been growing daily. It has been relentless and this particular situation is a very, very bad sign of things to come. Very, very bad.
Name one single positive thing that could come out of burning korans
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It saves burning a candle on 9/11. We will need the candles when BO gets Cap and Trade through.
I’ll be amazed if they actually go through with it (burning a quran).
The authorities, be they law enforcement, IRS, or some other entity, will proctoscope the church members. intimidate them, threaten them; and they’ll announce they’ve decided not to go through with it. So as to spare feelings and all that.
I don’t get it. I haven’t read a thing about a wave of attacks upon Muslim’s, and their Mosques anywhere in this country.
I wouldn’t put it past the Leftist’s in D.C. to try to instigate something prior to the upcoming elections they could blame on the Republicans, the Conservatives, the Right.
More than likely that is what this is all about. Trying to establish something that isn’t happening as a truth, or a strawman situation if you will so they can be the hero’s, and conquer said villain’s.
save, read
Any bets they’ll be desperately trying to tie this “wave of attacks against Muslims” to the Tea Party...
Less pedophilia commands from a pervert in circulation.
Anyone in America has a right to publicly burn any book they own.
Its not an attack on anyone.
You sound afraid someone might die because a Koran is burned?
....did you feel someone might die everytime they have burned our flag...and that on our very own streets? I doubt that you did...Americans don't kill people for burning their flag.
And so since we have in our country Muslims whose ideology teaches them we are to be killed....whose Koran encites them and commands theme to do just that...who clapped on the streets and rejoiced when over three thousand people dies brutal deaths on 9/11.....and you are afraid burning Korans could get someone killed.
Muslims who adhere to the Koran don't need a reason to hat or kill, it is in their religious dogma to do that and they practice it, and or support those who do this against Americans.. It is taught to them from toddler to adult...it is not a religion it is a complete lifestyle centered around a death cult.
Now tell me again why you are afraid...because they have already accomplished their objective by making you so...
“I wonder where this is happening?”
Inside their friggin’ Communist heads, that’s where. This garbage makes me SICK!!!
US Attorney General Eric Holder was Tuesday to meet with religious leaders from across all faiths to discuss ways to stem a wave of attacks against Muslims and mosques... examine measures the Department of Justice "can take against rising anti-Muslim hate and acts of violence and intimidation against American Muslims," the broad coalition said in a press release... comes as an evangelical church in Florida vowed to press ahead with plans to burn a Koran on Saturday, to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Anti-Muslim tensions also appear to have been rising after a Muslim group proposed building an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, the site where the World Trade Center once stood before it was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks... said Interfaith Alliance president Welton Gaddy in a statement. "Having spoken to many families across the country over the last few weeks, I have heard many Muslim Americans say they have never felt this anxious or this insecure in America since directly after September 11," Ingrid Mattson, head of the Islamic Society of North America, told a press conference.
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