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US officials to meet religious leaders on anti-Islam attacks (including Attorney General Holder)
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 9/7/10 | AFP

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antiislam; attacks; cultureofcorruption; dncbrownshirts; dnctalkingpoints; ericholder; holder; injusticedepartment; interfaithalliance; liberationtheology; marxists; mosqueandstate; obamascandals; progressives; proislamist; religiousleaders; socialjustice
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To: DBeers

1994 : () A leading interfaith group has released guidelines for political candidates, advising them not to cooperate with controversial voter guides or engage in religious mudslinging. The Interfaith Alliance, founded in 1994 to counter the growing influence of the religious right, said candidates “have the right and responsibility” to talk about their personal faith but should not exploit it in a search for votes. . .The book was drafted with input from a bipartisan group of politicians and religious leaders, including former Rep. Robert Drinan, D-Mass., a Roman Catholic priest; 1980 independent presidential candidate John Anderson; the Rev. Jim Forbes, pastor of New York’s Riverside Church; and Rep. Amo Houghton, R-N.Y. ————Candidates advised to avoid religious mudslinging http://www.bjcpa.org/Pages/News/2002news/09.25candidates.html


181 posted on 09/08/2010 12:52:03 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: SunkenCiv; All
"...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.

Well, maybe if they were members of a bona fide "religion" as opposed to a political/legal/militaristic ideology and system of conquest, they wouldn't have such concerns. All anyone in this country has to do is open their eyes and ears and see the results of allowing this so-called "religion" to spread in Western Civilization over the centuries. For an update to perspective, one only needs to see the recent and rapidly intensifying destruction of societies and civilization in Europe as a direct result of allowing this EVIL to take root (and to offer it PC (suicidal) protections as a sign of their societal "enlightenment.")

Anyone that wants to understand what has happened in Europe and is now happening here in this country should take the time to read: Lee Harris, The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the Enlightenment.

182 posted on 09/08/2010 4:58:22 AM PDT by zzeeman (Existence exists.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Obama and Holder both need to be jailed for their crimes against America and I hope I live to see the day.


183 posted on 09/08/2010 6:09:21 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Responsibility2nd
I'm starting to agree with the Koran burners. I may just join them. This "protect the poor, victimized Muslims" crap is going too far. They attacked us, remember??? You'd think the way this administration is acting - it was the other way around!

And then there's Oboma- who can't even show his face at the 9/11 attack site. Why? Doesn't he want his Muslim brothers to see him siding with the infidels?

184 posted on 09/08/2010 6:46:00 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: piasa
The Interfaith Alliance, founded in 1994 to counter the growing influence of the religious right,....

It figures. I was wondering who these apostates were.

185 posted on 09/08/2010 6:53:55 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: rbg81

I have seen those numbers recently which indicate that Jews are still number one when it comes to attacks.

What I wanted to know was WHO is attacking the Jews. Could it possibly be Jews being attacked by muslims?


186 posted on 09/08/2010 9:23:03 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: NotSoModerate
Yeah! Let’s pull all of the FBI agents away from tracking terrorists and put them in the deep south chasing white guys with southern drawls. That’s really going to make us safer. /s

It's the same approach Bill Clinton used in the 1990s when he sent the FBI on a witchhunt that came up empty handed, meanwhile the 9-11 hijackers were identified and training here.

187 posted on 09/08/2010 11:12:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I want IMPROVEMENT, not just CHANGE.)
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To: JudyinCanada

What I wanted to know was WHO is attacking the Jews. Could it possibly be Jews being attacked by muslims?


If true, that information will never see the light of day.


188 posted on 09/08/2010 11:59:26 AM PDT by rbg81 (When you see Obama, shout: "DO YOUR JOB!!")
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To: NormsRevenge

0bama’s Stedman..


189 posted on 09/09/2010 1:46:03 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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