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, 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.
Obama and Holder both need to be jailed for their crimes against America and I hope I live to see the day.
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?
It figures. I was wondering who these apostates were.
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?
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.
What I wanted to know was WHO is attacking the Jews. Could it possibly be Jews being attacked by muslims?
0bama’s Stedman..
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