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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: Responsibility2nd

0bama and Holder would’ve done this regardless, HOWEVER, they would’ve had no real examples of anything that could be remotely considered “islamaphobia” w/o this nutjob preacher.

Look at it this way. Name one single positive thing that could come out of burning korans. This joker ought to go back to handling snakes or something.


101 posted on 09/07/2010 3:40:25 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (Refudiate 0bama '12)
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To: NormsRevenge

Where the hell are all these attacks on muzz and mosques?


102 posted on 09/07/2010 3:48:21 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: DonaldC
stem a wave of attacks against Muslims and mosques

im sure if any mooselimbs wouldve been beheaded by anybody but other mooselimbs, we'd have heard something about it...

they physically kill CHRISTians across the globe, but a demand that they assimilate in this country is grounds for 'hate' crimes...

103 posted on 09/07/2010 3:55:25 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: NormsRevenge

ISLAM is the NEW MARXISM and NAZISM.

But it is worse than the two former secular totalitarianist ideologies because it pretends to be a religion which can promise heaven to hese biggots who will do anything to defend it and because it is spread worldwide.
In addition Islamists are using the anti-racist and human-rights rethoric to promote their cause,silence their opponents while they try to appear as victims.

Burning Quran is a symbol meaning that we don’t want islam and its rules in our societies. It is nothing to burn a Quran beside the killing,the murder,the beheading,the stoning of innocent people, of women, of muslims who want to change religion....

ISLAM is also used by a bunch of liberal croocks to weaken and undermine western people’s and societies’ soul and identities and cultures. Liberals want people to become brainwashed,amnesic consumers who can be easily ruled by the fake “god” big government....


104 posted on 09/07/2010 3:59:44 PM PDT by Ulysse (s)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Political correctness is killing this nation.”

See my tagline.


105 posted on 09/07/2010 4:00:40 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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* 66


106 posted on 09/07/2010 4:04:01 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: rbg81

Remember, everyone, that ObaMao said in one of his books that he will side with the muzz if “the winds” drift against them. He has loudly proclaimed that his allegiance is to the muzz.


107 posted on 09/07/2010 4:04:46 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The last time I saw statistics there were far more so-called “hate crimes” against Jews than against Muslims. How about that, Eric?


108 posted on 09/07/2010 4:05:41 PM PDT by clintonh8r ("Let them eat lobster cake." Michelle Antoinette, vacation #6.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Hate to break it to Holder, but hate crimes on muslims are DOWN.

Hate crimes on my tribe? Hmmm, about half of all the hate crimes.


109 posted on 09/07/2010 4:07:42 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Ah. I get it. Muslims can threaten us, blow hard against the Christians, and demand that a Mosque be built at Ground Zero, but Americans can’t retaliate. Do I have this right?

Until the Muslims realize that living in America is not a carte blanche to destroy the place they live (dogs would never do that) they need to understand that Americans are proud of this country and WILL defend it against all comers, inside or out.


110 posted on 09/07/2010 4:19:13 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Honk if you like peace and quiet.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The “Interfaith Alliance” is a leftist organization that uses religious sophistry as a means to push a humanist progressive agenda...


111 posted on 09/07/2010 4:21:37 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: NormsRevenge

The guy who waves the bloodied shirt rules the west. The guy who wields a club rules the east.


112 posted on 09/07/2010 4:21:37 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: NormsRevenge

Once again, the left is playing identity politics showing favoritism to some at the expense of others.


113 posted on 09/07/2010 4:21:50 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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As recent threads have noted, this is a problem, worthy of a White House summit.

Inconvenient Truth: 10 Times More Hate Crimes Against Jews Than Muslims

114 posted on 09/07/2010 4:27:03 PM PDT by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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To: NormsRevenge

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


115 posted on 09/07/2010 4:36:05 PM PDT by NotSoModerate
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To: ZULU

I was just thinking, when we get a republican as speaker of the house in Nov, can we impeach both zero and zero junior, then have a republican in the white house?????


116 posted on 09/07/2010 4:36:08 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Lou Budvis

” Look at it this way. Name one single positive thing that could come out of burning korans.”

....... giving the filthy muslims a chance to show the doubters what the UK already knows firt hand


117 posted on 09/07/2010 4:38:33 PM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: Lou Budvis
Look at it this way. Name one single positive thing that could come out of burning korans. This joker ought to go back to handling snakes or something.

It doesn't matter, they have the Constitutional right to do it, and if the muzzies don't like it, tough noogies.

118 posted on 09/07/2010 4:40:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: NormsRevenge
What attacks?

The only people I see attacking anyone are Muslims.


119 posted on 09/07/2010 4:40:56 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: NormsRevenge

There have been two attacks on christian churches in Ft. Wayne, Ind. in the last few months, I wonder if Holder is personally involved in solving those crimes?


120 posted on 09/07/2010 4:47:32 PM PDT by muddler (Diligentia, Vis and Celeritas)
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