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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Were there any Catholic bishops there? If so, who?
10 Time More Hate Crimes Against Jews than Moslems
But our pathetic president and 'Justice' Department goes along with the charades, so there's little chance they'll end any time soon.
Someone in my neighborhood is planning to burn a Koran on 9/11, with bacon in the fire. Afterwards there will be dancing in the ashes.
Wishful thinking. As in, they’re wishing there would be a real wave of violence so they can step ahead as saviors through dictatorship.
Not going to happen. Even the left is quite too much civilized here to get into that. Too much to lose.
Hey Eric,
How about you just get your fat ass down to Arizona and kick the Mexicans out. eh?
>why the hell is the GOP not going after this political disgusting corrupt biased justice dept?<
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GOP = Gutless Old Party
I would not be surprised one bit if Holder himself and a goon sqaud of 500 fedeal DOJ agents descended upon that little pastor and his church like they were the evil SB 1070 bastards in Arizona.
Religous freedoms (for Christians) are going away in this country.
they are happing quite often...
in the land of make believe.
I guess some people are so desperate to make themselves victims they just make stuff up and hope they are believed.
““...to stem a wave of attacks against Muslims and mosques.”
I wonder where this is happening?”
It isn’t. Liberal Democrats need a straw man to attack so they can pass their dirty deed legislation.
What’s needed is for the Muslims to stop their attacks.
This is prima facie evidence that Obama is a Muslim. He sure is getting attacked a lot lately by his press. Who else would the DOJ be interested in protecting?
“””to stem a wave of attacks against Muslims and mosques...”””
You have got to be kidding me!!!!!
Someone in my neighborhood is planning to burn a Koran on 9/11, with bacon in the fire. Afterwards there will be dancing in the ashes.
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That seems excessive. Too harsh.
As in a perfectly good waste of bacon. I’d eat the bacon. And use the bacon grease to burn the Koran.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/12489/eric-holder-the-muslim-extremists-in-detroit/
Wave? Most attacks are against Jews, followed by attacks on Christians, with muslims trailing in third place...
“rising actions”
Is that like the June 6, 2006 wave of vandalism of churches on 6-6-6?
or is this more like the BS “FBI Investigation” into a phony rash of “racist” church fires in the 1990s? When Bill Clinton misremembered his own past and stirred up a witchhunt against a non-existent “arsonist menace”?
Bill did that, by the way, while the 9-11 hijackers were stateside training for their mission.
>>Were there any Catholic bishops there? If so, who?<<
Yes there was but I neglected to take down names thinking I would find them on line but have not so far.
hate crime laws marginalize everyone else.
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