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Posted on 11/29/2010 5:59:38 PM PST by mdittmar
SEATTLE, Nov. 28, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Washington State chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-WA) today called on the FBI and state law enforcement authorities to step up protection for the region's Muslim community after an intentionally-set fire damaged a mosque in Oregon.
Fire officials say the Sunday morning blaze damaged the Salman Al-Farisi Islamic Center in Corvallis, Ore., a house of worship once attended by a recently-arrested terror suspect. The FBI is investigating the incident.
SEE: Fire Damages Mosque Bomb Suspect Attended
CAIR: Seattle's Somali Community Fears Backlash from Bomb Plot
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/110937124.html
Portland's Somali Community Unites to Condemn Alleged Pioneer Courthouse Square Bomb Plot
"Just as American Muslims repudiate any act that would threaten our nation's safety and security, we ask our fellow citizens to reject any attacks on Muslims or their religious institutions," said CAIR-WA Executive Director Arsalan Bukhari.
Bukhari said he recently held a news conference in Seattle with two Muslim women who were allegedly attacked at a gas station by an assailant shouting racial and religious slurs.
CAIR-WA Video: Hate Crime Charges Filed in Attack on Muslim Women http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1nOvU9zEIU
Other recent anti-Muslim incidents include an attack on a New York Muslim mother and child, the arrest of New York teens who allegedly harassed a Muslim student because of his faith and the defacement of a South Carolina mosque.
Mosques in California, Tennessee, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Arizona, Louisiana, Kentucky, Texas, and Florida have faced vocal opposition or have been similarly targeted by hate incidents in recent months.
SEE: Lansing Man Who Burned Quran was Drunk, Angry
CAIR-NY Seeks Hate Crime Charges in Attack on Muslim Mother, Child
FBI Meets with Members of S.C. Mosque Defaced with Pork
Hate Packages Sent to U.S. Mosques
CAIR's national office recently announced the launch of a department devoted to addressing the alarming rise of Islamophobic sentiment in American society.
American Muslim individuals and institutions are being urged to review advice on security procedures contained in CAIR's "Muslim Community Safety Kit."
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
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CONTACT: CAIR-WA Executive Director Arsalan Bukhari, 206-367-4081, or 206-931-3655, E-Mail: abukhari@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, or 202-488-8787, E-Mail: ihooper@cair.com; CAIR Communications Coordinator Amina Rubin, 202-488-8787, 202-341-4171, E-Mail: arubin@cair.com
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Did I miss CAIR calling for protection of Christmas tree lightings?
“Oregon Mosque Arson Prompts Call to Protect Muslims”
I’m more worried about protecting innocent Citizens. Remember 911. Muslims didn’t worry about those they killed.
The answer is 3.
In other news hamas and hezbollah expressed their disgust at the persecution of filthy Muslims.
You know the next time Islamists kill a lot of children, women and men here, and they will, we won’t care about CAIR. There will be a lot of fed up Americans with a rope and sense of justice.....
it’s pretty obvious that the ‘fire’ was an effort to deflect attention away from the mosque.
I saw that episode. Strange how they never dealt with that issue until after the incident on camera, then came up with cones and people to direct traffic.
muslim rage/muslim victimhood...their eternal pathology seems to work every time in a great nation with an apparent suicide wish.
“Of the 1,575 victims of anti-religious hate crimes, 71.9 percent were victims because of an offender’s anti-Jewish bias.”
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2010/november/hate_112210/hate_112210
Totally agree. BURN BABY BURN.
Its leadership should be in jail.
The GOP should push that communist muslim son of a whore in the White House to prosecute them.
Per Sharia law, if she uses the credit card without my permission, can I smack my wife with a baseball bat?
Where is that ? I love that sign.
Per sharia, you don’t need a reason to smack your property.
Go back to where they were originally from. Then problem solved.
Standard
practice is for muslims to torch their mosques (very small fires ) to portray them selves as the victims. The FBI need s to be investigating the mosque involved.
Protect muslims? This is stupid.
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