Posted on 03/23/2011 3:42:04 AM PDT by Darkwolf377
Just weeks after House Republicans held a hearing looking at the dangers of radical Muslims in the U.S., Senate Democrats are countering with a hearing of their own, scheduled for after Congress returns from a 10-day vacation, to examine Muslims' civil rights.
Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, announced the subcommittee hearing Tuesday, saying there has been a spike in anti-Muslim bigotry in the last year that demands closer attention.
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The hearing will be the first ever before the Judiciary Committee's new subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and human rights, which Democrats created this year. Mr. Durbin is the chairman of the subcommittee.
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In 2009, the latest FBi statistics available, anti-Islamic hate crimes accounted for 9.3 percent of the 1,376 religiously motivated hate crimes recorded. That's far less than the 70.1 percent that were anti-Jewish.
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Where’s the hearings on the POTUS circumventing Congress and committing military power against Libya without their consent?
And what did the FBI statistics say about anti-Christian/infidel hate crime that was 9/11?
Yeah, thought so.
To hell with muzzy rights. How 'bout you stop lopping heads and we see how things progress from there, hmm?
That was actually included in the stats for that year. I recall numerous commentators talking about it by saying "9/11 aside, this shows..." and such, but it was definitely reported. And we did go to war over it.
And, we're still at war over it.
I think we need a muzzy rights czar.
I’m still waitin’ for the hearin’s on “Taxpayers and working man’s rights”......crickets...
Do you or anyone off hand know who sits on this committee? Would love to know the names-have a few comments to send to the republicans on the committee.
Funny, he just remembered the second part of that amendment phrase.
He/libs sure haven't applied that in the past.
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights
Majority Members: 6 Total Members: 11
Minority Members: 5
Members:
Durbin, Richard J. (IL), Chairman
Leahy, Patrick J. (VT)
Whitehouse, Sheldon (RI)
Franken, Al (MN)
Coons, Christopher A. (DE)
Blumenthal, Richard (CT)
Graham, Lindsey (SC), Ranking Member
Kyl, Jon (AZ)
Cornyn, John (TX)
Lee, Mike (UT)
Coburn, Tom (OK)
And, oh no.
So 2 Conservatives, and 2 sell outs, and light-loafers Lindsey (say with lisp)? Wonderful.
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