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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spoke at an event that also included a man whose organization has defended terrorist acts. Salam Al-Marayati, president and co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, has faced criticism for his own controversial statements and those of his organization.Muslim reformer Zuhdi Jasser told the DCNF that “Islamists like Marayati are quick to condemn terrorism when it suits their political purposes, but when it comes to acknowledging the need to reform the ideas that fuel radical Islamist terrorism of Hamas or Hezbollah or the Muslim Brotherhood, they seem to remain silent and deny many...

The House recently passed a non-binding resolution that condemns hate and bigotry in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic statements, citing a broad range of victimized groups, including Jews and Muslims. It doesn’t include white Christians—a stark and significant omission. The resolution is not a bill that will be sent to the president to sign. No legal weight is attached to it. It is merely a motion that allows members of Congress to show they oppose hate, even as they refuse to call out and punish individual politicians for their particular violations. More than 20 Republicans refused to sign the...

March 21, 2016 In another bout of leftist lunacy, the French government has devised a series of public service advertisements aimed at stopping the “hate” in France against “Migrants” and “Muslims.” The videos, each of which is about a half-minute in length, recreates scenes of “violence” and “hate” against Muslims, which we know are clearly supposed to be committed by non-Muslim French natives :

Photo : AFP LONDON (AFP) - US pop star Madonna made a rare foray into politics, calling for her home country to withdraw its troops from Iraq during an interview with British radio."I just don't want American troops to be in Iraq, period," she said on BBC Radio."My feelings are 'can we just all get out?'," said the 46-year-old star, who lives mainly in London with British film director husband Guy Ritchie, who said she believes the US-led war will not help in the fight against terrorism.

<p>San Francisco civic leaders unveiled an anti-hate poster campaign Monday, calling for an atmosphere of racial tolerance on the eve of the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.</p> <p>The posters, which depict two men and two women of Southeast Asian or Middle Eastern descent, are punctuated with a rainbow of color and read, "We are not the enemy. We are your community."</p>