WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Tuesday, March 1, a coalition of interfaith and civil rights groups will hold a noon news conference in Nashville, Tenn., to urge lawmakers to drop an anti-Islam bill drafted by the head of an anti-Muslim hate group and introduced recently in that state’s legislature.
WHAT: Nashville Press Conference on Tenn. Anti-Islam Bill
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After a longstanding Muslim community was targeted with vandalism, Christian, Jews and Muslims gathered Friday and vowed to write over the hateful speech with words of peace.
The interfaith gathering took place under shared umbrellas midday Friday at the Abdul Majid Karim Hasan Islamic Center. The center is just over the New Haven-Hamden town line [...]
A proposed Tennessee law would make following the Islamic code known as Shariah law a felony, punishable by 15 years in jail.
State Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, and state Rep. Judd Matheny, R-Tullahoma, introduced the same bill in the Senate and House last week. It calls Shariah law a [...]
The Anti-Defamation League condemned Glenn Beck on Wednesday for comments he made about Reform Judaism.
Speaking on his Tuesday radio show, Beck brought up the recent letter that 400 rabbis from the Jewish Funds for Justice group took out in the Wall Street Journal against him. He claimed that the list was dominated by Reform [...]
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