The Today I Am A Muslim Too Rally will take place on March 6th 2011. The event, organized by Imam Shamsi Ali, will protest Representative Peter King’s discriminatory Homeland Security hearings.
According to Imam Shamsi Ali, this Times Square rally will join Muslims and Non-Muslims alike,”shoulder to shoulder, making our collective voice heard. [...]
On February 1, 2011, a coalition of 51 organizations including Amnesty International USA, The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, the Interfaith Alliance , and varied smaller non-profits have composed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi requesting a stop to Rep. Peter King’s hearings on homegrown terrorism.
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A coalition of more than 50 Muslim, human rights, and faith organizations is urging House leaders to raise concerns about planned hearings this month on the “radicalization” of American Muslims.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, plans to focus his hearing on homegrown terrorism, including the Fort Hood shooting and [...]
The U.S. Justice Department has said it is monitoring 11 cases of potential land-use discrimination against Muslims, a sharp increase in cases under a federal law designed to protect religious minorities in zoning disputes.
In a report on discrimination against mosques, synagogues, churches and other religious sites, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said on [...]
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