Post by djfearross on Mar 7, 2011 14:56:17 GMT
No prizes for guessing which side the BBC picked.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12661941
Although the photo has the reuters name, their own website doesn't show it, which is strange...
www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/06/us-muslim-protest-idUSTRE7252VY20110306
Infact, it shows a picture of Christian paster. Why? Cause what the BBC didn't mention was that it was not a Muslim protest but The protest was organized by an interfaith coalition of community and political leaders and activists, including priests, rabbis and imams
King, a New York Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said on CNN Sunday that while "the overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding Americans ... there is an effort to radicalize efforts within the Muslim community."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12661941
US Muslims protest over hearings
Muslims braved the rain to protest in New York
Several hundred people have gathered in New York's Times Square to protest at this week's Congressional hearings on the US Muslim community.
The hearings will look at the extent of radicalisation within the community and the response on that issue of Muslim leaders.
Muslim organisations say they are being unfairly singled out.
The hearings are in response to such events as the Fort Hood shootings and the Times Square car bomb plot.
'Xenophobic behaviour'
The BBC's Tom Burridge in Washington says the protesters braved the rain to march on the streets of New York, many carrying banners reading "Today I am a Muslim too".
In the hearings, Peter King - a Republican Congressman and chair of the homeland security committee - has called several witnesses to testify about "the extent of radicalisation within the American Muslim community".
Mr King, who represents New York, claims some Muslim leaders are not doing enough to help the police and the FBI investigate terror plots which originate in the US.
Our correspondent says cases such as that of Pakistan-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad, who tried to blow up a car bomb in New York's Times Square last year, and Virginia-born US army Maj Nidal Hasan, who allegedly killed 13 people on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, have changed political language and thinking in the US.
Politicians, the police and people are talking about a relatively new, homegrown threat, he says.
The protesters in New York and others fear the hearings will only increase Islamaphobia in America.
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who led the campaign to build an Islamic centre near the destroyed World Trade Center site, addressed the Times Square crowd.
"Our real enemy is not Islam or Muslims," said Imam Rauf. "The enemy is extremism and radicalism and radical ideology."
Muslim Democratic Congressman Andre Carson said he wanted to tell "the Peter Kings of the world, we will not take your xenophobic behaviour".
Mr King's language on this subject has often proved inflammatory, our correspondent says, and many believe the witnesses he has called to speak at the hearings do not represent mainstream Muslims.
Muslims braved the rain to protest in New York
Several hundred people have gathered in New York's Times Square to protest at this week's Congressional hearings on the US Muslim community.
The hearings will look at the extent of radicalisation within the community and the response on that issue of Muslim leaders.
Muslim organisations say they are being unfairly singled out.
The hearings are in response to such events as the Fort Hood shootings and the Times Square car bomb plot.
'Xenophobic behaviour'
The BBC's Tom Burridge in Washington says the protesters braved the rain to march on the streets of New York, many carrying banners reading "Today I am a Muslim too".
In the hearings, Peter King - a Republican Congressman and chair of the homeland security committee - has called several witnesses to testify about "the extent of radicalisation within the American Muslim community".
Mr King, who represents New York, claims some Muslim leaders are not doing enough to help the police and the FBI investigate terror plots which originate in the US.
Our correspondent says cases such as that of Pakistan-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad, who tried to blow up a car bomb in New York's Times Square last year, and Virginia-born US army Maj Nidal Hasan, who allegedly killed 13 people on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, have changed political language and thinking in the US.
Politicians, the police and people are talking about a relatively new, homegrown threat, he says.
The protesters in New York and others fear the hearings will only increase Islamaphobia in America.
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who led the campaign to build an Islamic centre near the destroyed World Trade Center site, addressed the Times Square crowd.
"Our real enemy is not Islam or Muslims," said Imam Rauf. "The enemy is extremism and radicalism and radical ideology."
Muslim Democratic Congressman Andre Carson said he wanted to tell "the Peter Kings of the world, we will not take your xenophobic behaviour".
Mr King's language on this subject has often proved inflammatory, our correspondent says, and many believe the witnesses he has called to speak at the hearings do not represent mainstream Muslims.
Although the photo has the reuters name, their own website doesn't show it, which is strange...
www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/06/us-muslim-protest-idUSTRE7252VY20110306
Infact, it shows a picture of Christian paster. Why? Cause what the BBC didn't mention was that it was not a Muslim protest but The protest was organized by an interfaith coalition of community and political leaders and activists, including priests, rabbis and imams
King, a New York Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said on CNN Sunday that while "the overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding Americans ... there is an effort to radicalize efforts within the Muslim community."
