A controversial congressman is to attend a Ramadan interfaith dinner at a local mosque so he could actually meet some of the constituents he had offended.<\/p>\n
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A controversial congressman is to attend a Ramadan interfaith dinner at a local mosque so he could actually meet some of the constituents he had offended.<\/p>\n
The Alabama Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Monday asked Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) to apologize for previously claiming that Muslims are killers.<\/p>\n
CAIR, the nation\u2019s largest Muslim advocacy group, says that\u2019s simply not true.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerican Muslims are committed to upholding equal rights and protections for all as the law of the land as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution,\u201d CAIR-Alabama Executive Director Khaula Hadeed said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brooks made it clear in an interview with WAFF that he\u2019s just fine accusing an entire religion of 1.6 billion people of being violent homophobes.<\/p>\n
The controversial republican congressman didn\u2019t mention whether he would accept the dinner invite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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