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5 items: Badi Ali on racism,
Afghanistan,
Indonesia,
Moran D-Virginia,
Kaukab Siddique:
Eid
Khutba
on war on Islam
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COBLE's APOLOGY TOO LITTLE: Badi Ali on Racism
MUSLIM GROUP RENEWS CALL FOR COBLE RESIGNATION
GREENSBORO - Muslims for a Better North Carolina
Wednesday renewed their call
for the resignation of U.S. Rep. Howard Coble,
D-N.C.
Last week, on WKZL-FM radio, Coble said he
agreed with President Franklin
Roosevelts decision to intern thousands of
Japanese Americans during World
War II. Coble said Roosevelt interned the group
for their own protection and
because some wanted to do harm to the United
States, just as, he said, some
Arab Americans want to do harm to the country
today.
Coble released a statement Monday, saying he
regretted that some Asian
and Arab Americans found his choice of words
offensive, but Badi Ali,
president of Muslims for a Better North Carolina,
said Wednesday that the
statement was hardly an apology for Cobles racist
statements.
Yesterday it was African Americans, today its
Arab Americans, Ali said.
Who will it be next? Mexicans?
Ali said at least one member of the Muslim
community in Greensboro has
been rebuffed by Coble, chairman of the U.S.
House Crime, Terrorism and
Homeland Security subcommittee.
The woman, who did not want to be named, went
to Cobles office in
Greensboro, asking for assistance in bringing her
mother to the U.S.
from a Middle Eastern country to help her with the
upcoming birth of her child.
Cobles spokeswoman refused to help, Ali said.
She told her to go home, back to the Middle
East, to have her baby, Ali
said. This woman is an American citizen, and she
told her to leave this
country to have her baby. That is unacceptable.
American citizens are American citizens, no
matter what their ethnic
background or religious beliefs, Ali said. We
cannot sit back and let our
congressmen create racial barriers and mistrust
grow in this country.
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