Muslim civil rights group asks that repeated bias incidents this year be probed as hate crimes
WASHINGTON,
April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The
Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate a "terrorist threat" and desecrated religious texts that were used to target a
Missouri mosque as hate crimes.
[NOTE: A representative of the
Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) is meeting today with FBI and ATF agents at a
Detroit mosque that was recently damaged by a suspicious fire. CONTACT: CAIR-MI Executive Director
Dawud Walid, 248-842-1418, 248-559-2247, E-Mail:
dwalid@cair.com]
Officials with the Islamic Center of
Springfield say they received a threatening letter Sunday stating that Muslims "stain the earth" and vowing that "Islam will not survive." The letter, which police logged as a "terrorist threat," ended with a drawing of a ram's head with "Death to Islam!" printed below.
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