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'Extremist' Franklin Graham Must Not Pray At Inauguration, Trump's Team Told
 "Franklin Graham should be removed from Donald Trump's inauguration line up, the US' largest Muslim civil rights group said on Thursday. The outspoken conservative pastor and son of evangelist Billy Graham is due to pray at the ceremony next week in Washington.But the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Surprise! called on the president-elect to drop Franklin, who they described as a "notorious Islamophobe", in order to unite the country. "If President-elect Trump truly seeks to unite our nation as he promised in his acceptance speech, he will limit the list of those offering prayers at the inauguration to religious leaders who work to bring us together, not to create divisions between faiths," said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. "Rev Graham's ill-informed and extremist views are incompatible with the Constitution and with American values of religious liberty and inclusion." Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2017-01-14 |
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