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US civil rights groups decry 'anti-Muslim' bill in Idaho
[Al Jazeera] A spate of bills in state legislatures across the United States have been decried by civil rights groups as Islamophobic.  Most recently, the Council on American-Islamic RelationsCAIR ...designated a terrorist group by the UAE... ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ... (CAIR), a Washington, DC-based Moslem civil rights group, has called on Idaho's Senate to vote against a bill recently passed by the state's House of Representatives that seeks to ban the implementation of "foreign law" in the state. According to CAIR, the bill, known as HB-419, targets Moslems and fits into a long pattern of "unconstitutional" bills that demonise Moslems by barring Sharia, or Islamic law. HB-419 was passed by Idaho's House of Representatives at a time when similar bills are being considered in several US states, including Montana, Oregon and Wisconsin. In an open letter to Idaho State Senator Jeff C Siddoway, Chairman of the Senate State Affairs Committee, CAIR's Government Affairs Director, Robert McCaw, described HB-419 as "contrary to our nation's values of not elevating or marginalising one faith or community". Posted by: Fred 2018-03-01 |
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