Waitaminute Luther :2wave: ......they were the JV Team first, then the cult group. Now he calls them an organization. But here is another reason why.....with BO thinking about those minorities when it comes to religion and if they are being picked on.
Farhana Khera, executive director of the civil rights group Muslim Advocates, one of 13 participants, said the session gave Obama a chance to focus on Muslim Americans the way he has done with other constituencies, such as African American and Jewish groups. “
I started off by saying the biggest concern I hear from Muslim parents is their fear that their children will be ashamed to be Muslim” because of discrimination, Khera said. “We are asking him to use his bully pulpit to have a White House summit on hate crimes against religious minorities, much like the summit on bullying reset the conversation around LGBT youth.”
Obama emphasized the need to respect minorities in his speech Thursday, saying it was part of the obligation Americans face as members of a diverse and open society, “And if, in fact, we defend the legal right of a person to insult another’s religion, we’re equally obligated to use our free speech to condemn such insults —
and stand shoulder to shoulder with religious communities, particularly religious minorities who are the targets of such attacks.”.....snip~
http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...ma-condemns-those-seek-hijack-religion-4.html