{"id":309978,"date":"2010-02-11T22:01:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/cair-blasts-mayor-r-rex-parris-and-senator-james-inhofe-over-racial-comments\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:01:39","slug":"cair-blasts-mayor-r-rex-parris-and-senator-james-inhofe-over-racial-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309978","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Blasts Mayor R. Rex Parris And Senator James Inhofe Over Racial Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Mosque_1961_19606623_0_0_7007962_300.jpg\" alt=\"CAIR blasts Mayor R. Rex Parris and Senator James Inhofe over racial comments\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) to meet with representatives of the state&#8217;s Muslim community in the wake of the comments he made in support of government profiling of Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>During last month&#8217;s meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee that reviewed the Fort Hood shootings, Inhofe reportedly stated that he believed in racial and ethnic profiling, claiming that &quot;all terrorists are Muslims or Middle Easterners between the ages 20 and 35.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>In response, the organization cited FBI statistics that suggest the vast majority of terrorist attacks on American soil have been committed by non-Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is disturbing to hear a member of the U.S. Senate suggest that entire religious and ethnic groups should automatically be considered terror suspects,&quot; said CAIR-OK executive director Razi Hashmi. <\/p>\n<p>He added that by portraying all Middle Easterners as suspects, the politician &quot;does a disservice to our nation and to its tradition of racial and religious diversity.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Los Angeles branch of the CAIR said it will complain to the Justice Department over comments made by Mayor R. Rex Parris of Lancaster, Calif., who reportedly said he was &quot;growing a Christian community.&quot;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19606623-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19606623\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called on Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) to meet with representatives of the state&#8217;s Muslim community in the wake of the comments he made in support of government profiling of Muslims. During last month&#8217;s meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee that reviewed the Fort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}