{"id":461349,"date":"2010-03-22T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fcd6ac6970c"},"modified":"2010-03-23T11:28:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:28:45","slug":"sheriff-to-address-muslim-community-group-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/461349","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff to address Muslim community group in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days after he tangled with a Republican congressman about his ties to an Islamic nonprofit group, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca will be speaking to members of the Muslim American community.<\/p>\n<p>Baca will be at a town hall Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the <a href=\"http:\/\/omaribnalkhatab.org\/Culture\/index.htm\" >Omar ibn Al-Khattab Foundation<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/mapping-la\/neighborhoods\/neighborhood\/exposition-park\/?q=1025+exposition&amp;lat=34.018554&amp;lng=-118.292478\" >1025 Exposition Boulevard <\/a>near USC.<\/p>\n<p>Baca will meet members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasd.org\/sites\/muslimoutreach\/about.html\" >Muslim American Homeland Security Congress<\/a>, which the department established in 2005 to build bridges with the community.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The sheriff will talk about how we have to stop generalizing about people because of their religion,&quot; said department spokesman Steve Whitmore.<\/p>\n<p>Baca <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/03\/baca-argues-with-republican-congressman.html\" >argued with Rep. Mark Souder<\/a> (R-Indiana) on Wednesday while testifying in Washington before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Souder criticized Baca for attending fundraisers for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, saying the group espoused radical speech.<\/p>\n<p>Baca fired back, telling the congressman that his remarks were &quot;inappropriate&quot; and &quot;un-American.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after he tangled with a Republican congressman about his ties to an Islamic nonprofit group, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca will be speaking to members of the Muslim American community. Baca will be at a town hall Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Omar ibn Al-Khattab Foundation at 1025 Exposition Boulevard near USC. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461349","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\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}