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Tag: Tom Tancredo

Apologize to Muslims and Americans

September 14, 2005
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Rep. Tom Tancredo has once again proven that fanatic, close-minded people can be of any religious background (“9/11 memorial under fire,” Sept. 14). His assertion that the Flight 93 memorial “honors the terrorists” because it is shaped like a crescent is comical. According to this logic, a person who hangs the cross pays tribute to the crusaders, the Ku Klux Klan, the people who bomb abortion clinics and all other Christian terrorists.

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Posted in Media Monitor Tagged Islamophobia, Tom Tancredo

Press Release: CAIR: CO Rep’s ‘Crescent’ Comments a Ploy to Gain Publicity

September 13, 2005
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today dismissed Rep. Tom Tancredo’s (R-CO) comments on the design of a memorial to those aboard a plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11 as a cynical political ploy designed to gain national attention. (See: http://tancredo.house.gov/)

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Posted in Press Center Tagged Islamophobia, Tom Tancredo

Chicago Tribune: Avoiding Extremism

August 18, 2005
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I would like to thank Leonard Pitts for his wonderful handling of comments such as those of Rep. Tom Tancredo that do nothing but incite fear and hate (“Inflammatory remarks feed the enemy,” Commentary, Aug. 2).

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Posted in In the Media Tagged Leonard Pitts, ramah kudaimi, response letter, Tom Tancredo

Avoiding Extremism

August 2, 2005
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I would like to thank Leonard Pitts for his wonderful handling of comments such as those of Rep. Tom Tancredo that do nothing but incite fear and hate (“Inflammatory remarks feed the enemy,” Aug. 2).

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Posted in Media Monitor Tagged Islamophobia, Leonard Pitts, Tom Tancredo

Urge Republicans To Repudiate Tancredo’s ‘Bomb Mecca’ Remark

July 21, 2005
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(WASHINGTON, DC, 7/21/2005) – CAIR today called on all people of conscience to contact Colorado and national and Republican Party leaders and urge them to repudiate Rep. Tom Tancredo’s (R-CO) remarks suggesting that America could bomb Mecca.

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Posted in Action Alerts Tagged MECCA, Tom Tancredo
 
 
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