Times Square Rally Opposing Muslim 'Radicalization' Hearings (VIDEO)

On Sunday March 6, opponents of upcoming Congressional hearings on the "radicalization" of Muslim Americans gathered in Times Square for a rally called "Faith Under Fire, Today I Am a Muslim Too."

The rally featured appearances by Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, Russell Simmons, Rabbi Marc Schneier, Rev. Dr. Katharine R. Henderson and other leaders in interfaith relations. A competing rally was also organized by supporters of Rep. Peter King and the Muslim "radicalization" hearings.

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This video appears courtesy of Odyssey Networks.

Comments

[Balzac]

12:51 AM on 03/28/2011

Of course nobody told me about the rally. I would have been there to meet Meet Russell Simmons and to check out all the Muslim girls. But no... Not so much as a tweet about this reached me.

[cayuse]

07:08 AM on 03/10/2011

Who is not RADICALIZED with Unprovoked War, Occupation, Drone Attacks at will, Shock N Awe, Tax Cut for the Rich, No Jobs, Lower Wages, Highest Profit with low sales, 60% of Main Street Net Profit going to Stock Traders. Profit Bailouts for Worker Debt

Warships on the move while the Secretary of Defenses says "someone need their FREAK EN head examined.

[Ioan Lightoller]

09:33 PM on 03/11/2011

Fanned and faved! We have done all this stuff to Muslim counties in the Middle East and then cannot understand why some Muslims are radicalised. Just disgusting.

[cayuse]

08:42 AM on 03/12/2011

Thanks, It is helps to know others see too.

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[Puncastle]

04:18 AM on 03/15/2011

How the hell did this get past the moderators?

[thinkingwomanmillstone]

07:56 PM on 03/09/2011

When will the hearings into the evangelical christian radicalization of the armed forces start?

[cayuse]

07:09 AM on 03/10/2011

What about the MOTTO of the bayonet field

[Ioan Lightoller]

09:34 PM on 03/11/2011

Oh I WISH I could fan you again. That will never happen because the Christianists would start screaming "persecution!".

[jacksparrow34]

06:39 PM on 03/09/2011

So happy that so many came out in support of them, we are a great nation with great people. We do have our own Radicals who are now more vocal because they have elected officials on their side, who are openly spreading hate, every day.

[cayuse]

07:10 AM on 03/10/2011

Then the Karma is yours, thanks I feel better

[clancyben]

03:52 PM on 03/09/2011

I come from a Christian background and having that past I have many loose connections with Christians today (family, friends, etc). It never ceases to amaze me how afraid and hostile Christians have become toward muslims. The email spam and chains that I recieve on a daily basis are so (for lack of a better word) repulsive. Hate and Fear do nothing but breed more hate and fear. I have had the chance to respond to many of the authors of these chains only to get an extremely close minded and unintelligent response. I have come to the conclusion that people just listen to the loadest shouting... unfortunately its usually uneducated fools that do the most yelling.

What most Christians dont realize is that their religion is equally feared with a horribly violent history.

*Disclaimer* I am agnostic...

[17andlife]

05:49 PM on 03/09/2011

i get the emails things from my family. i delete them without even reading them. almost all of of my family hate anything to do with Islam, yet they know absolutely nothing about it, save what they hear on the television.
there is reason to be fearful, but of the terrorists, not our fellow americans.

[cayuse]

07:13 AM on 03/10/2011

I assume you mean the Christian Church that created the Atomic Bomb and dropped it twice, the Drones, Nerve Gas, Shock N Awe, Occupation, unprovoked war, WMD, Torture

Are these churches rep or dem

[jacksparrow34]

09:43 PM on 03/10/2011

Sometimes I really do think that who have killed more people? 2 world wars, then un just wars over middle east, vietnam, korea, afghanistan,... don't know what to feel about them.. sad or ashamed.

[ezekieljw]

03:48 PM on 03/09/2011

It is amazing that a single Religious practice (Islam) can garner so much willful ignorance and hatred. Understand the complexities of any issue you have a definitive opinion.

[cayuse]

07:15 AM on 03/10/2011

What do you call a people that think the should tell other people how to live. When the have 25% unemployment, the Highest Profit ever with no sales, unprovoked war, occupation,

Was not Hitler attacked for unprovoked war or was it because he had the Highest Middle Class the world had ever seen

[alkh3myst]

08:01 AM on 03/13/2011

Muslims sit on top of a huge percentage of the world's fossil fuel and mineral resources. Demonizing them is a tactic to make it acceptable to invade Muslim countries, to "neutralize the threat". Islamophobes are nothing more than stooges for Chevron Oil and BHP Billiton.

[bsultan]

02:55 PM on 03/09/2011

Right-wing politicians have successfully made their supporters fearful of Muslims. So long as there's something to be feared, the public can be distracted from the real problems.
Why aren't there any congressional hearings for the executives at big banks that led us so close to a depression? Why aren't there any congressional hearings on the politicians who supported invading Iraq on false intelligence? Surely invading a country unprovoked would make America less safe than these allegedly "uncooperative" American Muslim leaders could.

[cayuse]

07:17 AM on 03/10/2011

Well a few Muslims brought a lot of that on themselves fighting for freedom and prosperity from Western Involvement in their countries. Well they did not win that battle. But they have yet to lose any military battle yet, right?

[spacekadet1]

02:24 PM on 03/09/2011

McCarthyisn repackaged for the 21st century.

[cayuse]

07:18 AM on 03/10/2011

Let me have an Amen. Where is Reverend Write when you need him.

[HCLiberal]

01:59 PM on 03/09/2011

"Faith Under Fire, Today I Am a Muslim Too."
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I like that, even though I am an atheist.

[ethiopia1a]

02:15 PM on 03/09/2011

I AM PROUD MUSLIM

[HCLiberal]

02:27 PM on 03/09/2011

Fine.
I respect your right to be one.

[bradenton]

01:01 PM on 03/09/2011

If you don't like being a Muslim or anything else in America then go somewhere else.

[Nick Mages]

01:08 PM on 03/09/2011

So you're saying "if you don't like being harassed for your faith" don't come to america? Sounds american to me!

[cayuse]

07:35 AM on 03/10/2011

Many year ago America need workers for a boom economy. Today we do not have a booming economy. We have enough unemployed people. Many more educated that are given credit. It was that Freedom Fry Country that talked about America taking all the undesirables they and the world did not need or want.

No about Individual Rights, Freedom of Choice, Equality and Fairness. That's OUR Law

[cayuse]

07:36 AM on 03/10/2011

Oops!

NOW, about Individual Rights, Freedom of Choice, Equality and Fairness. That's OUR Law

[oldwookie]

01:12 PM on 03/09/2011

Is it really that great a violation of Godwin's Law to point out a parallel to Naziism when it actually *fits*? Because, well...