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On Faith: Imam's Silence allows Malice to Fester
An important dialog about propriety and religious freedom has morphed into one of the most disturbing and polarized shouting matches. But, disturbingly, the person who can most easily defuse a storm that threatens America's vaunted values of tolerance and pluralism, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is completely and continuously absent from the scene. Absence may make the heart grow fonder; but absence can also make malice grow stronger.
Read Full Story »HAF Concerned Over California Mosque Attack
Fremont, CA (August 25, 2010) - HAF expressed deep concern over attacks on a mosque this Tuesday in Madera, California. Vandals posting two signs, including one which read, "Wake up America, the enemy is here," marked the third incident of vandalism at the mosque that the Madera County Sheriff's Department has started investigating as hate crimes.
Read Full Story »HAF Praises Bangladesh for War-Crimes Tribunal
HAF commended the Awami League-led Bangladesh government for setting up an International Crimes Tribunal in an attempt to bring justice to the nearly three million people killed, the majority of them Hindu, during Bangladesh’s struggle for independence in 1971. The tribunal has indicted four members of the country's main Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, on suspicion of committing mass atrocities in one of the bloodiest, but almost ignored, twentieth century purges and genocides.
Read Full Story »HAF Condemns Malaysian Court's Religiously Discriminatory Verdict
Washington, D.C. (August 5, 2010) - HAF condemned Malaysia’s High Court decision denying 28 year old Siti Hasnah Banggarma the right to change her religion back to Hinduism. After a long court battle, Banggarma was left with little hope as Justice Mohammed Yacoob of Malaysia’s secular court referred the case contesting her conversion to the Shariah court for Muslims.
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