Rally outside Boston federal courts for imams

[Boston Critic]

About 100 people rallied outside the JFK federal building today in support of two senior Muslim clerics after an immigration judge agreed that they could be released on bond following their arrest last week on allegations of visa fraud.

The Pakistan-born imams are both accused of taking part in a scheme that provided religious-worker visas to immigrants who used them for secular jobs. Outside court today, a crowd that included other Muslim clerics and Christian and Jewish leaders, denounced the government for what they called a misdirected investigation targeting Islam.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2006/11/rally_outside_b.html

[Ian David]

1. The anti-gay activist and his pal broke the law. This has nothing to do with being Muslim.

They abused the special privileges we entrusted them with.

They used their religion as a fascade with which to violate the law-- like that hasn't happened before.

See related threads:

2 local imams arrested in alleged visa scheme (at least 1 is anti-gay activist) Click here to hide this thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=158x11231


Anti-Gay Muslim Imam arrested in Boston Click here to hide this thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x44596


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Literally brown and yellow, black and white, these good folks included Iman Talil Eid, from the Islamic Center of New England; Steve Chin, the Asian-American pastor of the largest Asian Church in New England; Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.; several black pastors, including the Rev. Gilbert Thompson, pastor of the largest African-American church in New England; and Roman Catholic Bishop John McNamara. The event also included a statement read by Brian Camenker, representing Grand Rabbi Y. A. Korff, head of the Hasidic Rabbinical Court for New England.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_199906/ai_n8876578