The Morrison County Record reports in CAIR-MN to cosponsor ‘Tolerance and the Fear of Islam’ interfaith dialogue in Little Falls:
On Tuesday, April 29, interfaith leaders and community members will gather in Little Falls, for a community dialogue on “Tolerance and the Fear of Islam,” from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Event sponsors include: Little Falls Partners for Peace, Brainerd Area Coalition for Peace, Building Blocks of Islam, and the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN).
The event will take place at St. Francis Hall, St. Francis Convent, 116 Eighth Ave. S.E., Little Falls.
“Many individuals in the community have never met a Muslim in person and that allows fear to grow,” said CAIR-MN Civil Rights Attorney Ellen Longfellow. “This event seeks to promote a positive discussion around tolerance, respect and community. Martin Luther King Jr. said it best: ‘We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.’”
Speakers include: Saly Abd Alla, CAIR-MN Civil Rights Director; Jaylani Hussein, CAIR-MN Outreach and Advocacy Director; Ian Norwood, Little Falls High School student and Father Virgil Petermeier, St. Cloud Muslim-Christian Dialogue.
The event will be moderated by Kevin LaNave, director of the Center for Learning Services and Social Change
The event was organized after community leaders and activists considered the negative impact a speech by Brigitte Gabriel from ACT! For America had in Little Falls.
The Central Minnesota Tea Party hasn't posted anything yet in response. According to its events page, it's sponsoring a John Birch Society video, Exposing the Enemies of Freedom, on the same night.
Bluestem examined an earlier showing of the video, part of JBS's "The Constitution is the Solution" video lecture series in our post, You, too, can fret about the Illuminati: the John Birch Society in Minnesota Tea Party groups.
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