Annie
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Notice there is no denial?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_go_co/congress_muslim_group_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_go_co/congress_muslim_group_1
House GOP protest Muslim seminar on Hill
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press WriterMon Mar 12, 3:12 PM ET
A House Republican leadership group said Monday that Democrats should retract an offer to let the nation's largest Islamic civil liberties organization use a Capitol conference room for a seminar.
The House Republican Conference referred to the Council on American-Islamic Relations as "terrorist apologists" and called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) to cancel the forum scheduled for Tuesday.
"Democrats arrange official meeting with pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah group in U.S. Capitol," headlined a Conference press release carrying a Washington Times article on the planned meeting.
"It's really disappointing," said CAIR national communications director Ibrahim Hooper, that whenever there's an attack from elective officials "we don't even ask any more which party it is. It should be a concern to ordinary Republicans that the party is being viewed as a reservoir of anti-Muslim hate."
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