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: First Amendment CenterHartford City Council says no to Muslim prayer
By By The Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. ? Hartford officials now say they won't include Muslim prayers before City Council meetings in September, after getting mostly negative feedback from the public on an earlier plan to invite Islamic invocations.
The reversal has prompted the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Connecticut to plan a prayer vigil tonight at City Hall in protest.
Some city councilors suggested including Islamic prayers in September along with convocations from representatives of other faiths. City councilors had planned to go ahead with the Muslim prayers despite receiving a flood of negative e-mails. The Hartford Courant reported they decided Sept. 10 to hold an interfaith moment of silence instead.
The Islamic relations council is requesting that an imam be allowed to say a Muslim prayer at the City Council's Sept. 27 meeting.
Mongi Dhaouadi, executive director of CAIR's Connecticut chapter, said calling off the imam's prayer creates an impression that Connecticut Muslims were involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Courant reported.
Full post as published by First Amendment Center on September 12, 2010 (boomark / email).
CT: Hartford City Council welcomes opening Muslim prayer
Jeannie DeAngelis writing at American Thinker: "Although Hartford City Council meetings 'don't regularly begin with any form of prayer,' the Common Council has decided to act on behalf of 'solidarity,' not with traditional Judeo-Christian faiths, which thus far have been anathema, but rather with Islam...
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WTNH: "A battle over religion is heating up in Hartford after the city council invites local Muslim leaders to say prayers before its city council meetings . . . 'I have my doubts,' Tom Fitzpatrick of Hartford said...
Hartford says no to Muslim prayer before meetings
Associated Press: "Officials in Connecticut's capital city say they won't include Muslim prayers before council meetings after getting mostly negative feedback from the public."
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AikenStandard.com: "The Aiken City Council meeting on Monday night began a little differently - instead of the usual prayer said by a council member, a moment of silence was held. Mayor Fred Cavanaugh explained to the audience that they were having a silent prayer that evening because of a 'possible litigation,' and after their regular meeting, they were going into an executive session to discuss it ...
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Sun Tribune: "The City Council recently dropped the long standing tradition of reciting the Christian Lord?s Prayer at the start of every council business session. Requests from a national organization to remove the prayer from the meeting agendas citing the illegality of the recital of such a prayer led to immediate removal from future meetings...
AR: ACLU wants end to NLR City Council prayers
Arkansas News: "The Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has asked the city to stop opening City Council meetings with prayer. ... The City Council typically meets twice a month and either Mayor Patrick Hays or a member of the council opens each session with prayer, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance...
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