CAIR: Ohio Groups to Ask School to Drop Anti-Islam Tea Party Speaker

[Purveyor]

CLEVELAND, March 27, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Monday, March 28, the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Ohio) will join with the NAACP and other civil rights and interfaith groups at a news conference outside the Board of Education in Mansfield, Ohio, to address the negative impact a speech by an anti-Muslim Tea Party speaker will have on district students. The groups will ask the board to rescind its approval to hold the event in a school facility.

WHAT: Groups to Ask School Board to Rescind Approval for Hate Event
WHEN: Monday, March 28, 11 a.m.
WHERE: Mansfield Board of Education Office, 856 West Cook Road, Mansfield, OH
CONTACT: CAIR-Cleveland Executive Director Julia Shearson, 216-830-2247 or 216-440-2247, E-Mail: [e-mail]


The anti-Islam speaker, Usama Dakdok, claims all Muslims are "demons" and that "there is no good Muslim." He is scheduled to speak Monday evening at Mansfield Senior High School at an event sponsored by the Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party Association.

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http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/27/3507317/cair-ohio-groups-to-ask-school.html

[davidinalameda]

1. but the group is using school property

your title makes it sound like the school is sponsoring this when it's not

I doubt it will have too much of an effect on students since this isn't a school related event

[madrchsod]

2. mansfield is a big town--find some where else to speak

[Arkana]

3. They're letting this kook speak at a SCHOOL?!