{"id":4702,"date":"2010-08-09T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2010-08-12T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T21:43:00","slug":"cair-asks-mn-gov-pawlenty-to-retract-comments-against-ground-zero-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4702","title":{"rendered":"CAIR asks MN Gov. Pawlenty to &#8220;retract&#8221; comments against Ground Zero Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> August 9, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an August 9 press release CAIR demanded that Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota retract his statement in opposition to the planned Ground Zero Mosque in New York City.\u00a0 &#8220;Our governor has engaged in collective guilt by saying that all Muslim activities and images anywhere near Ground Zero are degrading and disrespectful,&#8221; said CAIR-MN Civil Rights Director Taneeza Islam.\u00a0 &#8220;All Americans, including Muslims, should seek to help heal our society and avoid statements that create division or distrust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other signatories to the letter included Signatories to the letter include: Center for Somali Solutions; Council on American-Islamic Relations-Minnesota; Dar Al Hijrah; EngageMN; Islamic Circle of North America-MN Chapter; Islamic Resource Group; Jafari Islamic Center; Masjid An-Nur; Northwest Islamic Community Center; Sisters Need a Place; Somali Action Alliance; Somali American Community; Somali Community Link; and Tawfiq Islamic Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-muslims-ask-mn-gov-to-retract-statement-against-ny-islamic-center-100280264.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-muslims-ask-mn-gov-to-retract-statement-against-ny-islamic-center-100280264.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CAIR_Press_Release_08-09-10.pdf\">(PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On August 11 the Center for Security Policy <a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4707\">sent a letter<\/a> to Governor Tim Pawlenty alerting him to CAIR&#8217;s unregistered foreign agent status and asking that he request a Department of Justice investigation into CAIR&#8217;s violation of the FARA code.\u00a0 A copy of the letter was also sent to  Bureau Chief Heather Hunt of the     Foreign Agents Registration Unit at  the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: August 9, 2010 Description: In an August 9 press release CAIR demanded that Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota retract his statement in opposition to the planned Ground Zero Mosque in New York City.\u00a0 &#8220;Our governor has engaged in collective guilt by saying that all Muslim activities and images anywhere near Ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,123,223,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-elected-officials","category-io-statelocal-government","category-minnesota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}