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Sign On Against Bigotry in America

“To Bigotry No Sanction, to Persecution No Assistance”

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A Call to Citizens, Elected Officials, Journalists and Religious Communities to End the Current Wave of Fear and Bigotry Against Islam – Massachusetts Interfaith Leaders (September 7, 2010)

Massachusetts knows too well the painful and dangerous effects of religious bigotry, persecution, and intolerance.  American Indians, so-called witches, Quakers, Baptists, Jews, Roman Catholics, and others have borne the brunt of fears that bear no connection to reality.  Such a danger looms again.  We must not succumb.

Standing on the Statehouse grounds at the statue of Mary Dyer – Quaker, heroine of religious freedom, and martyr to religious intolerance – we call upon citizens, elected officials, journalists, and religious communities to pause, take stock, search our collective heart and soul, and here and now to resolve to end the surge of hatred and fear against Islam and Muslim Americans.

Addressing the matter of religious liberty, President George Washington in 1790 wrote to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, confirming that ours is “a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.” || Read more

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