Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., Monday called on the Department of Justice to immediately halt federal funding to the Nation of Islam, after the Washington Examiner first reported that the group has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the government to teach religious studies programs to prison inmates.
In a letter to the Justice Department obtained by the Washington Examiner, Buchanan called the report “disturbing” and said the government’s funding of the openly anti-Semitic black separatist group was “downright immoral.”
“As you may know, the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have designated the Nation of Islam as a hate group for its racist and anti-Semitic beliefs,” Buchanan wrote in the letter to acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.
“The federal government should not use taxpayer dollars to subsidize one of the most infamous hate groups in the United States,” Buchanan added. “That’s why I’m demanding your department immediately cease all contracts with the Nation of Islam and prohibit it from receiving any contracts in the future.”
The funding was designed to provide "Nation of Islam religious services," "Nation of Islam spiritual guide services," "Nation of Islam study services," and other related programming led by the organization’s leaders, according to Bureau of Prison records.
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"...the group has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the government to teach religious studies programs to prison inmates."
ReplyDeleteI thought there was an amendment to the constitution in something called the "Bill of Rights" that required the government to not get involved with promoting any religion.
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DeleteThey are the arm of "radical Islam". The Democrats will never allow this anarchist group to be prohibited from tax dollars. Just look at what they do to the Prisons.
ReplyDeleteGreat . that your Govt gives $$$$ . to the Enemy of America . > a bunch of Racist in the prisons !!!
ReplyDeleteNo surprise to me since I was a state prison officer and saw how the Govt caters to them .
Nation of Islam is the Worst One / then Sunni . / then Moorish Science . > . All Racist & hate Whites
All they did was Preach Hate and hide under the name of Religion , which they know Nothing About
and the prison told the officers > Hands off so they could not even monitor what they are doing ...Fact
It should be Dis-allowed and is Not what they want you to think it is . It is a Hate Group Period !!!!
Those Hate . mongers . should have Never been getting ANY . govt $$$$$ . just like Iran . !!!
ReplyDeleteI thought religion and government were not able to co-exist. Where's the ACLU and atheists?
ReplyDeleteYou would Hate your so called Govt even more if you knew what goes on !! Fact .
ReplyDeleteWhat Nice Re-habilitation is going on in the prisons !! LOL .
ReplyDeleteMaking More . HATE MONGERS !!! to be released to the streets !!!!
They will be worse coming Out than when they went In ......Fact . !!!
Even The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled the organization a hate group. (No kidding.)
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should not give public money to hate groups?
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ReplyDeleteThe SPLC is a hate group within itself.
What the hell is government doing promoting religion any religion?
ReplyDeleteShining example of why tax dollars should never mix with religious organizations of any kind, for any reason.
ReplyDeleteECI . Loves them . How much $$$ . do they funnel to them ??? I wonder
ReplyDeleteThe White groups there have Nothing coming ....No Protection No $$$$
And Cortez wants more of your hard earned money to be wasted on crap like this. Hope she falls flat on her face.
ReplyDeleteJust like there's no justice for high up Democrats then justice for the rest of us there's handout money for some but not for all.
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