Tennessee imams curse Christians and Jews 
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Tennessee has been a hotbed of anti-Muslim activism for years, especially 
after plans were laid to build an Islamic center in Murfreesboro. There 
have been bomb threats and numerous conferences centered on the unfounded 
but widely hyped fear that Shariah law will somehow be imposed on 
Americans. The chapter of ACT! for America, an anti-Muslim extremist group, 
based in Nashville is the most active in the country.

So perhaps it was to be expected that a community forum intended to foster 
dialogue and a greater understanding of Muslims in America degenerated into 
a hate-filled free-for-all on Tuesday night.

The event in Manchester was organized by the American Muslim Advisory 
Council <http://www.amactn.com/> after a Coffee County, Tenn., commissioner 
posted a cartoon to his Facebook page last month showing a man aiming a 
shotgun and the words, “How to wink at a Muslim.”

“This night was supposed to be about understanding the Muslim-American 
community,” Sabina Mohyuddin, a spokeswoman for the council, told 
Hatewatch. “[But] during the whole program, from the beginning to the end, 
protestors were heckling, interrupting, shouting out.”

The forum drew 600 people, far exceeding expectations of 100. Audience 
members shouted down speakers and accused others of violating their freedom 
of speech.

Meanwhile, outside the convention center, Robert 
Spencer<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/summer/the-anti-muslim-inner-circle>
 of 
Jihad Watch and Pamela 
Geller<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/pamela-geller>
 of 
Stop the Islamization of America gave speeches accusing the Obama 
administration of trying to “shut down speech deemed ‘inflammatory’ against 
Muslims.”

“American’s aren’t going to sit quietly while our freedom of speech is 
taken away, and are never, ever, going to submit and stop telling the truth 
about the jihad that threatens us all,” Geller said after the event. “We 
are an army.”

The irony was that speeches from U.S. Attorney Bill Killian and Kenneth 
Moore, FBI special agent in charge of the Eastern Tennessee District, were 
focused on the very freedoms ensured by the First and 14th Amendments. “Our 
presence here tonight has generated some controversy,” Moore told the 
audience. <http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130604/NEWS/306040100>“People 
think we want to step on and stifle their First Amendment rights. Nothing 
could be further from the truth.”

At one point, the anger inside the convention center grew so intense that 
the FBI decided to end the forum early because of concerns that the crowd 
would grow uncontrollable, Mohyuddin said.

Anti-Muslim sentiment has grown for many years in Tennessee, prompted in 
part by the work of activist groups like ACT! for 
America<http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/fall/acting-out>
 and 
opposition to the planned Islamic Center in Murfreesboro. Hardline 
ideologues associated with the anti-Muslim movement have long believed that 
the mosque would serve as a base of operations for the Muslim Brotherhood.

But until now, the dialogue has never reached such rancor, according to 
local resident Elaine Smith. She told *The 
Tennessean*<http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130604/NEWS/306040100>that 
at many times during the evening, she was frightened of the other audience 
members.

“I came here because I wanted to learn something … but I couldn’t hear 
because the audience was so disrespectful,” Smith said. “I cried when I got 
here. It makes me really sad especially because these people say they’re 
Christians. The God I worship doesn’t teach hate.”



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