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Statement on Holder?s Meeting With Faith Leaders

By Main Justice staff

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AG
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
WWW.JUSTICE.GOV

STATEMENT ON THE ATTORNEY GENERAL?S MEETING WITH FAITH LEADERS

Issued by Matthew Miller, Director, Office of Public Affairs:

?The Attorney General met today with leaders of the interfaith community to discuss the Department?s commitment to preventing and prosecuting acts of bias-motivated violence. The Attorney General reiterated the Department?s strong commitment to prosecuting hate crimes, and noted several successes the Department has achieved in recent months. Over the past eighteen months, the Department has prosecuted three men who burned a mosque in Tennessee, two others who burned an African-American church in Massachusetts, and another who spray-painted threats on a synagogue in Alabama, among other cases.

?As the Attorney General has noted on previous occasions, violence against individuals or institutions based on religious bias is intolerable and the Department will bring anyone who commits such crimes to justice. Americans of every faith have the right to worship and practice their religion in peace, and the Department will continue to work with its state and local partners to ensure that this right is upheld.?

Full post as published by Main Justice on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).