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DESCRIPTION:Dear Friends,\n\nHere's one reason why this upcoming forum is so important: 
 Within ten minutes of posting this event to Facebook, hate speech comments 
 started showing up. They were pretty shocking, as you can imagine. It drove 
 home to me how real the hate and fear mongering is in this country today. 
 \n\nAttending this forum will be an act of solidarity with our friends and 
 neighbors. Even more important, we'll learn about the realities of being on 
 the receiving end of such threats and what all of us can do to stop it. I 
 hope to see you there.\n\nPaul George, PPJC 
 Director\n\n-------------------------------\n\nPresidential campaign 
 rhetoric often gets overheated, blown out of proportion. But rarely has it 
 descended to the base levels of Campaign 2016. Blatant racism, xenophobia 
 and fear-mongering - hate speech - has become an alarming norm of the 
 campaign this year.\n\nWords matter, of course, and they have consequences. 
 Frightening consequences if you are a member of one of the targeted 
 communities. And no community has suffered the backlash from this hate 
 speech more than the Muslim community.\n\nThe consequences of inciting 
 speech takes many forms: physical assaults, bullying of school children, 
 law enforcement abuses, employment discrimination, denial of public 
 accommodations ... it is a long and ever-growing list.\n\nThis month's 
 forum will take a look at the very real fears of the Muslim community, both 
 locally and nationally, and explore how best to respond, as allies across 
 all communities, to the fear-mongering and hate speech.\n\nWe are pleased 
 to be joined by two top activists and obervers of these issues: Zahra 
 Billoo, Esq., Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic 
 Relations, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and Mike German, a Fellow at the 
 Brennan Center for Justice and a former FBI special agent who specialized 
 in domestic terrorism.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/12/29/18781297.php
SUMMARY:Forum: Muslim Communities Confront Fear Mongering, Hate Speech, Suspicion
LOCATION:Midpen Media Center\n900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/12/29/18781297.php
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