{"id":2519,"date":"2010-12-20T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2010-12-20T15:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T15:30:55","slug":"the_justice_department_that_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"The Justice Department That Forgot America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 15th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article\/556935\/201012151857\/Holders-Dept-Of-Social-Justice.aspx\">Investors.com<\/a>&nbsp;posted an editorial&nbsp;about some of the decisions of the Eric Holder Justice Department.&nbsp; There are definitely some things that need to be looked at.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has sued an Illinois school department for rejecting a Muslim teacher&#8217;s request to take a three-week leave of absence to travel to Mecca. <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The suit claims that the Berkeley School District discriminated against middle-school instructor Safoorah Khan, whose religion &#8220;required&#8221; her to perform the hajj, and is seeking damages for this so-called victim.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Doesn&#8217;t the school district have the right to deny a teacher a three-week leave of absence?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The article further reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Attorney General Eric Holder is fulfilling a promise to pander to the special interests of Muslims. In June 2009, he pledged &#8220;a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim community&#8221; that includes &#8220;robust enforcement&#8221; of &#8220;religious freedoms.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8221;We are committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans&#8221; in the workplace, housing market and schools, he said, adding that he was making it &#8220;a top priority.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Earlier this month, Holder spoke in San Francisco at the annual dinner of an anti-FBI group called the Muslim Advocates, whom he described as &#8220;partners in our work to promote tolerance.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I am not in favor of discrimination against anyone, but there is a difference between discrimination and special privileges.&nbsp; &#8216;Tolerance&#8217; should not be an excuse for enforcing laws differently for different people.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The editorial lists the groups that Attorney General Holder has spoken to over the past two years.&nbsp; This is not an Attorney General who represents the majority of Americans or who represents all Americans equally.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t expect him to be replaced as long as President Obama is in the White House, but I will be voting for a Republican President (regardless of who it is) in order to end Mr. Holder&#8217;s term as Attorney General.&nbsp; He has created a level of partisanship in the Justice Department that simply does not belong there.&nbsp; The handling of the Black Panters Voting Intimidation Case and the suit against the Arizona immigration law were simply inexcusable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 15th Investors.com&nbsp;posted an editorial&nbsp;about some of the decisions of the Eric Holder Justice Department.&nbsp; There are definitely some things that need to be looked at. The Justice Department has sued an Illinois school department for rejecting a Muslim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}