{"id":20460,"date":"2010-09-14T11:59:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20460"},"modified":"2010-09-14T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:59:20","slug":"hartfords-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20460","title":{"rendered":"Hartford’s dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I wrote about the Hartford, Connecticut city council<\/a> which extended an invitation to a local imam to give the opening prayer for their meeting. Apparently, the city council was frightened off the offer because of “hateful email” and recinded their offer to Imam Kashif, who, in turn, gave his prayer outside of City Hall anyway.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t want anyone to think we\u2019re bowing down (to the emails). One guy responded, “We won.” And it was the hardest email I had to read,” Councilman Luis Cotto said, choking back tears.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, boo-fricken-hoo. So the council had a moment of silence instead of the prayer and that didn’t please anyone either. <\/p>\n

…some who attended Monday\u2019s prayer vigil said the silence is letting the haters have the last word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know the city council could have avoided this whole thing if they’d just done their job without trying to make a cultural point about something that really has nothing to do with governing Hartford. Then they wouldn’t have had to bawl in public and have an impotent “moment of silence”.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Old Trooper for the link to the update\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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