Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Schedules Hearings On Civil Rights of American Muslims

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, has scheduled a hearing on March 29 on civil rights of American Muslims. (Press release). Witnesses will include Muslim civil rights leader Farhana Khera; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick; Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez; and Bush administration Assistant Attorney General Alex Acosta. Durbin's office says: "The hearing is in response to the spike in anti-Muslim bigotry in the last year including Quran burnings, restrictions on mosque construction, hate crimes, hate speech, and other forms of discrimination."