{"id":8490,"date":"2011-03-30T18:34:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T22:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=8490"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:18:38","slug":"civil-rights-of-american-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2011\/03\/30\/civil-rights-of-american-muslims\/8490\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights of American Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/rss\/media\/video\/episode.1431.durbin.m4v -->Three weeks after a congressional hearing was held on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/by-topic\/hearing-on-%E2%80%9Cradicalization-in-the-american-muslim-community%E2%80%9D\/8350\/\">radicalization of American Muslims<\/a>, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) held a March 29 hearing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.senate.gov\/hearings\/hearing.cfm?id=5092\" target=\"_blank\">civil rights of American Muslims<\/a>.  Watch excerpts from remarks made by Sen. Durbin, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez, President and Executive Director of Muslim Advocates Farhana Khera, and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. <em>Edited by Emma Mankey Hidem.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwnet%2Freligionandethics%2Fepisodes%2Fby-topic%2Fcivil-rights-of-american-muslims%2F8490%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;width:450px;height:35px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As Muslim societies wrestle with how to treat religious minorities, let them look to our nation,&#8221; said Cardinal Theodore McCarrick this week in his congressional testimony on protecting the civil rights of American Muslims. 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