Dhimmitude! Someone please call CAIR so they may whine also!


PASADENA - Religious leaders from all sects and denominations stood shoulder-to-shoulder at All Saints Church in Pasadena on Thursday to denounce a spate of "hate" mail the parish received for hosting a popular Muslim event at the church.


Church officials claim they received more than two dozen emails from individuals condemning All Saints Episcopal Church for hosting the 12th Annual Muslim Public Affairs Council Convention on Dec. 15.


Church officials produced three of the "close to 30" emails they received.


At least one email accused the parish of "providing cover and legitimacy to an organization dedicated to overthrowing the Constitution, and substituting Sharia law."


Another email warned parishoners to not "be gullible suckers."


During the Thursday press conference, convention organizers and church staff said the conference will go on as planned and denounced the emails as hateful.


"What we hear too often unfortunately, is that what we are doing is a waste of time," MPAC President Salam Al Mayarati said. "What we also hear is people trying to drag us back to the rivalries of the middle East, the bloody rivalries of the middle east."


All Saints Rector Ed Bacon characterized the emails as a tragic reminder of the political and cultural realities of contemporary America.


"The fact is our life in America is transacted in a culture of fear, and transacted in a culture of hatred; and a politics of fear and a politics of hatred," Bacon said.
Bacon said he hoped to convert the negative attention from the emails into something positive for interfaith relations.


"We are very happy to have this occasion to put on a display of our relations and stand in solidarity," Bacon said.


In one email, a South Carolina man said "Islam is indistinguishable from Nazism," "Islam caused the Dark Ages" and that "every host country that has invited Islam into it has either been destroyed, or is in the process of being destroyed."


Church officials said the attacks came after Institute on Religion and Democracy published a criticism of the convention on its website.


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