CT Candidates Not Speaking (Yet?) on Hartford City Council’s Introduction of Muslim Prayer
This morning, the Hartford City Council invited local imams to come open September Council meetings with Islamic invocations.
In the announcement, the Hartford City Council called the plan “an act of solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters.” Via email, the Council alluded to the ongoing debate in Manhattan about the proposed Ground Zero mosque, and stated that it was the hope of the Council that Islamic invocations would counteract hostility toward Muslims and create a sense of inclusiveness.
That act set off such an immediate controversy that Council president Jo Winch had to schedule a press conference at 1:00 P.M.
Apparently the Council’s welcoming of Muslim prayer was too hot for the U.S. Senate candidates in Connecticut to handle. PJM contacted both Richard Blumenthal’s and Linda McMahon’s campaign headquarters — both located in Hartford — and received no response. (Both organizations fielded the call, but neither would provide a representative to interview.)
Winch told PJM in an exclusive interview that much of the response sent directly to the Council and appearing in the media has been negative. That included what she described as racist email sent to her office.
Even the positive feedback which has come to the Council, Winch continued, has expressed reservation about the timing of the plan. While supporters of the decision understood the Council’s intention to nurture solidarity in the diverse urban area of Hartford, noted Winch, they assessed that feelings were still raw about 9/11 — this Saturday being the ninth anniversary of that attack.
Michael Francoeur, a communications expert operating in eastern Connecticut and western Massachusetts, observed that the timing tended to undermine any worthwhile intentions. New Haven resident Elaine Taylor was looking for more detail about the motivation of the Council to introduce this practice, which she also questioned when the U.S. Supreme Court was asked to review prayer in schools. Old Greenwich resident Jack O’Dwyer — who owns Manhattan-based J.R. O’Dwyer Inc. — commented to PJM:
If there is going to be prayer, then let it not be discriminatory. Every religion should be invited.
This is actually now being considered — Winch told PJM that the Council may rotate representatives of spiritual groups.
Rotate?….well, when Wicca gets their turn, call me.
If the two candidates are too busy to give an opinion they should not be running for a public office.
Don’t forget Al Gore and the Church of Global Warming!
By “rotate” they mean muslims and atheists. Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Wiccans, Druids etc need not apply.
Have they all lost their minds? Yes, so open-minded that their brains fell out. Why don’t we all just convert to Islam now and spare ourselves a long drawn-out process.
Because we don’t want to end up in Hell, with allah and mohammed.
(Lower case by design).
I’m mostly ambivalent about this. but reading their feel-good mush reasons for it in the first place, I’m not uncertain this is the same kind of group of nitwits that would not hesitate to throw a fit over christmas decorations in a public area.
This is interested…because this is NOT what Councilwoman Winch told ME when I called her cellphone & got her directly on the line! What SHE said to me was that they have “always had a prayer from one religion or another” before their meetings. She mentioned Jewsish, Protestant, Evangelical and other prayer services that she claimed ALREADY took place…not were “going to be added!” So who is lying here…Jo Winch on her call with me…or this article?
Is it any wonder that Americans have no trust left for politicans in general or Democrats in particular? I, for one, will NOT ever again vote for an incumbent! I’d rather have people who are brand new & still have values.
CORRECTION TO MY POST:
This is interesting…because this is NOT what Councilwoman Winch told ME when I called her cell phone today & got her directly on the line! What SHE said to me was that they have “always had a prayer from one religion or another” before their meetings. She mentioned Jewsish, Protestant, Evangelical and other prayer services that she claimed ALREADY took place…not were “going to be rotated”. So who is lying here…Jo Winch on her call with me saying they’re already doing it with other religions…or the Jo Winch in this article who now says, “…the Council may rotate representatives of spiritual groups?”
Is it any wonder that Americans have no trust left for politicans in general or Democrats in particular? I, for one, will NOT ever again vote for an incumbent! I’d rather have people who are brand new & still have values and less of a sense of power and entitlement!
Gee….didn’t see that coming.
Yeah, who’d a thunk? Hope he wasn’t too disappointed and shocked and stuff.
The feed back was negative. Wow that must mean it is ok to go forward with this plan. It worked with obamacare.
I see no reason to declare that muslims are my brothers and sisters. And I certainly have intention of doing anything, either now or later, to demonstrate solidarity with them. I’m an American. What nonsense.
If the eager-to-please fools that make these kinds of decisions are serious, then where are the prayers of solidarity with Buddhists? Hindus? mushroom worshippers? Amish (for crying out loud–they probably laugh at the Amish).
The only reason they want prayers of solidarity from the muslims is because they do actually understand that the muslims consider them infidels and will cut their heads off as soon as the details are worked out.
Our national house is burned down by liars and cowards.
wow..true!!
Seems we are too afraid to “offend” muslims while they are in the process of killing our people.
These people will not be forced up me…they are not only NOT my brothers, they’re not even part of the same family tree.
Thank you Emma, post #9…..
Muslims/Islamists most certainly are not my brothers and sisters. Where do I sign up to say this more forcefully?
I have an urgent prayer request for the City Council Meetings and all Americans. Please pray for the many thousands of victims of Muslim terror attacks:
Islamic terrorists have carried out more than 16,009 deadly terror attacks since 9/11
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Thank you for your prayers.
what a load of crap. still waiting for a rotation in mecca.
what a bunch of subservient clowns.
all the articles i have read says that the council session is always started with a prayer…mostly by christian ministers but sometimes rabbis…so…do they start the meetings with prayer now or not? and if they do then why shouldn’t an imam lead the prayer sometimes? actucally there should be NO prayer what so ever in meetings of our public servants…seperation of church and state
Ugh there is nowhere in the Constitution of the United States a “separation of Church and State”
In the first amendment it says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Right, so let’s just keep religion out of government and politics. Why is it so important to have a prayer said based on your religion during a taxpayer funded public meeting? If people can’t go that long without their own prayer, perhaps we can just declare a prayer break – just like a bio break. Or is there some other motivation?
Yes. To beg God’s love and power and help in all that we do; for Him and for one another. Whatever does not proceed from faith is sin, so when we leave God out of it, we sin. Not a wise course of action.
There are too many prayer requests for help from Muslim persecution. I request the Hartford City Council pray for these Christians:
Christian Copts Living As Slaves to Muslims in Egyptian Village
By Mary Abdelmassih
9/8/2010 Egypt (AINA)
…….Bassem Shehata, 25, an IT graduate who attended the rally at the Patriarchate, said in an aired interview with Coptic activist Wagih Yacoub “We live in utter slavery. If Copts, some of whom are landowners, disobey orders of the big Muslim families, they are flogged.” Bassem said that last year his 14-year-old brother Shenouda was tied by members of a Muslim family to a pole, beaten and tortured in front of his father just because the father did not lend them his tractor. “Each time my father begged for mercy for his child, he was also beaten.” He said despite the family feeling “broken inside” his father refused to report the incident, fearing reprisals from the Muslim family.
http://www.persecution.org/2010/09/08/christian-copts-living-as-slaves-to-muslims-in-egyptian-village/
I also request that Hartford City Council pray that America does not become an Islamic nation.
I like the part where the imam ends the prayers with a hearty, “Death to America, Death to the Jews, death to Apostates there is but one god and he is allah and mohammed is his prophet” and the crowd nods and smiles while they clap and stand not understanding a word the imam said.
“Quaint!”
What ever happened to “…shall pass no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting free exercise thereof,….”?
Ask the Supreme Court.
Oh, by the way… they also start each session with a prayer.
You left out “Congress”; not some city council. Are you aware of the difference?
Why would any decent person not be eager to invoke God’s blessings upon our communal projects?
And why would any decent person espouse the satanic chaos of islam?
Emma: “The only reason they want prayers of solidarity from the muslims is because they do actually understand that the muslims consider them infidels and will cut their heads off as soon as the details are worked out.”
All the posts are great, but that one line is off the charts, funny.
Corrupticut is a bad joke chock-a-block fulla crooked politicians, chanting politically correct memebots, paycheck to paycheck middle class wannabes who think they’re part of an elite, a permanent underclass of drug addled thugs, baby making machines, a that’s just for starters. (It’s also the undisputed hairy armpit of New England too.) Now why is anybody suprised that a minority Hartford Councilwoman governing the largest Hispanic city north of Havana thinks Koranic hocus-pocus is A-OK, huh?
Stupid is as stupid does, perhaps?
Sorry Emma, this one rocks even more. Between our sense of patriotism and sense of humor, we cannot fail.
Rotate huh? When will it be the Zoroastrians turn? Better hurry up, there are hardly any more of them left in this world thanks to jihad.
WHAT? YOU WERE TOO AFRAID TO PUBLISH MINE?
When will the gullible fools like the city coucil in Connecticut open their eyes and at least look at the religion of peace. This is not a religion but a cult who’s one aim is to subjugate the world to a 7th century ego maniac. There is no word like love in the entire book. There is only punishments for not following Muhammad’s stupid laws. There are a lot of laws concerning the people of the book, everyone else but the Muslims, and how they are to be treated. It ain’t nice. Convert or die, enslave or kill, rape and beat, pay a tribute if you won’t convert until we kill you. It’s like a bad B horror movie. When will we realize as a nation that they have nothing but bad things to offer.
Islam, via the Koran and Sharia, robs Americans of our constitutional rights. We can’t have both, because islam contradicts the constitution. What happens to a Christian who refuses to worship the ficticious allah? He is taxed, relegated to second class citizenship, enslaved, and usually killed; brutally. The crime for which he is punished; failure to become a moslem.
If he becomes a moslem, then returns to christianity, what is the punishment? Death. What if he converts a moslem to christianity? What is the punishment? Death.
When he is taken to “court”, the judge is a moslem, usually without legal training or education. His testimony, as a Christian, is worthless. He may not crossexamine his accuser, witnesses or the police. Blood, hair, fiber, DNA, documents, prints, etc., are excluded. Only the lying accusers and their witnesses can present testimony acceptable to the court. And a woman’s testimony counts for only 1/2 the weight of a man’s.
Want your hand cut off? Be falsely accused of shoplifting.
Want to be buried, except for your head, and die as people throw rocks at your head? Be falsely accused of adultery.
And women must be chaste or else; but men may have four wives, unlimited concubines, and divorce at will.
Ready to rush on down to the imam and sign on?