Religion News Service: As GOP revives threat of Shariah, Muslims call the campaign a gambit for votes

Exchanges like these prompted MPAC and the Interfaith Alliance, a First Amendment watchdog group, to go to Capitol Hill to create moral pressure on members of Congress to reject anti-Muslim sentiment. Tarin and the Rev. Paul Raushenbush, CEO of the Interfaith Alliance, were joined by Rabbi David Saperstein, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for religious freedom; and Sister Marie Lucey of the Franciscan Action Network, as well as roughly two-dozen other faith leaders.

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