Burma Task Force-New York is hosting an inter-faith press conference to speak out against and spread awareness about the pogrom currently taking place against Rohingya Muslims in Burma / Myanmar. The clergy will also address the spate of shootings in the US, the most recent being the New York City shooting. Muslim Peace Coalition USA, a national alliance of Muslim organisations has welcomed Mayor Blomberg’s prompt announcement that the New York shooter was a disgruntled employee and not a religious bigot. In the past even when the shooter was a non-Muslim Islamophobes had tried to incite hatred against American Muslims by falsely implying that the shooter was a Muslim extremist.
“Earlier Muslim Peace Coalition was highly critical of the New York Police department for its warrantless spying of Muslim communities in the North Eastern US. Such spying actually endangers national security by taking police resources away from investigating real threats and destroys the Muslim community’s trust in the police,” said Dr. Shaik Ubaid, the New york co-chair of MPC-USA.
An inter-faith press conference that was scheduled to address the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims of Burma will now also address the New York shooting.