A Tennessee district attorney is refusing to apologize after Muslim leaders rebuked him for sharing virulently Islamophobic beliefs in a series of social media posts. “Anti-Muslim bigotry has no place in the administration of justice in Tennessee or anywhere in America,” CAIR’s government affairs director, Robert S. McCaw, said on Friday. “If they expect me to denounce my faith because of their tactics, they are going to be disappointed.”Facebook / Craig Northcott District Attorney 14th Judicial District Craig Northcott is the district attorney for Tennessee's Coffee County. No one other than God has given us any rights,” Northcott reportedly wrote. As an American Muslim, a Tennessean and Chairperson of SCDP, I find DA Craig Northcott’s Islamophobic comments deeply hurtful & plainly unAmerican.

Source: Huffington Post May 20, 2019 23:03 UTC