The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) and CAIR, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith’s latest anti-Muslim remarks, in which he falsely described the Islamic call to prayer (adhan) as “words of death and destruction,” claimed the United States is a “Christian nation,” and incorrectly asserted that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Christianity takes precedence over all other religions.
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During a recent interview, Beckwith stated, “We’re not going to let you put these words of death and destruction throughout the city streets…”
He also claimed, “We are a Christian nation,” and falsely asserted that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled America’s Christian heritage gives Christianity precedence over all other faiths.
In a statement, CAIR-Chicago Communications Director Hafsa Haider said:
“Lieutenant Governor Beckwith is once again exploiting his public office to spread anti-Muslim fearmongering and constitutional misinformation. The adhan is a peaceful call to prayer recited by Muslims around the world for more than fourteen centuries. To portray it as a call to ‘death and destruction’ is not only offensive—it is a malicious falsehood that demonizes an entire faith and the millions of Americans who practice it.
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