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Christian action network paid hooters waitresses to incite hate at muslim business
Christian Action Network is an anti-Islamic organization founded by Martin Mawyer in 1990. It has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The organization states that its "primary goals are to protect America’s religious and moral heritage through educational efforts."
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- Christian action network paid hooters waitresses to incite hate at muslim business
- Campaign against the Ground Zero Mosque
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The group has advocated on a number of issues, including actions against the National Endowment of the Arts, battles regarding First Amendment to the United States Constitution issues, and the Islamic community center to be built near the World Trade Center site in New York.
Campaign against the “Ground Zero Mosque”
The organization had a nationwide screening tour that included stops near speaking engagements by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the former spokesman for Park51. The group's campaign received wide press coverage.
CAN and American Center for Law and Justice threatened the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation with legal action after it was unable to get permits to show its propaganda film in several public parks around the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Department said the parks were unavailable. The organization then announced that they were granted permits to show its film in several parks.
On September 7, 2011, congressman Allen West (R-FL) hosted a screening of the film in the Rayburn House Office Building in Congress, where he reiterated his opposition to Park51 alongside several people who lost family members in the September 11th attacks.
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) responded by sponsoring an event on September 13, 2011, to publicize a report about the "Islamophobia network" in the U.S. The report criticized Rep. Allen West for spreading anti-Muslim sentiment and for his involvement in the event at which the work of propaganda was screened. It also criticized the Christian Action Network and other participants.