...Governor Patrick held a press conference last week and essentially assured us that everything is fine. Now he is pandering to special interest groups with talk of 'cultural awareness training' for law enforcement and promises to urge employers to allow Muslims to leave work early on Fridays so they can make it to Mosque for prayers.

It comes as no surprise that Governor Patrick is talking this way: In 2007, he naïvely attributed the 9/11 bombings to a "failure of human understanding" in America.

This same politically correct mentality recently caused our Legislature to vote down the Perry Amendment, even while so many families living legally in Massachusetts are hurting. It is the same attitude that led the city of Boston to boycott Arizona for simply doing what the federal government refuses to do: securing our national borders.

I fully support equal protection under the law for every American, regardless of race or creed, but this is political correctness run amok. Governor Patrick should stop playing politics with terrorism and focus on protecting all the citizens of this Commonwealth. It's time for all of us to come together as Americans to prevent a tragedy before it occurs.

The overwhelming majority of Muslim-Americans are peaceable people who love this land, but the bottom line is, someone in Boston knew about this before it happened and didn't speak up. That has to change...

Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders, adorned in the vestments of their respective faiths, stood shoulder to shoulder on the steps of a Roxbury mosque today and strongly condemned Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill's remarks blasting Governor Deval Patrick's attendance last weekend at a forum at the mosque.

The gathering included leaders from the Archdiocese of Boston, the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, the Massachusetts Council of Churches, some of Boston's most prominent black churches, and several Jewish temples...

YouTube video shows Governor Patrick embracing the radical leadership of the Muslim American Society (MAS), including an Imam who who told followers they must "pick up the gun and the sword" in the context of the arrests of local Islamic extremist Aafia Siddiqui and terror suspect Tarek Mehanna.

Boston, MA, May 27, 2010 -- The Muslim Brotherhood is the source of most of Jihad ideology and related terror throughout the world today. Yet Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is embracing the MAS: a Muslim organization that Federal prosecutors have called "the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood."

Today, Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), an organization of Christians, Jews and Islamic reformers, released a 7 minute video showing the close relationship of the Governor to these radicals.
Dr. Charles Jacobs, APT president, said the video highlights Governor Patrick's visit last Saturday to the Muslim American Society's (MAS) controversial Saudi-funded Roxbury mega-mosque and cultural center.
Jacobs said, "The Governor's embrace of Imam Faarooq is especially egregious, given that the Imam recently urged congregants to "pick up the sword and the gun" in the context of supporting recently arrested local Muslims on terror-related charges.

"And it is especially troubling that the office of the MA Attorney General Martha Coakley," Dr. Jacobs continued, "accepted a $50K grant from Imam Faarooq and the MAS to fund the training of Massachusetts law enforcement agencies, training which will likely be conceived and conducted by radicals." The Governor also agreed to comply with a list of "commitments" that MAS leaders requested of him. "These requests," said Jacobs, "which seek to privilege the Muslim community, may open the way for Sharia finance in Massachusetts, and may also encourage the dissemination of radical Islamic propaganda in state agencies and the public schools."

"We can not let false accusations of racism and Islamophobia intimidate our leadership into failing to secure our community," Jacobs said, "We are puzzled as to why the Governor embraces the radicals and their agenda instead of reaching out to truly moderate Muslim leaders in the Boston area."

Governor Patrick please consider the concerns of all the citizens of the Commonwealth and:

1. Stop embracing radicals
2. Give back the questionable money
3. Reach out to truly moderate Muslims
4. Don't let political correctness compromise our security