6 - Friday, September 10, 2010
Pastor reconsiders holding Quran burning
Rev. Terry Jones
says he agreed to
meet imam backing
ground-zero mosque
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - An
anti-Islamic preacher backed off
and then threatened to reconsider
burning the Quran on the anni-
versary of the 9/11 attacks, angrily
accusing a Muslim leader of lying
to him Thursday with a promise to
move an Islamic center and mosque
away from New York's ground zero.
The imam planning the center
denied there was ever such a deal.
The Rev. Terry Jones generated
an international firestorm with his
plan to burn the Quran on Satur-
day, the ninth anniversary of the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,
and he has been under intense
pressure to give it up. President
DINGELL
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boost employment in Michigan.
"The University of Michigan
is the largest employer in Ann
Arbor, and a pillar of the local
economy," Jackson said. "Grants
awarded to the University result
in direct and indirect benefits
for the southeastern Michigan
region."
The ISR will use a portion of
the funds - a majority of which
comes from the National Insti-
tutes of Health - to expand their
facilities through the addition of
a four-story wing to their current
building on Thompson Street.
The new facilities will
enhance both research capac-
ity and productivity, help train
future generations of researchers
and make possible the integra-
tion of research across programs,
Jackson explained. For exam-
ple, social science and biomedi-
cal theory may be combined to
incorporate genetic testing in
research.
The new addition is expected
to create 100 new construction
jobs and 92 new jobs for research-
ers, programmers, interviewers
and administrative staff, Jackson
said.
Fernando Martinez, director of
H.E.A.D.S.
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for equal rights and opportuni-
ties.
Engineering sophomore Cha-
nel Beebe said she was able to
learn a lot about the history of
African-Americans at the Univer-
Barack Obama urged him to lis-
ten to "those better angels" and
give up his "stunt," saying it would
endanger U.S. troops and give
Islamic terrorists a recruiting tool.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates
took the extraordinary step of call-
ing Jones personally.
Standing outside his 50-mem-
ber Pentecostal church, the
Dove Outreach Center, alongside
Imam Muhammad Musri, the
president of the Islamic Society
of Central Florida, Jones said
he relented when Musri assured
him that the New York mosque
will be moved.
Musri, however, said after the
news conference that the agree-
ment was only for him and Jones
to travel to New York and meet
Saturday with the imam oversee-
ing plans to build a mosque near
ground zero.
Hours later, Jones said Musri
"clearly, clearly lied tous."
"Given what we are now hear-
ing, we are forced to rethink our
decision," Jones said. "So as of
right now, we are not canceling the
event, but we are suspending it."
Jones did not say whether the
Quran burning could still be held
Saturday, but he said he expect-
ed Musri to keep his word and
expected "the imam in New York
to back up one of his own men."
Jones had never invoked the
mosque controversy as a reason
for his planned protest. He cited
his belief that the Quran is evil
because it espouses something
other than biblical truth and
incites radical, violent behavior
among Muslims.
But he said Thursday afternoon
that he prayed about the decision
and concluded that if the mosque
was moved, it would be a sign from
God to call off the Quran burning.
"We are, of course, now against
any other group burning Qurans,"
Jones said. "We would right now
ask no one to burn Qurans. We are
absolutely strong on that. It is not
the time to do it."
Musri thanked Jones and his
church members "for making the
decision today to defuse the situ-
ation and bring to a positive end
what has become the world over a
spectacle that no one would bene-
fit from except extremists and ter-
rorists" who would use it to recruit
future radicals.
After Jones accused him of lying,
Musri said the pastor "stretched my
words" at the press conference.
"I think there was no confusion
to begin with. When we stepped
out of the church, we had an agree-
ment to meet in New York," Musri
said. He added that Jones "said his
main reason for stopping the event
was that it would endanger the
troops overseas, Americans travel-
ing abroad and others around the
world."
The Michigan Daily - michigandailytom
Federal judge ,
rules that don't
ask don't tell
policy is illegal
Judge Virginia
Phillips says policy
violates the rights of
gays and lesbians
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A feder-
al judge on Thursday declared the
U.S. military's ban on openly gay
service members unconstitutional
and said she will issue an order to
stop the government from enforc-
ing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy
nationwide.
U.S. District Judge Virginia
Phillips said the ban violates the
First and Fifth Amendment rights
of gays and lesbians. "Don't ask,
don't tell" prohibits the military
from asking about the sexual ori-
entation of service members but
requires discharge of those who
acknowledge being gay or are dis-
covered engaging in homosexual
activity, even in the privacy of
their own homes off base.
In her ruling, Phillips said the
policy doesn't help military readi-
ness and instead has a "direct and
deleterious effect" on the armed
services.
The Log Cabin Republicans,
a 19,000-member group that
includes current and former mili-
tary members, filed a lawsuit in
2004 seeking an injunction to
stop the ban's enforcement. Phil-
lips will draft the injunction with
input from the group within a
week, and the federal government
will have a week to respond.
Government lawyers said the
judge lacked the authority to issue
a nationwide injunction.
After-hours e-mails requesting
commentfromU.S. Departmentof
Justice attorneyPaul G.Freeborne
and from the Pentagon were not
immediately returned Thursday.
The lawsuit was the biggest
legal test of the law in recent years
and came amid promises by Presi-
dent Barack Obama that he will
work to repeal the policy.
The LogCabin Republicanssaid
more than 13,500 service mem-
bers have been fired since 1994.
"This decision will change the
lives of many individuals who
only wanted to serve their country
bravely," said the group's attorney,
Dan Woods.
Woods argued during the non-
jury trial that the policy violates
gay military members' rights to
free speech, open association and
right to due process as guaranteed
by the Fifth Amendment.
He said the ban damages the
military by forcing it to reject tal-
ented people as the country strug-@
gles to find recruits in the midst
of a war. Lawyers also submitted
remarks by Obama stating "don't
ask, don't tell" weakens national
security.
Freeborne had argued the pol-
icy debate was political and that
the issue should be decided by
Congress rather than in court.
In his closing arguments he said
the plaintiffs were trying to force a
federal court to overstep its bounds
and halt the policy as it is being
debated by federal lawmakers.
The U.S. House voted in May to
repeal the policy, and the Senate is
expected to address the issue this
year.
That makes the trial unneces-
sary, and the testimony and docu-
mentary evidence presented by
the Log Cabin Republicans irrel-
evant, Freeborne said.
"We do not believe the court
has the authority to issuea nation-
wide injunction," he said.
Government attorneys pre-
sented only the policy's legislative
history in their defense and no
witnesses or other evidence.
Six military officers who were
discharged under the policy testi-
fiedduringthetrial.AdecoratedAir
Force officer testified that he was let
go after his peers snooped through
his personal e-mail in Iraq.
The officers who participated
in the trial were "reacting emo-
tionally because they're so proud
that they were able to play a part
in making this happen," Woods
said after the ruling.
"It'll be an interesting deci-
sion for our president to decide
whether to appeal this case.
He's said that 'don't ask, don't
tell' weakens national secu-
rity, and now it's been declared
unconstitutional," he said. "If he
does appeal, we're going to fight
like heck."
. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) talks about federal funding for research at the Institute for Social Research yesterday.
Pulmonary Diagnostic Services
and professor of internal medi-
cine at the Medical School, said
that part of the Medical School's
grant will be used to study pul-
monary fibrosis, a fatal lung
condition for which the cause is
unknown.
The funds will be used to carry
out a longitudinal study of the
disease components of pulmonary
fibrosis and to build a network
across eight other U.S. medical
and research institutions, Marti-
oity through last night's event.
"I didn't really know about the
history of black people on cam-
pus and I thought that was really
interesting," Beebe said. "I didn't
know it was that hard back then."
LSA sophomore Michael Wil-
liams said he found Harden's
speech to be inspiring.
"I thought he was really reach-
nez said. Not only will this create
jobs, but it will also act as a model
for future research for other dis-
eases, he said.
The College of Engineering
plans to utilize the grants by
offering four additional graduate
and six additional undergraduate
classes throughout the Universi-
ty's three campuses in addition to
new laboratories, said Huei Peng,
professor of mechanical engi-
neering at the University.
Many of the grants will be
ing out to college students, espe-
cially black minorities, people of
color, (and) just telling them to
reach their highest potential, to
take advantage and be as produc-
tive as we can be," Williams said.
Stinson said that he hopes
events like this will foster unity
in the black community - and in
turn the University community
invested in the development
of electric vehicles, including
hybrid technology, green ener-
gy manufacturing and the use
of renewable energy in vehicle
infrastructures, he said.
Officials from the College of
Engineering will also use the
stimulus funds to create sum-
mer camp programs that aim to
attract high school students to
the field of engineering so they
can continue to carry Michigan's
auto industry forward, Peng said.
as a whole - by teaching through
example how the University itself
has overcome racial barriers over
the years.
"We can keep changing, we
can become a better institution,"
Stinson said. "And through that,
through better and stronger com-
munities, it builds a better Uni-
versity."
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