“It’s fine to be a religion man,” said Murat Duka, 55, a distant relative of the defendants who was the first of the Dukas — now numbering about 200 — to move to the Northeast and work as a roofer. “But if you get too much to the religion, you get out of your mind and you do stupid things.”
Related update: Fortunately, only a few are stuck on stupid: Johnstown imam ousted over ‘death’ remarks
The New York Sun reports:
Senator Schumer would not commit to backing legislation that would give added legal protection to people who report suspicious activities, but he said yesterday that he “generally supports protecting whistleblowers.”
City lawmakers are pushing Mr. Schumer and Senator Clinton to support a measure that passed in the House giving civil immunity to those who report possible terrorist activity. Rep. Peter King of Long Island introduced the motion, known as the John Doe amendment, after the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit on behalf on six imams who were removed from a USAirways flight in November.
“I’d have to give it a look,” Mr. Schumer told The New York Sun. “I generally support protecting whistleblowers.”
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Mrs. Clinton’s Senate office has not responded to requests for comment on the matter.
