Veterans Challenge Islamophobia

Veterans Challenge Islamophobia

MICHAEL T. MCPHEARSON·WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Veterans For Peace, working closely with Iraq 

Veterans Against the War, is organizing a 

Veterans Challenge Islamophobia campaign. 

However, this is a campaign for all veterans 

who agree that bigotry and religious 

intolerance must be challenged are 

welcome. Veterans do not have to join 

VFP or agree with VFP on other issues 

to participate.

VFP is organizing this campaign because 

Islamophobia here in the U.S. is a path 

for further demonetization of Muslims 

in foreign lands as a prelude to call for 

U.S. troops to be sent to Iraq and Syria. 

The campaign is a proactive effort to blunt 

the rise of hate and calls for more war.

We call on all our members support the 

campaign and spread the word. Please 

visit www.veteranschallengeislamophobia.org 

for more information. Please follow the 

campaign on Twitter and Facebook. 

We ask veterans to sign on to 

the campaign statement. This campaign 

provides us an opportunity to talk to people 

and groups about the best way to keep 

our nation safe. We should reach out 

to our Muslim brothers and sisters 

to let them know we stand with them.

Many VFP members and chapters 

around the country are already 

resisting war by confronting Islamophobia 

and other forms of hate and bigotry. 

The Smedley D. Butler Brigade, 

Chapter 09, Eastern Massachusetts is 

holding a Muslims are Not Our Enemy 

event, February 27th at the 

Islamic Society of Boston Community Center. 

Please join them if you can. 

See details here

http://www.smedleyvfp.com/veterans-challenge-islamophobia-2/

Chapter 49, Indianapolis has been 

working on this issue for some time 

now and released this statement in 

April of last year. 

http://www.vfp49.org/documents/FreedomOfReligion.pdf

If you or your chapter are working on 

this issue, are planning an event or

would like to be active in the campaign, 

please follow this link to fill out a short form 

to let us know what you are doing and

or to provide information so we can 

follow up for your participation.

The campaign is one of many efforts Veterans 

For Peace has underway to confront war and 

militarism. The Golden Rule will soon 

set sail again to educate about the insanity 

of nuclear weapons. Our Vietnam Full 

Disclosure campaign continues to 

challenge the U.S. government’s narrative 

of the war in Vietnam. The Korea Peace 

Campaign is gearing up to take on the 

war-hawks who continue to promote 

more war rather than diplomacy with 

North Korea. We are preparing for our 

action at Creech Air Force Base as part 

of our campaign against weaponized 

drones and we are organizing to make 

sure veteran’s voices are heard in Congress 

for our annual VFP Lobby Days in May. 

Our members are active, our organization 

is vibrant and our voice is need more 

than ever. Thank you for your work. 

Keep up the resistance to war, and wage peace!