Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our universal human rights of freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, and freedom of worship for ALL people — without exception.

In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, anti-mosque protester Kevin Fisher has joined with others in seeking to deny an expansion of an existing house of worship by the Murfreesboro Islamic Center, as Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has previously reported.

Anti-mosque protest leader Kevin Fisher was one of 20 speakers and a primary organizer of the anti-mosque protest event. Kevin Fisher is a former candidate for the local school board and the state legislature, according to APB.

Kevin Fisher has also expressed his opposition to other belief and spiritual systems, including the Falun Dafa / Falun Gong, who have been oppressed by the Communist Chinese party for 11 years, and which in March 2010 received a U.S. Congressional resolution opposing their oppression in the Communist nation.  Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline consisting of moral principles and slow-motion physical exercises, has been persecuted in Communist China since 1999.

R.E.A.L. has regularly reported on the brutal and violent oppression by the Communist Chinese government against Falun Dafa / Falun Gong practitioners, as also attested to by the United States Congress and repeatedly by global human rights organizations. One does not have to be a practitioner or believer of Falun Dafa to stand behind our Universal Human Rights for all people – everywhere.  There is no “right wing” or “left wing” side of supporting basic human rights for all, and opposing concentration camps.

According to the Daily News Journal (DNJ), protest leader and politician Kevin Fisher stated that his opposition to the Murfreesboro, Tennessee mosque was comparable to his opposition to the Falun Gong, oppressed in Communist China.  Kevin Fisher told the Daily News Journal that “We wouldn’t want Falun Gong building out there. We wouldn’t want any kind of extremist entity in that area.”

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) contacted Kevin Fisher to get an explanation on his opposition to the Falun Gong.

We have never received a reply from Kevin Fisher on his opposition to the Falun Gong.

Just a few days before anti-mosque campaigner Kevin Fisher’s comments to the Daily News Journal against the Falun Dafa / Gong, thousands of its practitioners had gathered together in Washington DC to remember the oppression, torture, brutality, and murder of its supporters in the Communist People’s Republic of China.

We ask those in support of the anti-mosque campaigns if this is the direction that they want to take America, to openly seek to deny our Constitutional and Universal Human Rights for all Americans and all human beings, and to follow a course to openly seek to deny freedom of conscience to others, as the Communist People’s Republic of China has done.

In January 2010, R.E.A.L. attended a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC, where Shen Yun performers and Falun Dafa practitioners were shocked that Hong Kong had blocked one of their performances, based on perceived influence against their freedom of expression and conscience by the Communist People’s Republic of China.

But now we see Americans who are leading anti-mosque campaigns that share the same perspective of a totalitarian nation such as Communist China to seek to deny freedom of conscience in America.

Americans can and must do better.

Americans can and must collectively become Responsible for Equality And Liberty.

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