Mogul Russell Simmons leads "Today I am a Muslim, too" rally in Times Square, ap photo
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3/6/11, "Crowd in NYC rallies against hearing on US Muslims," AP, Karen Matthews
"Some 300 people gathered in Times Square on Sunday to speak out against a planned congressional hearing on Muslim terrorism, criticizing it as xenophobic and saying that singling out Muslims, rather than extremists, is unfair.
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and the imam who had led an effort to build an Islamic center near the World Trade Center site were among those who addressed the crowd....
- Simmons promised "to make sure that this rally is taken to the next generation and to a new age"
by enlisting entertainers and sports figures to tweet about it, including Kim Kardashian, who tweeted Sunday that she stood with Simmons in "promoting love and compassion.""...
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Russell often wears his Yankee hat.
6/24/10, "How Russell Simmons Out-Lobbied Big Banks," Business Week
"It was surely the only time that lawmakers hammering out the financial regulation bill were lobbied by a man wearing a hoodie and New York Yankees baseball hat. That's how Russell Simmons showed up on Capitol Hill earlier this month to fight a proposal to cap the fees retailers pay banks to process debit-card payments."...
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Here he is in a 'white on white' Yankee cap, raised white emblem embossed on white hat. The photo accompanied a piece describing his support of the Ground Zero mosque near the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
8/26/10, "Russell Simmons speaks out in favor of the 'Ground Zero mosque,'" Entertainment Weekly
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Simmons felt the Nov. 2010 elections were a crisis moment for civil rights rather than citizens having experienced 4 long years of a House of Representatives out of touch with America. He wrote in the Huffington Post:
"Make no mistake: this is a civil rights election."...
11/1/10, "Don't vote, and we'll get the Alice in Wonderland Congress from hell," Huffington Post, Russell Simmons
Russell doesn't sound very inclusive, tolerant, or open minded in this case.
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