Quinn Signs Religious Tolerance Bill
By Chuck Sudo in News on Aug 20, 2012 3:40PM
Gov. Pat Quinn used the end of Ramadan on Sunday to sign a bill into law that would allow university students with religious conflicts to request and receive alternate assignments.
Quinn also took the opportunity during the bill signing at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, in front of over 15,000 people, to decry the recent hate crimes against Muslims in the Chicago area. In the past week a man shot at a Morton Grove mosque with an air rifle; an acid bomb was thrown at a Lombard Muslim school and Muslim headstones at an Evergreen Park cemetery were discovered to have been defaced.
“These are un-American acts,” he said. “The people of Illinois, all 13 million, abhor anyone who would commit these serious acts of violence as a violation of our constitution.”