Muslim leaders excoriated California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for ignoring their request to meet about the war in Lebanon. Schwarzenegger and his aides have disregarded repeated phone calls asking him to explain his appearance at a July 23 pro-Israel event and get the “other, equally important side” of the Lebanon-Israeli conflict, according to Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California.
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