President Joseph R. Biden
May 5, 2022 President Joseph R. Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are writing to request that you, on the occasion of the upcoming U.S.–SEAN Summit, directly raise concerns with the Prime Minister of Vietnam about his government’s antagonistic policies toward religions that do not submit to government control. Of particular concern is the intensifying state-directed and state-supported propaganda that promotes hate speech and incites violence against religious and lay leaders with real and deeply disturbing consequences. Organized mobs known as “Red Flag Associations” have taken to the social media to slander Catholic priests, calling them “black crows,” “traitors,” “canine priests”, “Catholic Moose”, “candle traders”, and “devilish extremists,” among other epithets. Red Flag members have characterized respected monks of the Unified Buddhist Church’s Sangha as “bad f...
