Holder Targets Racial Profiling (Detroit News)
Detroit — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a crowd of law enforcement, and community and Muslim leaders Thursday the U.S. Justice Department “is again open for business.” “I can assure you under my leadership the Department of Justice will enforce all of our nation’s laws with equal conviction,” Holder declared, saying that under the […]
Holder: Protect Rights of Muslims (Free Press)
Reaching out to Arab Americans and Muslims, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a Detroit speech Thursday night that their full rights must be protected as the country battles security threats. “This is not blind adherence to political correctness,” Holder told hundreds at the Detroit Marriott in the Renaissance Center. “It is devotion to […]
CAIR-GA: Does Religion Play Role in Mosque Controversy? (AJC)
Some neighborhood residents say religion has nothing to do with their vocal fight against rezoning plans to put a 20,000-square-foot mosque, cemetery and gymnasium at U.S. 29 and Hood Road. But some members of the local Muslim congregation of Dar-E-Abbas aren’t so sure. They say religion plays a part, evidenced by comments they’ve read on […]
CAIR-Cincinnati Video: ‘America is My Country’
CAIR-Cincinnati Executive Director Karen Dabdoub discusses the Ohio Muslim community’s reaction to the Fort Hood shooting spree.
Video: CAIR Rep Discusses Fort Hood Shootings with Roland Martin
CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper discusses the Fort Hood shooting spree on TV One’s Washington Watch with Roland Martin.
NYU Students Rebut ‘Going Muslim’ Column
NYU’s United Muslims Association held a teach-in at the Kimmel Center yesterday afternoon to rebut “Going Muslim,” a controversial column published on Forbes.com last week by Stern professor Tunku Varadarajan. (More)
Palin on Muslim Profiling: ‘I’m All For It’
On Hannity last night, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she’s “all for” profiling Muslims if it saves “innocent American lives.” (More)
CAIR-Chicago: Woman Charged with Anti-Muslim Hate Crime
A southwest suburban woman has been charged with a hate crime for an alleged attack on a Muslim woman at a grocery earlier this month. Amal Abusumayah was paying for groceries at the Jewel store at 17117 S. Harlem Ave. in Tinley Park on Nov. 7 when she felt a sharp tug on her headscarf. […]
Wash Post: VA Gov-Elect Must Reassure Muslims
Reliable numbers are hard to come by, but at a very conservative guess there are tens of thousands of Muslims living in Virginia. Now one of the top financial donors to Robert F. McDonnell, the state’s governor-elect, has smeared them all by saying that their faith is not a religion at all, but rather a […]
Rep. Connolly Decries Robertson’s ‘Hateful Rhetoric’
FAIRFAX – Congressman Gerry Connolly has called on Pat Robertson to apologize for his statement that Islam is “not a religion” but a “violent political system.” In a statement issued Wednesday, Connolly said Robertson caused substantial hurt and damage for the Muslim community in Northern Virginia and across the Commonwealth in the week since he […]