CAIR-OH: Obama’s Not a Muslim, But Lots of Good People Are
The retired general and former secretary of state appeared on “Meet the Press” last Sunday to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, and then he had this to say about Obama’s religion:“The correct answer is: ‘He is not a Muslim. He’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian.’ But the really right answer is: ‘What […]
NY: Muslims Say Smears Against Obama Hurt Them, Too (Newsday)
Hearing people wrongly say that Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim, Dr. Hafiz Ur Rehman cringes. He cringes, too, when he hears people expressing relief that Obama is not a Muslim. “Either way, they’re implying that there’s something wrong with being a Muslim,” said Rehman, a Bay Shore pediatrician. Many Long Island Muslims say that […]
Video: CAIR Rep Comments on Islamophobia in Presidential Race
Click here to view the video.Edgar Hopida, public relations director of the San Diego Council on American-Islamic Relations, said McCain’s response wasn’t good enough. “The mistake McCain made is that he said he is not an Arab, he is a decent family man, like those two things are mutually exclusive.”He wishes both candidates would do […]
Suhail Khan: Colin Powell and My American Faith (Wash Post)
During the great immigration waves of 1900, a rabbi said of our melting pot, “All names are American names.” How wonderfully true. So too, all faiths are American faiths. America is made up of men and women of all faiths, and all are protected by the Constitution. Colin Powell reminded us of this important fact […]
MN: Candidate Seems to Support Anti-Muslim E-Mail (Pioneer Press)
Hennepin County District Judge and Minnesota Supreme Court candidate Deborah Hedlund received an e-mail Monday with the subject line, “Can Muslims Be Good Americans?” The e-mail came to Hedlund and several other people from Matt Look, owner of Ramsey-based Look Signs, with whom Hedlund was negotiating for some lawn signs. It includes claims that allegiance […]
CAIR: NM Republican’s Anti-Muslim Letter Sparks Outrage (AP)
The chairwoman of an Otero County Republican women’s group on Tuesday defended a letter to the editor in which she wrote, “I believe Muslims are our enemies.”Marcia Stirman, a 56-year-old interior decorator, also called Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama “a Muslim socialist.”A national Islamic group expressed outrage over Stirman’s letter and called on state and […]
NE: FBI Probes Omaha Mosque Vandalism
Abdul Hikmat was preparing to pray at a southwest Omaha mosque on Tuesday afternoon when he discovered shards of glass and chunks of rock scattered across the floor. Someone had thrown a rock through a glass door of the Midwest Islamic Foundation near 138th and Q Streets. The stone shattered more than the door. “I […]
IL: 2 Hoaxes, But It’s Muslim Student Who’s Charged
Talk about timing. The same day the Sun-Times ran my last column, in which I denounced a fake rape story by a south suburban high school senior who described her alleged attacker as Arab-looking, police said a Muslim student at west suburban Elmhurst College admitted she was not the victim of a hate crime on […]
CAIR: GOP Letter on Obama Lambasted (Albuquerque Journal)
Comments from a southern New Mexico Republican leader that “Muslims are our enemies” and that Democrat Barack Obama is a “Muslim socialist” drew criticism Tuesday from religious leaders and a national Islamic group called on the party to repudiate the statements. Otero County Republican Women Chair Marcia Stirman made the comments in a letter published […]
Have Republicans Really Spread the Obama-is-a-Muslim Charge?
One of the most striking parts of Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama was his accusation that Republicans have helped spread the rumor that Obama is Muslim, and turned the word into a smear. “I have heard senior members of my own Party drop the suggestion he’s Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists,” […]