IL: Muslim Girls B-Ball Team to Play Public Schools (Chicago Trib)
Three years ago, girls at a private Muslim high school in suburban Bridgeview asked their basketball coach if they could play against public schools. School administrators hesitated because the teenage athletes removed their head scarves during games and wore uniforms that revealed elbows and knees. Boys at the other schools might sit in the bleachers […]
NE: Muslim Workers Protest for Right to Prayer
A group of 500 Muslim workers from Grand Island’s JBS Swift & Co. plant staged a protest Monday afternoon. Members of the B shift (3 to 11:30 p.m.) and some members of the morning A shift walked off the job after being denied time to pray during what they said is the holiest of times […]
CAIR-FL: Muslim Claims He Was Unfairly Targeted By Police
A Muslim man passing through Jacksonville is filing a complaint against the Jacksonville Police after he says he was unfairly pulled over and questioned. The Georgia man was in town for a medical conference when he was pulled over by the officer.He says he was pulled over because of what he was wearing, a traditional […]
CAIR-FL Video: Muslim Driver Claims Profiling by Police (News4Jax)
A Georgia man who recently visited Jacksonville said he has some very unpleasant memories of the city after he claims he was targeted by a police officer because of his ethnicity.The man, who is Muslim, is filing a complaint against the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, because he said an officer pulled him over and asked him […]
A Jihad-Happy DVD Delivered to a Newspaper Near You
The movie Obsession: Radical Islam’s War With the West, whose trailer is below, was delivered with your Orlando Sentinel newspaper this AM. And, it is my understanding, the DVD was delivered to households receiving other newspapers around the country today as well. True? Apparently, Parade Magazine isn’t conservative enough for some folks. But hey, they […]
Hate Mail, Courtesy of Your Daily Newspaper
Readers of the St. Petersburg Times on Sunday found a little rancid bonus in their newspapers this weekend: a DVD called Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, which is a hate film ostensibly about Islamic terror. It’s really a thinly veiled attempt to influence the presidential election by flooding anti-Muslim sentiment ahead of the […]
Newspaper Refuses to Distribute ‘Islam Terror’ DVD (E&P)
As explored here this past weekend, the Clarion Fund has paid dozens of newspapers across the country — almost solely in “swing” election states — and The New York Times to distribute the “Islam terror” DVD “Obsession” with their home delivery packages. Among the larger cities where this has taken place: Miami, Philadelphia, Denver and […]
CAIR-FL: Islam Video Angers Florida Muslims (Miami Herald)
A controversial DVD distributed to millions of Americans during the past week through direct mail and newspapers, including The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, has angered many Muslims in South Florida.Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the Westwas packaged as an advertising insert in 70 newspapers, including The Sun Sentinel and The Palm Beach Post. […]
CAIR-FL Video: ‘Obsession’ Distributor Refuses to Name Donors
Click here to watch the video. ORLANDO, Fla. — Just weeks before the election, there are questions about a controversial insert published in The Orlando Sentinel. The insert on radical Islam included a 60-minute DVD.Over 300,000 copies of “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against The West” went out to Orlando residents as an insert in Sunday’s […]
CAIR: Swift Dispute has Deep Roots (Greeley Tribune)
The summary of events reads like the setup for a global comedy of manners. For more than a week, primarily East African Muslim workers at the meatpacking plant in north Greeley have squared off against largely Latino workers with JBS Swift & Co., which is owned by a Brazilian family, caught in the middle of […]