Study Shows ‘Turban Effect’ a Source of Islamophobia
A Muslim-style turban is perceived as a threat, according to a new study, even by people who don’t realize they hold the prejudice, dubbed “the turban effect” by researchers. Research volunteers played a computer game that showed apartment balconies on which different figures appeared, some wearing Muslim-style turbans or hijabs and others bare-headed. They were […]
Hersh: Preparing the Battlefield for Iran
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are […]
U.S. Escalating Covert Operations against Iran
U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush’s funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday. The article by reporter Seymour Hersh, from the magazine’s July 7 and 14 issue, […]
CAIR: Former Professor Indicted in Muslim Charities Case
A former Florida professor who had pleaded guilty to aiding a terror organization was indicted yesterday on criminal charges that he refused to testify before a grand jury investigating whether Islamic charities in Northern Virginia were financing terrorists.The indictment of Sami al-Arian triggered outrage from his family and Muslim groups that have mounted a national […]
Canada: Man Who Slashed Dentist Admitted Hating Muslims
EDMONTON — An Iranian refugee who admitted he hates Muslims has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for slashing a dentist with broken glass. Mohammadreza Gholamrezazdehshirazi, 46, also pleaded guilty to uttering death threats stemming from the Oct. 23, 2007, attack on Dr. Ali Fathi-Afshar. When he was arrested at his home, he expressed a strong […]
Second Time Around for African American Muslims
For many African American Muslims, the fallout from the horrendous crime of Sept. 11, 2001 was not entirely new. The U.S. government’s response was a bit of déjà vu for those, like me, who were civil rights activists in college during the 1960s and 70s. The only difference is that now we face a higher […]
PA: ACLU to Sue U.S. on Behalf of Ousted Muslim Worker
The American Civil Liberties Union said it plans to file a lawsuit today against the U.S. Department of Energy on behalf of Moniem El-Ganayni, a nuclear physicist and Muslim prison chaplain who lost his security clearance and job at the Bettis Laboratory in West Mifflin. The suit will charge that the DOE violated its own […]
Why Obama Should Visit a Mosque
I’ll admit it: I’m thin-skinned about the kinds of slurs and innuendo about Muslims that have accompanied Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Years of being subjected to them while I covered the Bosnian war did that. . . . I’ll admit something else: my own feelings about Islam have veered back and forth in recent years. […]
PA: Muslim Physicist Sues U.S. Energy Department
A pioneer of Pittsburgh’s Muslim community filed a federal lawsuit today against the U.S. Department of Energy and its head, claiming the agency unjustly suspended then revoked his national security clearance — which cost him his job as a nuclear physicist. Dr. Moniem El-Ganayni, 57, of Highland Park claims the Energy Department acted against him […]
Muslim Voters’ Waning Support for Obama?
In Democratic primaries this year the overwhelming majority of Muslim Americans voted for a man who has, throughout the campaign, vigorously knocked down rumors that he is a Muslim. But support for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., during the primaries doesn’t mean the Democrat has a free pass from the Muslim American community. Last week’s incident […]