CA: ‘Islamo-Fascism’ Week’s Focus Stirring Controversy
A weeklong series of events called Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, put on by Bruin Republicans, is beginning today amid some controversy. Similar events will be held at hundreds of campuses across the nation as part of a terrorism-awareness project started by conservative writer and activist David Horowitz. “The idea is to raise awareness about the threat […]
PA: Santorum’s Speech on Muslims Sparks Anger
Ten months after leaving office, former Sen. Rick Santorum is back in the thick of controversy over whether he and other conservatives’ “hate speech” is stirring up anti-Muslim sentiments. Santorum is headlining an event on the campus of Penn State University Tuesday night that is part of a controversial line-up of conservative speakers in Islamo-Fascism […]
IN: ‘Islamo-Facism’ Week Misfires by Targeting Professors
Starting today, a coalition of conservative organizations will be holding “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” at college campuses across the country. Organized by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, the event will include demonstrations, petitions, distribution of political materials and speeches by figures such as Horowitz, Ann Coulter and U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, who will all confront “the […]
WI: ‘Islamo-Fascist’ Moniker Meaningless
As a former military intelligence soldier with eight years in uniform and two tours in Iraq under my metaphorical belt, I would like to point out how freaking idiotic the “Islamo-Fascist” neologism really is. For one, “fascist” and “totalitarian” are not synonyms, no matter what Bill O’Reilly might have told you. The only way to […]
MO: Muslims to Wear Pink Hijabs for Breast-Cancer Awareness
After years of watching non-Muslims warily eye her religious attire, Hend El-Buri joked with some veiled friends that it might finally break the ice if they all wore bright pink hijabs to their University of Missouri classes one day. The wardrobe whim has evolved into a national campaign involving thousands of other Muslim students, aiming […]
CA: Muslim Women Explain Misconceptions
In the spring of 2004, Dr. Waheeda Samady decided to wear a black head scarf, or a hijab, for the first time in her life, even though she has always been a practicing Muslim. Her classmates in medical school immediately asked if someone she knew had died, she said. Their second conclusion, she said, was […]
Evangelicals Pay Iranian Jews to Move to Israel
U.S. evangelical Christians are offering Iranian Jews $10,000 per person to immigrate to Israel. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which is sponsoring the program, has raised $1.4 million for the aliyah project. It increased the grant offer to $10,000 from $5,000 after a lower-than-expected response rate, The Associated Press reported. The fellowship claims […]
FL: Muslim Man Freed, Given No Reason for Detention
Iyad Abuhajjaj walked out of jail last week with as many questions as he had when he went in 7-1/2 months earlier. Over those weeks, he had been questioned by police detectives, FBI agents, newspaper reporters and attorneys. Every part of his life from birth to now was spilled and discussed in detail with strangers. […]
U.S. Reps Apologize to Falsely Accused Canadian Muslim
A clutch of U.S. congressmen apologized publicly yesterday to Maher Arar, the man Canada’s Mounties once fingered as a terrorist and who was later shipped by the Bush administration to Syria where he was tortured. “Let me personally give you what our government has not – an apology,” said Bill Delahunt, a Massachusetts Democrat, who […]
CAIR: Inner Drive Takes Muslim Woman to D.C.
A young local Muslim lauded by Bakersfield and Pasadena city leaders for her continuous community activism has become the highest-ranking woman in America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group.Tahra Goraya, 34, was hired in September as the Washington, D.C.-based deputy director and chief operating officer for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. That makes her the organization’s […]