PBS Series: ‘Acceptable Muslim-Bashing’
SOME MUSLIMS ARE NOT BAD I attended an extremely disturbing event Thursday night. It was hosted by WETA, the PBS station in Washington DC, and was part of the national launch of an 11-part PBS series, “America at a Crossroads,” to begin airing April 15. It featured clips from the series followed by a panel […]
Two Lebanese-Americans Among Dead in US Campus Massacre
TWO LEBANESE-AMERICANS AMONG DEAD IN US CAMPUS MASSACRE Reema Samaha, a Lebanese-American student, was among 32 people killed Monday during the worst mass shooting in American history. Samaha, 19, a freshman at Virginia Tech University from Centreville, Virginia, was attending French class when the shooter, identified as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, began a second fatal shooting […]
Debbie Schlussel: VA Tech Shooter Might Be a ‘Paki’
DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL SUSPECTED VA TECH SHOOTER MIGHT BE A ‘PAKI,’ PART OF ‘TERRORIST ATTACK’ Responding to the April 16 mass shooting at Virginia Tech, right-wing pundit Debbie Schlussel “speculat[ed]” in an April 16 weblog post that the shooter, who had been identified at that point only as a man of Asian descent, might be a […]
Video: ‘Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People’
VIDEO: REEL BAD ARABS: HOW HOLLYWOOD VILIFIES A PEOPLE
NJ: Officials Deny Muslim Officer Harassed
NJ: PASSAIC OFFICIALS DENY MUSLIM HARASSED Lawyers representing Passaic County and the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department have countersued a Muslim sheriff’s officer who filed an anti-discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed April 3, denies claims that former provisional Officer Tamir Kozrosh endured harassment for his religious and ethnic background while on the job, and seeks damages […]
NY: Muslims Call for Jail Anti-Islam Chaplain’s Dismissal
NY: ROCKLAND MUSLIMS CALL FOR JAILED CHAPLAIN’S DISMISSAL Local Muslims outraged that the Rockland county jail chaplain distributed anti-Islam tracts to inmates at the jail are calling for her dismissal. Teresa Darden Clapp, an ordained Christian minister, was suspended Thursday for passing out religious cartoon booklets that condemned Islam and contained derogatory depictions and descriptions […]
Canada: Muslim Wears Hijab, Black Belt
CANADA: MUSLIM WOMAN WEARS HER HIJAB AND A BLACK BELT WITH PRIDE When news came that young Muslim girls had been turned away from a tae kwon do competition in Quebec because they wore Islamic head scarves, one of the people upset was the former dean of engineering of the University of Ottawa. Aside from […]
FL: Jewish Group Says Mosque Arson ‘Intolerable’
FL: ISLAMIC CENTER ARSON ‘INTOLERABLE’ As leaders of the Jewish community, we unequivocally condemn the act of arson committed against the Islamic Education Center of Tampa on Thursday morning. This type of hate (to the extent it is determined to be a hate crime) against any individual, group or organization is unacceptable, criminal and against […]
CAIR-CAN: Racial Tension Could Flare in Wake of Hijab Ban
CAIR-CAN: RACIAL TENSION COULD FLARE IN WAKE OF NEW HIJAB BAN A taekwondo team of Muslim girls withdrew from a tournament yesterday after they were barred from taking part with their hijabs, threatening to re-ignite Quebec’s contentious debate about accommodating religious minorities. “I feel very sad because we practised so hard,” said 11-year-old Bissan Mansour. […]
CAIR-FL: Educate to Solve Water Shortage
CAIR-FL: SOLUTION MUST START WITH EDUCATING ALL The South Florida Water Management District is calling for water conservation; I say take it a step further and educate Floridians about this indispensable resource. Let the Sunshine State set precedent for others to follow. It often takes a natural disaster to make people band together, simply because […]