Neighborhood Flyer Rejects Kentucky Mosque
A flyer left on doors and mailboxes in a Florence neighborhood is stirring up more attention around a mosque being built nearby. Saturday residents of Cayton Rd. and side streets found the flyer left by an unknown group or person. It sites a recent newspaper article outlining plans to build the Islamic Center of Northern […]
CAIR-NY: Commission Vote a ‘Victory for American Liberty’
The media crowd outnumbered the Landmarks Preservation Commission 10 to one at the Tuesday morning vote for 45-47 Park Place.The five-story building—a prominent example of the store and loft structures that dominated the drygoods warehouse districts of Lower Manhattan—is just not worthy of landmark status, the commissioners agreed. And it’s not the Commission’s job to […]
ACLU Review of National Security, Civil Liberties Under Obama
In the eighteen months since the issuance of those executive orders, the administration’s record on issues related to civil liberties and national security has been, at best, mixed. Indeed, on a range of issues including accountability for torture, detention of terrorism suspects, and use of lethal force against civilians, there is a very real danger […]
CAIR-OH: Group: Anti-Immigration Stance Fuels Hate
Activists for immigrants lashed out at Butler County Sheriff Rick Jones and state Rep. Courtney Combs on Thursday, saying the duo’s push to get an anti-immigration law passed in Ohio fuels hatred and crimes against Hispanics.Officials with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Ohio said “it is not a coincidence” that five Hispanic […]
CAIR-FL Video: Rights Groups Rally to Keep Ariz. Law from Fla.
While people in New York, LA and Phoenix marched in protest of Arizona’s immigration law, immigrant rights groups came together in Tampa as a united force under the Florida Immigration Coalition. …It is not just Latino immigrants who are against the law. Ramzy Kilic of Tampa heads CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. “We already […]
CAIR: Right-Wing Group Launches ‘Anti-Islamic’ Bus Ads
Self-described “anti-jihadist” and conservative blogger Pamela Geller — the executive director of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) — has joined the chorus of right-wing paranoia. Earlier this month on MSNBC, Geller suggested the Islamic center is a “triumphal mosque” on “conquered lands.” Now her organization has recently launched a series of bus ads reading, “Fatwa […]
Evangelical Group Urges Cancellation of Fla. Quran Burning
For Immediate Release: July 29, 2010 Contact: Sarah Kropp, 202-789-1011 The plans recently announced by a Florida group to burn copies of the Qu’ran on September 11 show disrespect for our Muslim neighbors and would exacerbate tensions between Christians and Muslims throughout the world. The NAE urges the cancellation of the burning. NAE President Leith […]
NY Gubernatorial Candidate: Muslims Should be Watched
In an interview last night with NY1 (partially obscured by Paladino’s statement that he will not run for governor on just a third-party line) and speaking this morning with Susan Arbetter on The Capitol Pressroom, Paladino equated those building or using the proposed Cordoba Mosque with Muslim terrorists who attacked the United States on September […]
Tea Partiers Freak Over Six Flags ‘Muslim Day’
But the latest flap is more political. Tea partiers and other anti-Islam activists are freaking out about a Muslim Family Day planned for several Six Flags parks around the country on Sept. 12, the day after the World Trade Center attacks. The event, sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), offers Muslim families […]
ADL: Mosque Opponents Are Bigots, They Should Win
As you have probably heard, the Anti-Defamation League came out against the Ground Zero mosque today. I wanted to highlight this extraordinary bit from their statement: Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam. The […]