Is the Tea Party Movement Islamophobic?
The current wave of anti-mosque protests around the country represents a new threat to the religious freedom of Muslims in America – a threat directed not at terrorists who act in the name of Islam, but at all Muslims and Islam itself. Incidents of discrimination and bias aimed at Muslim Americans have been rising since […]
CAIR: Calif. Mosque Plans Stir Controversy
A rally has been planned for July 30 in front of the center, although there are questions about who is organizing the gathering and whether it will happen. While no group has claimed responsibility for the rally’s organization, local Tea Party Patriots have called on the local community to join the protest.“An Islamic Mosque is […]
CAIR: Muslim U.S. Army Veteran Caught in No-Fly Trap
A 29-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran sits in a bare apartment in a poor part of the Colombian capital, Bogota. He wants to come home, but he can’t. He thinks it’s because he’s on the federal government’s “no-fly list.”Raymond Earl Knaeble is one of an unknown number of Americans stranded overseas. They can’t fly […]
Islam has long history downtown: Why the ‘Ground Zero mosque’ belongs in lower Manhattan
Rick Lazio, the gubernatorial candidate from Suffolk County, doesn’t like it. Sarah Palin, though not exactly a New Yorker, has resoundingly “refudiated” it. More importantly, plenty of ordinary citizens vocally oppose the establishment of a Muslim community center and mosque near the World Trade Center site. But no matter how offensive their presence may be […]
CAIR-LA: School District Rejects Hate Group’s Demands
Schools in the Fountain Valley district will not change the way they portray Islamic history to 7th-graders. After a long, contentious meeting Thursday night, a unanimous school board declined to go further with a proposal by Fountain Valley resident Steve Jackson that they provide supplemental material to the district’s 7th grade social science textbook. Jackson […]
CAIR: Term ‘Islamist’ is Derogatory, Ill-Defined
In addition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration is fighting on another front: a domestic war of words on how to describe the threat posed by “Islamic” terrorism. . . The word “Islamist” has come under particular scrutiny–mostly because it can carry numerous and often derogatory connotations. First heard in academic […]
CAIR: Islamophobia Threatens Rights of U.S. Muslim
. . .”Given the political right’s hate-filled and hysterical response to all things Muslim, one has to ask whether American Muslims face a future in which they will no longer be treated as equal citizens,” counters Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. “The best example of the right’s campaign to […]
CAIR: More Tales From The Anti-Muslim Front Lines
Earlier this week, we delved into the growing anti-Muslim sentiment from conservatives — often taking the form of outraged opposition to the construction of new mosques and Islamic cultural centers around the country. We offered three examples — the vitriol aimed cultural centers set to be built in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Riverside County, California, and, of […]
CAIR-LA: Islamophobes Target Calif. Schools
…The book, approved by the state education department, gives “cleansed” portrayals of Islamic history, according to the group. They want additional pages dropped into the textbook that present what they consider to be the true story if Islam. . . Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Anaheim-based state office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations […]
Video: Rachel Maddow Slams Frank Gaffney’s Anti-Muslim Conspiracy Theories
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy . . . It’s Elena Kagan centrist judicial nominee, solicitor general of the United States and incidentally orthodox Jew caricatured as a Muslim man wearing a turban. You stay classy ” Washington Times.” This is actually the second time the conservative newspaper, the […]