Anti-Muslim NC Rep. Linked to Extremist Group
Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) is one of North Carolina’s staunchest defenders from Islamic extremism. When it comes to Christian extremism, though, the record is more mixed. Myrick held a forum on Thursday, Feb. 25, with about 200 of her Charlotte-area constituents from the Muslim community to address what many see as a record of offensive […]
CO: Female Comedian Stands Up for Islam (Greeley Trib)
Tissa Hami knows something about being hijacked. Her budding career fell victim to cratering public opinion toward people of Middle Eastern descent in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. Hami is essentially American, having lived in the United States most of her life. But she was born in Iran to Iranian parents and lived […]
NC Imam Delivers Opening Prayer in House of Representatives
Duke University’s Muslim chaplain will deliver the opening prayer for the U.S. House of Representatives today, an honor few clergy, and even fewer Muslim clergy, get. Abdullah Antepli, appointed the university’s first full-time Muslim chaplain in 2008, was invited to give the 10 a.m. prayer by Rep.David Price, a Democrat from Chapel Hill. The Turkish-born […]
CAIR-CA: Muslims, Japanese-Americans Share Experiences
The power to change the injustice toward minority groups in America is “in the youth,” said sophomore teacher preparation and math major John Kanemoto at today’s Voices Unite in Solidarity: Japanese-American and Muslim-American Experiences Post 9/11 forum.The forum, which was held in the Redwood Room, focused on paralleling the experiences of Japanese-Americans during World War […]
Does Rep. Myrick Think Islam is a ‘Terminal Disease’?
TalkingPointsMemo today describes the confrontation between Myrick and her Muslim constituents over her wacky investigation of “intern spies” and her endorsement of a WorldNetDaily book called Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America. Myrick wrote the forward to the book. Her constituents noted that the author of the book, David Gaubatz, […]
NC: Rep. Myrick Distances Herself from Islam-Basher
Muslim constituents repeatedly challenged Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) at an emotional town hall meeting in Charlotte Thursday, with Myrick scrambling to distance herself from the Islam-bashing co-author of the book Muslim Mafia, whose foreword was written by the congresswoman herself. Myrick has had a tense relationship with her district’s Muslim community for many years, but […]
Muslim White House Appointee a Bridge Between Worlds (Wash. Post)
Rashad Hussain, President Obama’s new special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, was an avid high school debater in Plano, Tex., where he grew up. His debate partner and best friend was a classmate named Josh Goldberg, meaning that at the end of many tournaments, the judge would announce “Goldberg-Hussain” as the cultural […]
NY: Muslim’s Lawsuit Accuses NYPD of Bias in Hiring (NY Times)
As the New York Police Department has initiated and expanded counterterrorism efforts in foreign countries over the last several years, it has also aggressively tried to recruit speakers of Arabic and other languages of countries where Islam holds sway. But a Moroccan immigrant who applied to become a police officer as a result of those […]
Wilders Goes for Hijab Ban in The Hague
A ban on headscarves for city council workers and in all institutions and clubs which get local authority money will be the most important point in the PVV´s negotiations to join governing coalitions in Almere and the Hague, says party leader Geert Wilders. Speaking to RTL news, Wilders said the ban would be central to […]
Fired from Hollister for Wearing the Hijab?
A Muslim woman, apparently fired from teen clothier Hollister Co. for wearing the hijab, a religious headscarf, filed a federal complaint this week charging that she was wrongfully fired due to religious discrimination.Hani Khan, a Bay Area college student, was let go from the clothing chain, which is owned by Abercrombie & Fitch, because her […]