Source: blogs.tennessean.com State Rep. Rick Womick, R-Rockvale, told a pair of liberal bloggers at today’s Shariah law conference that devout Muslims should be removed from the military. In a video posted Friday afternoon on ThinkProgress, Womick expressed doubt that any devout Muslim could be loyal to the U.S. military. “Personally, I don’t trust one Muslim in our military,” he… [Read more…]
September 12, 2011
Muslims at work are often drawn into a conversation around the water cooler where they have to defend Islam and Muslims against the “Islam is a terroristic religion” or “All Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims” arguments. The following slideshare presentation should give you enough counterarguments both from historical facts and from… [Read more…]
August 7, 2011
LittleGreenFootballs.com PATERSON—A lawyer who defended Muslims detained after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was sworn in as a New Jersey Superior Court judge on Tuesday, as Gov. Chris Christie called those who criticized his nomination ignorant. The appointment of Sohail Mohammed, 47 years old, angered some conservatives, who said they were concerned about the influence… [Read more…]
April 29, 2011
Eve Tahmincioglu, MSNBC… [Read more…] A poll released l[in September 2010] by the Pew Research Center that shows that the public’s view of Islam has deteriorated, with only 30 percent of Americans expressing a favorable opinion of Islam, compared with 41 percent in 2005. “One can easily conclude that since the general situation is so unfavorable… [Read more…]
March 11, 2011
Christian Science Monitor Editorial Board, 3/10. 2011 King hearings on Muslim Americans: When government hits on one group The House hearings chaired by Rep. King focused almost solely on Muslim Americans. Such religious stereotyping by any government body is dangerous. When government makes assumptions about a whole group of people, it’s not the same as… [Read more…]
January 4, 2011
Karin Friedemann (LETTER FROM AMERICA) 1 January 2011 Khaleej Times Since 9/11 hundreds if not thousands of Muslims have faced “preemptive prosecution,” where Muslims who are deemed “dangerous” are prosecuted before they commit a crime. In these prosecutions, there are so many holes in the government’s theories that the case is nothing but a list… [Read more…]
January 1, 2011
NPR Please click here to listen to an interview of Moustafa Bayoumi, author of “How does feel to be a problem?” on NPR. He reviews 2010 with respect to American Muslims. Note from Rafik Beekun: My blog was hacked, and the above link to the interview was changed to refer to a link promoting a… [Read more…]
December 28, 2010
October 27, 2010
Thank you, Juan Williams. Your Islamophobic attitude has now spread like wild fire!! Video 1 Video 2
October 25, 2010
Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com I’m still not quite over the most disgusting part of the Juan Williams spectacle yesterday: watching the very same people (on the Right and in the media) who remained silent about or vocally cheered on the viewpoint-based firings of Octavia Nasr, Helen Thomas, Rick Sanchez, Eason Jordan, Peter Arnett, Phil Donahue, Ashleigh Banfield, Bill Maher,… [Read more…]
October 24, 2010
Tennessean.com First of Two Parts Steven Emerson has 3,390,000 reasons to fear Muslims. That’s how many dollars Emerson’s for-profit company — Washington-based SAE Productions — collected in 2008 for researching alleged ties between American Muslims and overseas terrorism. The payment came from the Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation, a nonprofit charity Emerson also founded, which… [Read more…]
October 18, 2010
By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 18, 201 Andy Warhol found artistic inspiration in a can of Campbell’s tomato soup. These days, some activists are finding sinister Muslim connections in the same can. Campbell Soup Co., the Camden, N.J., food giant, has been fighting a grass-roots boycott of its products after its… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, New York TImes At a time of growing tensions involving Muslims in the United States, a record number of Muslim workers are complaining of employment discrimination, from co-workers calling them “terrorist” or “Osama” to employers barring them from wearing head scarves or taking prayer breaks. Such complaints were increasing even before frictions… [Read more…]
September 1, 2010
Arsalan Iftikar, CNN Editor’s note: Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, founder of TheMuslimGuy.com and legal fellow for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Washington. (CNN) — Almost everybody has heard about the protests against the mosque and Islamic center planned to be built about two blocks from ground zero in… [Read more…]
September 1, 2010
August 30, 2010
By ROBERT MACKEY, New York Times Updated | 11:19 a.m. On Sunday, one day after a fire at the site of a planned Islamic center and mosque in the Nashville suburb of Murfreesboro, Muslim community members reported hearing gunshots as they inspected the damage. Saleh Sbenaty, an engineering professor at Middle Tennessee State University who… [Read more…]
August 27, 2010
Ahmed Rehab, The Huffington Post Leaders of astroturf groups opposing the Not-At-Ground-Zero-Muslim-Center can’t seem to decide on an argument. They have thrown everything and the kitchen sink at us in the way of fabricated reasons. First, they tried the “legal” route. When it became apparent that American Muslims had a constitutionally guaranteed right to religious,… [Read more…]
August 26, 2010
Sam Stein, Huffiington Post In a rousing address before a predominantly Muslim audience Tuesday night, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reaffirmed his commitment to the controversial Islamic cultural center near the former site of the World Trade Center. Bloomberg, who hosted the annual Ramadan Iftar dinner at his official Gracie Mansion residence, did not… [Read more…]
August 25, 2010
By Richard Cohen, Washington Post Tuesday, August 24, 2010; A15 When it comes to the mosque that’s neither too close to Ground Zero for its proponents nor far enough away for its opponents, the disturbing word “compromise” is now being tossed around. It has been suggested by New York Gov. David Paterson, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan and,… [Read more…]
August 23, 2010
Joshua Holland, Alternet Anti-Islam groups created by extremists like Pamela Geller are on a crusade against U.S. Muslims. August 22, 2010 | Pamela Geller, the once-obscure right-wing blogger known for peddling hateful, wildly over-the-top rhetoric (she once claimed that Barack Obama was the bastard stepchild of Malcom X) and for pulling stunts like taping a… [Read more…]
August 20, 2010
August 17, 2010
7:23 am August 17, 2010, by Cynthia Tucker What has happened to the leadership of the Republican Party? Are there no longer any statesmen/women in the GOP? Does the party have any leading figures who believe in the Bill of Rights? The GOP’s leadership has been taken over by a group of shrill demagogues who… [Read more…]
August 17, 2010
Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There Is No ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ – 08/16/10
August 16, 2010
Justin Elliott, Salon.com A group of progressive Muslim-Americans plans to build an Islamic community center two and a half blocks from ground zero in lower Manhattan. They have had a mosque in the same neighborhood for many years. There’s another mosque two blocks away from the site. City officials support the project. Muslims have been… [Read more…]
August 14, 2010
Note from Rafik Beekun: Thank you New York TImes. You got it right in this editorial about the Muslim Community Center in Lower Manhattan. It has been disturbing to hear and read the vitriol and outright bigotry surrounding the building of a mosque two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.… [Read more…]
August 14, 2010
Sally Steenland, Huffington Post Protesters have recently been rallying against a proposed Islamic educational center containing a mosque near Ground Zero, claiming that the proximity of anything Muslim to Ground Zero would contaminate a hallowed place. Protesters claim they aren’t anti-Muslim; they merely want the center and mosque to be built someplace else. But it… [Read more…]
August 13, 2010
Republicans in the USA are using Islamophobia to galvanize their political base for the upcoming elections.
August 7, 2010
Al Jazeera “I’ve already been here for 960 days, and today is the 961st,” said the weather-beaten Tatar man, squinting beneath the powerful Crimean sun. Seydamet Smailov has spent almost three years living alone in a dilapidated cabin by the side of a busy road in the Ukrainian city of Simferopol because he has a… [Read more…]
August 7, 2010
Commentary from Rafik Beekun: Thank you, Fareed Zakaria, for standing up to the Islamophobic stance on the part of ADL against the Muslim Community Center two blocks from Ground Zero. CNN.com New York (CNN) — Fareed Zakaria, the CNN host and Newsweek columnist, has returned a prestigious prize to the Anti-Defamation League, another rebuke for… [Read more…]
August 4, 2010
Pamela Geller v/s Ron Reagan
August 2, 2010
Share Today at 12:52pm (WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/2/10) — CAIR today called on American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact New York’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to ask that its members defend religious freedom and reject efforts by Islamophobes to block construction of an Islamic community center in that city. The commission will vote Tuesday… [Read more…]
July 31, 2010
Comment from Rafik Beekun: Hitler, too, burned books. Look what happened to him and his acolytes.
July 30, 2010
Note from Rafik Beekun: ADL is the Anti-Defamation League and was founded in 1913 “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” Now the nation’s premier civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for… [Read more…]
July 19, 2010
Source: Gawker.com Sample Racist Signs at Tea Party Events Reacting to the NAACP’s resolution asking Tea Partiers to root out racism, Tea Partly Leader wrote a very racist satire on his blog which has now led to his deserved expulsion. Mark Williams is also the same person who stated that Muslims worship a “monkey-god”. Here… [Read more…]
July 16, 2010
In Part 1- Campbell Brown discusses the recent contentious Landmark commission hearing about the Building slated to become a Muslim community center two blocks from Ground Zero. She sets the stage for a debate on the issue between Dr. Zuhdi Jasser (AIFD President) and Reza Aslan Part 1 of 2 Part 2 of 2 Reza… [Read more…]
July 15, 2010
CAIR Ibrahim Hooper from CAIR has recently listed some very distasteful examples of Islamophobic incidents that members of the Tea Party have engaged in. [Note from Rafik Beekun: Tea Party officials should remember that Americans know hate speech when they see it and that there are over 6 millions American Muslims in the USA many… [Read more…]
July 15, 2010
Note from Rafik Beekun: The ad below is one of the most Islamophobic ads I have ever seen. It has been launched by the National Republican Trust Pac, and plays on the worst fears of my fellow countrymen in the US. As the former President of the Northern Nevada Republican Men’s club, I deplore this… [Read more…]
July 12, 2010
CAIR is suggesting that all U.S. Muslim Travelers (US citizens included) obtain the cell phone of an attorney before traveling overseas just in case they are placed on the No-Fly list and they are prevented from returning to the US. U.S. Muslim Travelers Prevented From Returning to the U.S. FBI Prevents Virginia Muslims From Returning… [Read more…]
June 30, 2010
Liberty U. removing Ergun Caner as seminary dean over contradictory statements By William Wan and Michelle Boorstein Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, June 30, 2010; B01 LYNCHBURG — At an evangelical institution such as Liberty University, personal testimonies are a kind of sacred currency; how Jesus saved you from damnation often defines you as a… [Read more…]
June 10, 2010
May 27, 2010
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 5/27/10) — A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today filed a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaint against a radio talk show host in Texas who yesterday advocated bombing a proposed New York City mosque. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Houston radio host Michael Berry (KTRH-AM 740) made… [Read more…]
May 12, 2010
May 8, 2010
Media Ignore The Fact That Man Who Alerted Police To Failed Times Square Bombing Is A Muslim Immigrant This post originally appeared on Think Progress. The chief suspect in the case of the failed Times Square car bombing is Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, who has confessed to the plot. Much of the media has latched onto Shahzad’s Muslim… [Read more…]
May 2, 2010
Note from Rafik Beekun: It is noteworthy that Molly Norris who launched the “Draw Muhammad Day” in order to defend the First Amendment points out (in the video clip below) that she drew a cartoon of Muhammad (s), but would never draw a cartoon of the Holocaust. This is pure hypocrisy and double speak on… [Read more…]
April 17, 2010
Once-Banned Muslim Scholar Tariq Ramadan on His First Visit to US in Six Years, President Obama and Why Muslims Should Make Their Voices Heard Democray Now speaks with leading Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was banned from entering the United States for six years. In 2004, Ramadan had accepted a job to become a tenured… [Read more…]
March 31, 2010
Outrage as personal files of undergraduates at Detroit bomb suspect’s college handed to US By Syma Mohammed and Robert Verkaik, independent.co.uk Thursday, 1 April 2010 Personal information concerning the private lives of almost 1,000 British Muslim university students is to be shared with US intelligence agencies in the wake of the Detroit bomb scare. The… [Read more…]
March 28, 2010
JENNIFER CHAMBERS The Detroit News At least seven people, including some from Michigan, have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian militia group, a person familiar with the matter said. The suspects are expected to make an… [Read more…]
March 27, 2010
SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice WASHINGTON, March 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Senior Judge Robert L. Echols of the Middle District of Tennessee today sentenced Eric Ian Baker to 183 months in prison for vandalizing and burning down the Islamic Center of Columbia, Tenn., the Justice Department announced. Baker pleaded guilty on Sept. 18, 2009, to destruction… [Read more…]
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