Post Tagged with: "CAIR"

29Mar
2011

When Hate Comes to Town

It is a late afternoon and a crowd mostly made up of Tea Party members are standing outside a community center protesting against a meeting that Muslims from their community are having, shouting all sorts of degrading remarks about Islam, Muslims and the beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw). What was surprising about this event was that it didn’t take place in a region that has never seen or heard about Muslims or Islam before — this was Orange County, California. And [...]

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20Mar
2011

The Climate for Student Protest: The Case of the Irvine 11

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20Mar
2011

First Congressional Hearing on the Radicalization of American Islamic Communities

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The first congressional hearing on the radicalization of American Muslims opened on March 10th, revealing a great partisan divide in how congressmen view the role of Muslims in thwarting terrorist threats and the “role of mosques in America.”

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19Aug
2010

Disney restaurant hostess sues for permission to wear hijab

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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0819-disney-hijab-20100819,0,5537139.story Looks to be another casualty in the war against Civil Rights. Boudlal informed her supervisor she wanted to wear the hijab and they said they would check with corporate, but she never received a response. Later on, Disney’s costume department went as far as fitting her for a hijab designed to work with her costume, but they never followed through. Boudlal attempted to follow protocol in effort to get permission to wear her hijab, but the system just didn’t respond. And now, [...]

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18Aug
2010

Action: Thank NJ Governor, Olbermann, Stewart for Challenging Islamophobia

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This week, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie challenged Islamophobia by weighing in on the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ controversy. Watch Keith Olbermann: There is no ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann clarifies the misconceptions surrounding the community center. Send a note of thanks to Olbermann via e-mail: Countdown@msnbc.com, KOlbermann@msnbc.com Watch Jon Stewart mock Islamophobia: Mosque-erade Send a note of thanks to Stewart through: http://www.comedycentral.com/help/questionsCC.jhtml New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie [...]

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16Mar
2010

Apartment Complex Refuses to Rent to Muslims

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NEWS 8 INVESTIGATES by DAVID SCHECHTER / WFAA-TV EULESS — A North Texas apartment complex is facing accusations that it segregates Muslims in buildings away from other tenants — or refuses to rent to them at all. The complaint comes from former leasing agents at the StoneBridge at Bear Creek complex in Euless. They say Muslims were routinely denied apartments even when there were vacancies. “If somebody called over the phone inquiring about an apartment, we were told that if [...]

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30Mar
2009

Museum of Tolerance: Intolerant?

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by Osma Dossani flickr.com The Facts: The Simon Wiesenthal  Center, which has built the Museum  of Tolerance here in LA, has been issued the permit to build a Museum of  Tolerance in Jerusalem. There is some tension behind this because many believe that it is on a Muslim cemetery. This issue ought to be judged with knowledge, said Ran Boytner, an Israeli-born archaeology professor here at UCLA. After interviewing the opposing sides, namely the Museum of Tolerance and the Council [...]

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