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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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21Sep
2010

A Case of Islamophobia in Orange County

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Has America become a country where you are assaulted because of a simple cloth worn around your head? Photo credit: Joshua Sudock, The Orange County Register

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