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…
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.”
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…
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…
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…
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…