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In Allah’s name, what is wrong with us Muslims? And why do we find it so hard to ask that question of ourselves? What will it take to break the heavily curtained window of denial? The beardy jihadists convicted in Birmingham last week were incompetents; hard to distinguish, for many Britons, from the hilarious boneheaded…
Laila Abdelaziz testify today before the House Judiciary Committee on behalf of Emerge, CAIR-FL, and the ILS to oppose HB 351. Watch the video to the end to see the ACLU’s opposition, and Rep. Schwartz call the bill out for its “Bigotry!”: HB 351 is legislation which harms our religious freedom and limits our ability to contract.…
Bengali Harlem: Author documents a lost history of immigration in America Editor’s note: CNN’s Moni Basu, a Bengali immigrant, was born in Kolkata, India. By Moni Basu, CNN (CNN) – In the next few weeks, Fatima Shaik, an African-American, Christian woman, will travel “home” from New York to Kolkata, India. It will be a journey…
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California reached a settlement with the County of Orange yesterday allowing for Muslim women to keep their religious headscarves on while in custody. That wasn’t the case back in 2006 when Lebanese Arabheimer Souhair Khatib and her husband pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor welfare crime. Ordered to perform hours of…
Nearly 30 years ago, the federal courts had to place limits on New York City police surveillance to protect law-abiding citizens who happened to be politically engaged on civil rights and other issues. Based on new court filings in a longstanding suit challenging police surveillance techniques, the courts may need to intervene to stop the…
byFahad ArmanFollow Recently, the Associated Press added a new word into their influential industry Stylebook. That word? “Islamist”. According to the AP Stylebook the definition of Islamist is – (A) supporter of government in accord with the laws of Islam. Those who view the Quran as a political model encompass a wide range of Muslims, from…
MICHIGAN — A local civil rights group has received a number of complaints over the growing concern about Muslim foster care children converting to different faiths, after being adopted by non-Muslim families. According to the Council on American Islamic Relations of Michigan, there are far more Muslim foster children in the system than certified…
Securing Religious Liberty A Muslim community handbook for opposing legislation that restricts religious freedom and threatens the U.S. Constitution. The challenge and the issue “Like other faith communities in the US and elsewhere, we see no inherent conflict between the normative values of Islam and the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.” –Fiqh Council of North…
COLCHESTER, Conn. (WTNH) — One person was critically injured after a one-vehicle crash on Route 2 in Colchester Tuesday morning. The accident occurred around 8 a.m. Officials said Roue Taha was traveling westbound on Route 2, near Exit 21 when Taha’s vehicle went off the north shoulder of the road. The vehicle traveled approximately 60…
Christopher Bail: US Media Coverage Aided Anti-Muslim Fringe Groups Post 9/11
Anti-Muslim fringe organizations became more mainstream and got funding after Sept. 11, 2001, in part because of U.S. news coverage, according to a study that appears in the December issue of the American Sociological Review. These groups dominated the mass media via displays of fear and anger. Christopher Bail is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at…
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