More Islamophobic Incidents
Yep, several more recent and largely unremarked incidents of hate-fueled vandalism and aggression against Muslims and their sites of worship. In suburban Chicago, 51-year-old David Conrad has been...
View ArticleRepublican Islamophobia clearly increasing hate crime incidents against Muslims.
The 9th CommandmentThou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour Our republican/conservative neighbors, many claiming to be such pious Christian, have been failing miserably with regards to...
View ArticleFear of Muslims going over the top
Stand back...cool down...get rational...and let's put our concerns about Islam into perspective.
View Article"I don't want anybody to persecute any religion including Islam, but...
On NPR this morning there was a piece about Tennessee's Republican Governor, Bill Haslam, who hired a Muslim woman to his staff and has received criticism from some of his constituents for doing so,...
View Article"He's a Muslim" is an attempt to subvert the First Amendment and Article Six...
A lot of people believe that the smears about President Obama being a radical Muslim are rooted in badly veiled racism. I would argue, though, that it's rooted in something equally insidious. To my...
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Pamela Geller's Blog Solicited Funds For anti-Muhammad Film
[image, right: Joseph Nassralla Abdelmasih, whose nonprofit Media For Christ produced [see 1, 2, 3] the inflammatory anti-Muhammad video trailer "Innocence of the Muslims", and anti-Islamic activist...
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Loose lips sink ships
In 1941 and 1942, the Allies were losing hundreds of ships and millions of tons of cargo to German U-boats in the North Atlantic. With England at risk of starvation, the United States faced the real...
View ArticleIslam, Violence, and the West: It's not the Video, Stupid
Originally posted on the Columbia University Press blogIt may be tempting to watch the unrest unfolding in parts of the Muslim world and wonder what real harm could there be in a cheesy “desert saga,”...
View ArticleStirring the pot: Huckabee releases Islamophobic song
Honestly, can't you just hear them gleefully gearing up for a war between the West and Islam?The latest entry?A song posted on Mike Huckabee's website, a "parody" done to the tune of Billy Joel's "We...
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Fundaloons bring anti-Islamic posters to NYC Subways
Apparently it was not stupid enough to incite a riot so Embassy staff are murdered by angry mobs of outraged Muslims. A similar group will bring their insults to the nice safe uncrowded environs of the...
View ArticleNouman Ali Khan On What The Quran Says On Defaming Muhammed
Juan Cole on his website presents a video by Nouman Ali Khan in which he says the Qur'an tells Muslims not to react violently when someone attacks or defames the Prophet Mohammed.
View ArticleMuslim Peace - The News Story You Aren't Getting
Perhaps 30,000 citizens of Benghazi marched, peacefully, through the streets today. Their demands? A civil society.It's on Al-Jazeera, but not on FOX, MSNBC, CNN, or even the BBC. Surely this mass...
View ArticleFrom Film to Protests: the Publicization of "Innocence of Muslims" in Egypt
Quite a bit of digital ink has been spilt concerning the production of the film and trailer known, at varied points in its history, as Desert Warrior(s) / Innocence of B[i]n Laden / Innocence of...
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As Yom Kippur approaches - Speak out against Pamela Gellers Bigoted Ad
Cross-Posted at The Progressive Zionist.So as the day winds out and it is time for me to prepare for Yom Kippur, I want to use this time prior to my reflection to speak out against what I consider...
View Articlea Muslim American meets Paul Ryan
Last week, I met Paul Ryan at an apple farm.My conversation with him was pretty brief:I was wearing my traditional topi headcap and I have a fair amount of beard on me, so it was rather obvious that I...
View ArticleRomney/Ryan Foreign Policy? "Lewis Doctrine" Redux
"Lewis Doctrine," you're likely asking? "What the hell is that?" I'm referring, of course, to the neoconservative's court-historian, Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at...
View ArticleWhy should Muslim Americans vote for President Obama? 10 reasons to get out...
(Disclosure: I am the Editor of MuslimsForObama.com)As a supporter of Barack Obama, I have laid out my own personal reasons for supporting Barack Obama. But some Muslim Americans are not convinced,...
View ArticleCongratulations Republicans! No really
This is not snark. There really is something to congratulate Republicans about today. They ran a historic ticket, something that has never been seen in the US before from a major party.For the first...
View ArticleMan denied service at Louisiana Subway for offense of being Muslim
Well, this is certainly an ugly story.A retired 63-year-old U.S. citizen of South Asian heritage who lives in New Orleans reported to CAIR that on November 21, 2012, he and his wife stopped at the...
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Racist Pamela Geller at it Again
Cross Posted at The Progressive ZionistFirst it was calling Muslims and Arabs "Savages" and during that time I got push back from the lunatic fringe and racist droolers who said accused me of racism...
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