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The same people who brought us “terror babies,” “death panels,” the “Ground Zero Mosque,” “Islamo-fascism,” “the Axis of Evil” and other dime-a-dozen memes that turn viral overnight, are purposefully manufacturing fear of Muslims. Nathan Lean is the author of The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims (Pluto Press, $17.00) Muslims are everywhere. They’re hiding [...]
U.S. funded Israeli-linked security company pushes anti-Muslim ideology by Alex Kane Alex Kane, a freelance journalist based in New York City, blogs on Israel/Palestine and Islamophobia at alexbkane.wordpress.com, where this post originally appeared. Follow him on Twitter @alexbkane. Mondoweiss on March 10, 2011 As Representative Peter King’s hearings on “Muslim radicalization” refocus attention on Islamophobia, [...]
The Obama administration warns local officials that opposing the building of an Islamic center could violate the civil rights of its members. The construction site has already suffered arson damage. By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau Los Angeles Times October 19, 2010 Reporting from Washington — For the second time in two months, the [...]
By Michael Calderone Yahoo! News Network Thu Oct 14, 2010 “The View” co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar stormed off the set Thursday during a contentious interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. As the cast debated whether there should be a community center and mosque built in Lower Manhattan, O’Reilly declared that “Muslims killed [...]
How Islamophobic blogs manufactured a controversy by Steve Rendall and Alex Kane Published on Thursday, October 7, 2010 by Extra! How did a local story about a proposal to build an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan turn into a national controversy about whether a “Ground Zero Mosque” would be a slap in the face [...]
Andrew Reinbach Huffington Post – September 27, 2010 A town in upstate New York is trying to force a local Muslim religious community to dig up a small cemetery on its property and never bury anyone there again because it says it’s illegal. “What we would not want is an unauthorized cemetery,” says Bob McCarthy, [...]
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN The New York Times Published: September 21, 2010 BERLIN — As anti-immigrant sentiment continues to sweep across Europe, generating a right-wing populist wave from the shores of the Mediterranean to the chilly reaches of Scandinavia, there is growing concern that such politics could take root here, too, in the fertile ground of [...]
by Lawrence Davidson Lawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University. He is the author of numerous books, including Islamic Fundamentalism and America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood. Sabbah Report September 18, 2010 The Great Muslim Scare Now enter Pamela Geller, one of America’s up and coming, famous [...]
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