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, [...]
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Justice Department says opposing Tennessee mosque could be a crime
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 [...]
Video: Goldberg, Behar walk off ‘View’ set during O’Reilly interview
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 [...]
Tiny Upstate New York Town Wants Local Muslims to Dig Up Their Cemetery
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, [...]
Right-Wing Sentiment, Ready to Burst Its Dam
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 [...]
America’s True Believers and the Great Muslim Scare
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 [...]
Five myths about mosques in America
By Edward E. Curtis IV The Washington Post – August 29, 2010 In addition to spawning passionate debates in the public, the news media and the political class, the proposal to build a Muslim community center near Ground Zero in New York has revealed widespread misconceptions about the practice of Islam in this country — and the [...]
Mark Steel: If anyone is fanatic it’s Sarah Palin
How far away is it permissible to be a Muslim? Maybe there should be special guidelines – for example, three blocks before you can whistle anything by Cat Stevens Independent Wednesday, 25 August 2010 To give yourself a stressful and futile day, try telling people there are no plans to build a mosque at Ground [...]
Israel and the anti-Muslim blow-up
By MJ Rosenberg MJ Rosenberg is a Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network. The above article first appeared in Foreign Policy Matters, a part of the Media Matters Action Network. Al Jazeera - Thursday, August 19, 2010 I don’t know why I am at all surprised that the American Right – including [...]
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