KATHERINE CONCEPCION / News Herald Writer News Herald - August 17, 2010 PANAMA CITY — A Congressional candidate told local high school and middle school students Tuesday that Islam’s plan is to destroy the American way of life. “I’m totally against it. If I had my way, it would pretty much be over my dead body,” [...]
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American Imams visit Auschwitz
By JTA Jerusalem Post - Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Eight Muslim American leaders who visited concentration camps and met with Holocaust survivors signed a statement condemning Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. The trip earlier this month, intended to teach the participants about the Holocaust, featured visits to Dachau and Auschwitz. “We stand united as Muslim American faith [...]
US Muslims concerned over Eid, 9/11 anniversary overlap
Agence France Presse. - Aug 13, 2010 NEW YORK (AFP) – US Muslim groups have urged law enforcement agencies to be on guard during Eid al-Fitr, the end-of-Ramadan holiday which this year coincides with the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, officials said Friday. A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles-based Muslim Public Affairs Council [...]
Video: Jon Stewart takes on New York Islamic center critics <
Palestinenote.com. - 11 August 2010 New York – Daily Show host John Stewart on Tuesday night once again took on the controversy surrounding Cordoba House, the Islamic community center planned near the former World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. Stewart first played a clip of a Fox News reporter noting that the center is actually [...]
NY approves burning twin towers bus ad
By ASSOCIATED PRESS Jerusalem Post – August 10, 2010 The New York City transit agency approved a bus advertisement Monday depicting a plane flying toward the World Trade Center’s towers as they burn along with a rendering of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero. The ad was paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, [...]
Opponents fight new mosques in U.S. heartland
USATODAY.com 08/10/2010 MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) — Muslims trying to build houses of worship in the nation’s heartland, far from the heated fight in New York over plans for a mosque near the World Trade Center site, are running into opponents even more hostile and aggressive. Foes of proposed mosques have deployed dogs to intimidate Muslims [...]
CAIR: Coalition Concerned That Anti-Islam Leader Trained FBI
Groups seek response from FBI Director Mueller on invitation to prominent Islamophobe PR Newswire Aug. 3 WASHINGTON – A coalition of Muslim, Sikh, Asian-American, and other civil liberties groups* today sent an open letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller seeking an explanation of why a leader of an anti-Islam hate group was recently invited to [...]
Tycoon plans €1m fund to fight French niqab ban
Businessman Rachid Nekkaz hopes to render new law useless by paying fines for women caught wearing veil in street Lizzy Davies in Paris guardian.co.uk – 14 July 2010 A French property tycoon enraged at his government’s plans to ban women from wearing the full veil in public has promised a fund of €1m (£830,000) to [...]
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Wish You Weren’t Here www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party In the segment, the Daily Show host highlights Fox News correspondents reporting on “outrage” over more mosques and Islamic centers being built across America’s heartland. Says one correspondent, “There’s a [...]
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