Tag: Bigotry

Liverpool FC Fans Reject Anti-Muslim Bigotry

  The Liverpool Echo and Daily Mirror report on the challenge by supporters of Liverpool Football Club to a fan who posted a picture of two Muslims praying at Anfield during half time with the hashtag #disgrace. Stephen Dodd posted the picture taken at Liverpool’s match against Blackburn Rovers on Sunday on his twitter account… Read More ›

Prosecutor Denounces Wife Over ‘Do Not Trust Muzlims No Matter What’ Facebook Post

DTT: ‘She sounds like a bigot. He sounds like someone who wants to keep his job’. By David Edwards / RawStory   Washington state prosecutor insisted this week this his wife’s racist views on Muslims would have no impact on how he handled his cases. In a series of recent Facebook posts, the wife of Spokane… Read More ›

France & England Teach America How To Take Down Fox

Ever since October 7, 1996, American journalism has been slowly dragged down into the highly partisan, opinion based, no need to fact check, false equivalency, lowest common denominator, racist swamp that is Fox “News.” Americans have been subjected to almost two decades of their lies, and as Leonard Pitts Jr. suggests in his blog “Why… Read More ›

Council Worker Suspended Over ‘Kick Islam Out Of Britain’ Facebook Post

By Jennifer Williams – ManchesterEveningNews.co.uk   A town hall worker has been suspended after posting an Islamophobic comment on Facebook. Dave Balderstone, 46, replied to a British National Party post with the message: ‘Kick Islam out of Britain – we need our country back.’ Manchester council bosses took action last week after a member of the public… Read More ›

Anti-Islam – Anti-Muslim Group’s Hateful Bus Ads Covered Up By Signs Featuring Muslim Superhero

By Travis Gettys – Rawstory.com   Anti-Muslim bus advertisements in San Francisco are being covered up by anti-bigotry messages featuring a Muslim comic book superhero. The original advertisements, placed on the sides of MUNI buses by blogger Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative, compare Muslims to Nazis and claim the Koran orders followers to hate… Read More ›

“American Sniper” Spawns Death Threats Against Arabs & Muslims

By Rania Khalek – ElectronicIntifada.net Following the release of the film American Sniper in theaters across the US, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has warned of a “significant rise in violent hate rhetoric targeting the Arab and Muslim-American communities.” The ADC believes the threats “are directly linked to the negative media coverage and hateful propaganda… Read More ›

Journalist: Thanks Don Lemon For Making Me Famous With Racist Dumb-Ass Question

Arsalan Iftikhar is a Muslim civil rights attorney as well as senior editor over at The Islamic Monthly. He has penned a piece over at the monthly that’s worth a read. In it he talks about his recent television interview on CNN with Don Lemon. The interview where he asked: “Again in August, 16 percent… Read More ›