Tag: politics

CAR: “There’s Not One Single Muslim Left In Bocaranga”

By Médecins Sans Frontières / Reliefweb.int Djamilou from Central African Republic has been working as a logistician in Niger. Djamilou came to Paris between assignments in Africa for MSF. He told us his story. He spoke of the violence and the plight of his family scattered among three different countries after fleeing from Central Africa…. Read More ›

The Curious Islamophobic Politics Of Dem Congressmember Tulsi Gabbard

By Zaid Jilani / AlterNet “Meet the Democrat Who’s Not Afraid to Criticize President Obama on ISIS,”intones a recent ABC News headline. The story describes remarks by Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D), who has for the past month been all over the media slamming Obama’s refusal to directly associate ISIS and other terrorists with the… Read More ›

7 Anti-Muslim Incidents That Happened Since The Chapel Hill Murders

By Imraan Siddiqi / Stop Islamophobia Now In 2012, the American Muslim community experienced one of the biggest upticks of violence and harassment that the community has ever seen. Eleven years removed from 9/11, there was a seemingly unexplainable rash of attacks against mosques, including arson, vandalism and even shots being fired at different Islamic… Read More ›

The Islamophobia Network: Robert Spencer

Robert Spencer is co-founder of Stop Islamization of America, or SIOA, and director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. As a subsidiary of the Freedom Center, Jihad Watch’s primary purpose is to conduct research “regarding the current state of radical jihad theology and ideology.” Spencer’s activities are funded in large part… Read More ›

Do You Think Islamists Are The Only Religious Terrorists? Meet Some Famous Killers For Christ

David Ferguson – RawStory.com   President Barack Obama raised hackles on the Christian right this week during his address to the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast. In the wake of the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris by Islamic extremists and the atrocities committed on video by ISIS, Obama urged Christians not to get… Read More ›

Despite Wingnut Freak-out, Obama Is Right: Christian Violence Is Just as Bad as Muslim Violence?

By Zaid Jilani – Alternet.org This week, President Obama met with Muslim leaders in a private political meeting for the first time in his six-year presidency. The meeting set off predicatable angry reactions from the political right, with Fox News’ Sean Hannity even saying he wished Obama had demanded that the leaders publicly denounce radical Islam…. Read More ›

Texas Representative Tells Staff To Ask Visiting Muslims To Pledge Allegiance

Newbie Texas Rep. Molly White pulled a quill from her quiver of insanity today—she’s left some pretty open-hearted instructions to her staff on how to deal with Muslims visiting her office in Austin for Texas Muslim Capitol Day: “I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my office with instructions to staff… Read More ›

Four Absurd & Dangerous Lies Fox News Told About Muslims This Week

By Zaid Jilani – AlterNet.org Fox News has reached new depths of paranoia and outright hate in its coverage of the aftermath of the Paris shootings. This week, it was the object of international satire and outrage following a string of lies told about Muslims and Europe. Here are four of the worst, most glaring examples:… Read More ›

Bobby Jindal Believes That Muslims Have Established ‘No-Go Zones’ In Europe

Conservative politicians seem eager to latch on to this new theory that Muslim communities have established “no-go” zones in Europe in which each nation’s laws do not apply and in which non-Muslims cannot go. While it sounds considerably akin to previous deeply prejudiced “theories” about individual groups (Gypsies, Jews, and so forth) and their secret… Read More ›

A Moroccan Man Murdered In ‘Islamophobic’ Attack In France

Sad! A Moroccan man was murdered in his home front of his family and more than 50 mosques have been attacked in France since January 6th. Why aren’t police protecting the Muslim community? You know what is the most frustrating of all this, if the killer was Muslim, all Muslims are evil terrorists and their religion… Read More ›

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