Posted: 03/30/11
Despite repeated requests to dismiss the case, the trial of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who is charged with inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims, will go ahead.
Archive for March, 2011
By SCOTT WONG | 3/29/11 11:33 AM
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said it wasn’t a response to Republican Rep. Peter King’s comments at a congressional hearing this month on post-Sept. 11 Islamic radicalization and terrorism — but it sure seemed like it.
First Posted: 03/29/11 03:02 PM
(Reuters) – American Muslims face a rising tide of religious discrimination in U.S. communities, workplaces and schools nearly a decade after the September 11 attacks, a congressional committee heard on Tuesday.
Continue reading ‘Muslim Discrimination Cases Disproportionately High In U.S.’
Written by Casey Gane-McCalla on March 27, 2011 6:16 pm
NEW YORK-Thursday I had the privilege to watch CNN’s new “Muslim In America” documentary, “Unwelcome: The Muslims Next Door.” The hour long documentary covers the protests of a proposed Mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn by local residents. The story did not receive as much coverage as the infamous proposed “Ground Zero” Mosque, but was an equally interesting and somewhat entertaining look at a piece of America. One that shows a side of America that I do not not see in New York, not the Muslims, who wanted to build the Mosque but the right wing, anti-Muslim religious fanatics who opposed them.
Continue reading ‘CNN’s “Unwelcome: Muslims Next Door” The Hate That Hate Produced’
By JPOST.COM STAFF
03/26/2011 07:00
National Director Foxman says page misleadingly calls for peaceful demonstrations; regrets Facebook has not yet taken down page.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has “reached out to Facebook” to remove a “cause” page entitled “Third Palestinian Intifada,” saying the page constitutes “an appaling abuse of technology to promote terrorist violence.” According to an official statement, the ADL’s request has not been met.
Continue reading ‘ADL urges Facebook to remove ‘Third Intifada’ page’
By Matthew Daneman, USA TODAY
March 24, 2011
ITHACA, N.Y. — When Jainal Bhuiyan attended Cornell University, he and his fellow Muslim students were mentored and led in religious prayers by a collection of Muslim professors, graduate students and staff.
Continue reading ‘More U.S. colleges adding Muslim chaplains’
By DEBORAH SONTAG; Ian Fisher contributed reporting from Baghdad for this article
Published: May 27, 2004
In western Broward County, where Lt. Col. Allen B. West, 43, is preparing to start life over as a high school social studies teacher, the grass is green, the air is moist and the pressure is barometric. Iraq seems very far away, as does the night last August when Colonel West used his gun to coerce an Iraqi police officer during an interrogation.
Posted by Lesley Clark on March 23, 2011 | Permalink
Democrats today began running newspaper ads, sending emails and making phone calls targeting Rep. Allen West and Republican plans for Social Security and Medicare.
PRESS RELEASE
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced today that he will hold the first-ever Congressional hearing on the civil rights of American Muslims on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The hearing will be the first hearing before the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Senator Durbin is the Subcommittee’s Chairman. “Our Constitution protects the free exercise of religion for all Americans,” Durbin said. “During the course of our history, many religions have faced intolerance. It is important for our generation to renew our founding charter’s commitment to religious diversity and to protect the liberties guaranteed by our Bill of Rights.”
The hearing is in response to the spike in anti-Muslim bigotry in the last year including Quran burnings, restrictions on mosque construction, hate crimes, hate speech, and other forms of discrimination. Next week’s hearing will consider measures to protect the civil rights of American Muslims.
A distinguished panel of witnesses will testify including Muslim civil rights leader Farhana Khera; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick; Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez, the Obama Administration’s top civil rights official; and former Assistant Attorney General Alex Acosta, the Bush Administration’s top civil rights official.
The Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights was formed by merging the Constitution Subcommittee and the Human Rights and the Law Subcommittee, which Durbin previously chaired. The Subcommittee has jurisdiction over all constitutional issues, and all legislation and policy related to civil rights, civil liberties and human rights. The Ranking Member of the Subcommittee is Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The hearing will be held at 10:00 a.m. ET in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Continue reading ‘DURBIN TO CHAIR FIRST-EVER HEARING ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF AMERICAN MUSLIMS’
Published 04:10 a.m., Wednesday, March 23, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin has announced plans to hold congressional hearings on the civil rights of American Muslims.
Continue reading ‘Sen. Dick Durbin to look into Muslim civil rights’
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Rohan Goodlett is neighbor of first victim
by Terri Hogan and Nesa Nourmohammadi | Staff Writers
Montgomery police charged 35-year-old Rohan J. Goodlett of the 19500 block of Olney Mill Road in Olney with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two men in that community.
Continue reading ‘Police charge Olney man with two counts of first-degree murder in shootings’
March 23, 2011
More than 500 people gathered in the small California community of Villa Park to support freedom of religion in America.
Organizers of this Stop the Hate rally say it’s in response to a number of recent examples of hate speech in Southern California.
Demonstrators say they chose Villa Park because of comments Councilwoman Deborah Pauly gave at a rally during an Islamic Circle of North America fund-raiser back in February.
Continue reading ‘Californians protest acts of hate speech against Muslims’
Published: March. 23, 2011 at 1:48 AM
WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) — Critics of a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit on behalf of a Muslim teacher in Illinois say it is politically motivated.
By Rudi Keller Columbia Daily Tribune
Thursday, March 17, 2011
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JEFFERSON CITY — Shariah, or Islamic law, is like an infection that could quickly spread and undermine Missouri’s judicial system, and a proposed state constitutional amendment is the way to stop it, the bill’s sponsor told a House committee yesterday.
Continue reading ‘Shariah likened to polio Representative: Bill is a vaccine.’
By Robert J. Hawkins
Originally published March 16, 2011 at 6:13 p.m., updated March 16, 2011
A San Diego Muslim woman wearing a headscarf who was removed from a Southwest Airlines plane at Lindbergh Field on Sunday has received several apologies from the airline and a voucher good for a free flight “as a gesture of goodwill.”
Continue reading ‘Woman denied flight cites anti-Muslim bias’
A Palestinian Bedouin sits amid desks and equipment from a classroom destroyed by Israeli troops in a Bedouin camp located in the West Bank village of Dakeka, near Hebron, Jan. 12, 2011. In all, 17 structures providing shelter to some 300 Bedouins were destroyed. (AFP photo/Hazem Bader)
Continue reading ‘The Big Lie: Israel’s Concern for “Security”’
