By Mohammed Ayoob, Special to CNN
Fri February 3, 2012
Editor’s note: Mohammed Ayoob is University Distinguished Professor of International Relations at Michigan State University and adjunct scholar at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
Continue reading ‘Is Europe setting up clash between Muslims and the West?’
By Chris Hawley
The Associated Press / February 4, 2012
NEW YORK—Thirty-three civil rights groups from around the country complained to the New York attorney general Friday about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based on their religion.
Continue reading ‘Muslims to NY attorney general: Investigate NYPD’
By Juan Ortega, Sun Sentinel
February 2, 2012
Continue reading ‘Muslim woman in Boca Raton accuses Chevron of religious discrimination’
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 24, 2012
RYE, N.Y. (AP) — Fifteen Muslims won conditional dismissals on Tuesday of charges stemming from an amusement park disturbance that started when women were told they could not wear religious headscarves on some rides.
A Rye Town Court judge told the defendants that their cases would be dropped if they stayed out of trouble for two months. Most had been charged only with disorderly conduct, but the charges ranged up to second-degree assault.
Continue reading ‘Charges Against 15 Muslims Dismissed in Amusement Park Dispute’
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGvLjdxnDbY&noredirect=1
January 26, 2012
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Muslim groups are calling for New York’s police commissioner to step down because of his appearance in a film they say puts their religion and its adherents in a bad light.
About 20 activists held a news conference on the steps of City Hall on Thursday and criticized Ray Kelly for giving an interview to the producers of the movie “The Third Jihad.”
Continue reading ‘Muslims call for NYPD chief to resign over movie’
By MICHAEL POWELL, New York Times
Published: January 23, 2012
Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over the White House.
Continue reading ‘In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims’
January 22, 2012
BBC NEWS
Sri Lanka has reportedly ordered 161 foreign Muslim preachers to leave the country for flouting visa regulations.
A senior immigration official was quoted as saying that the clerics had no right to preach in mosques because they had arrived on tourist visas.
Continue reading ‘Sri Lanka ‘expels 161 foreign Muslim preachers’’
By Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Published: Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2012 — GOP presidential hopeful claims concept of equality ‘doesn’t come from Islam,’ but from ‘the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’
Continue reading ‘CAIR to Santorum: Christians, Jews, Muslims Worship the Same God’
By Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert
January 17, 2012
Turkey’s foreign ministry condemned Texas Gov. Rick Perry Tuesday for saying that Turkey was a “country that is being ruled by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists.”
Perry made the statement during a spirited debated between Republican presidential candidates in South Carolina Monday night.
By Joy Lin, Published January 18, 2012 | FoxNews.com
The largest Muslim civil liberties group in the United States on Wednesday condemned Newt Gingrich for saying he would only hire Muslims to his administration if they renounced the use of Islam’s Shariah law as a tool for U.S. government.
Continue reading ‘Group blasts Gingrich for limiting hires to Muslims who renounce Shariah law’
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns6wBrLTI28
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
CAIRO – Feeling the pinch of growing hostility in their society, US Muslims are complaining of the negative media portrayal of their faith, spreading misconceptions about the religious minority and demonizing their life style, The Breeze newspaper reported on Tuesday, January 17.
Minister of Islamic Affairs Dr Abdul Majeed Abdul Bari has consulted with President Mohamed Nasheed on allegations that the government has cooperated with Christian missionaries in an effort “to wipe out Islam”.
Mon, Jan 16th, 2012
Republican presidential candidate, Texas Governor Rick Perry, has defended US Marines who were caught on video urinating on dead Taliban fighters. Mr Perry told CNN on the weekend that the urination incident was a case of “kids being kids.”
He told the interviewer: “Obviously 18, 19-year-old kids make stupid mistakes all too often and that’s what’s occurred here. These kids made a mistake, there’s not any doubt about it. They shouldn’t have done it, it’s bad, but to call it a criminal act, I think is over the top.”
Continue reading ‘Urinating Marines were like fun-loving kids: Perry’
The Huffington Post Timothy Stenovec First Posted: 1/12/12
Pamela Geller, who has been referred to as the “queen of the Muslim bashers,” is not doing anything to shed that title.
OnIslam & News Agencies
Saturday, 14 January 2012
BANGALORE – A recent cooperation between India’s ruling Congress government and Israel, including opening an Israeli embassy in Bangalore, is sending shockwaves across the country’s Muslim political and religious groups who denounced the growing ties as making “India’s stand on Palestine imbroglio a farce.”
Sean Michaels
guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 January 2012 07.50 EST
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A notoriously “anti-Islamic” band has been nominated for Norway’s top metal prize. Taake are one of six nominees for a prestigious Spellemann award, despite a song that declares: “To hell with Muhammad and the Muhammadans!”
Continue reading ‘‘Anti-Islamic’ band nominated for Norway’s top music prize’
Jillian Rayfield-January 10, 2012
A California man was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic and vandalizing a mosque.
Continue reading ‘Madera man gets five years in prison for arson, vandalism’
