Last year, Obama and Mayor Michael Bloomberg tamped down the hysteria over “Ground Zero mosque” but they could not persuade aFlorida pastor from commanding national attention for weeks before burning a copy of the Qur’an.
Tennessee has become the latest state to join in the wave of anti-sharia crusade. Late last month, legislators in Tennessee introduced a radical bill that would make “material support” for Islamic law punishable by 15 years in prison.
Right-wing Islamophobes are now up in arms over the fact that Campbell’s Canada–the soup company–has a line of Halal-certified vegetarian soups.
Sharron Angle is just the latest politician to stir up anti-Muslim feelings. Reza Aslan on the wacky movement to ban Sharia law in the U.S.
The anti-Islam wing of the conservative movement is setting its sights on Campbell’s Canada’s now year-old decision to release a line of Halal-certified soups and broths.
“Kill the Ground Zero Mosque,” a spot released over the summer by the National Republican Trust PAC, features pictures of mosques and Muslim militants alongside lurid imagery from Sept. 11, including a person falling from the World Trade Center.
If the Obama administration is truly serious about reaching out to the Muslim world he has to go beyond symbolic action and translate that symbolism and usage of pretty words into tangible and concrete results.
American Muslim leaders urged members to remain calm if the pastor doesn’t back down from a threat that already has inflamed passions around the globe.
In a recent statement, media spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood Dr. Essam al-Erian described the scheduled “Quran burning” as a “barbaric act, reminiscent of the Inquisition” .
What that means is that they follow the spiritual teachings of Imam Hassan al-Banna, who taught his followers such virtues as understanding, perseverance, personal sacrifice, and service to the whole community.
In the days following 911 it was very popular to say that we couldn’t do anything differently in America or “the terrorists would win.” We can’t stop driving gas guzzling cars.
New York’s beleaguered Republicans, seeing an opening, have seized and driven the mosque issue, and Roth and other mainstream figures have worked to insulate it from more radical anti-Islamic voices..
In the past, Wilders’ extremism has been condemned by conservatives such as Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, and even Glenn Beck, who called Wilders “fascist.”
I’m pleased that Fareed Zakariah recently returned a First Amendment award the ADL gave him in 2005 to protest your decision. I’d be more pleased if the ADL were to reconsider its position and admit that it was wrong in this case.
For a while America seemed less vulnerable than Europe to home-grown jihadism. The Pew Research Centre reported three years ago that most Muslim Americans were “largely assimilated, happy with their lives…
What I don’t understand is why that makes some Jewish organizations think they have anything to do with an Islamic cultural center’s construction in downtown Manhattan
The question is why didn’t the western and most influential mediacomment on this racist and discriminatory incident?
28 million copies of a DVD of the film “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” have been distributed free of cost in newspapers across the country. The film was first released a few years ago and has been shown around the country.
There is no “global network” for the Muslim Brotherhood, but rather coordination among the different MB chapters in various countries, in which the MB has formal presence or representation, which clearly does not apply to the U.S.
“Grateful to live in a country where bankers who rape our entire economy receive 100s of billion of dollars in thanks while humanitarians who feed starving children are sent to jail.”
Emerson’s Paranoiac Approach Toward the Muslim Brotherhood
This who so called ‘expert’ is trying his best to fight the Muslim minority in the US, and this won’t lead to the good of the United States in the near future.