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REPORT: $42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel The Rise Of Islamophobia In America

REPORT: $42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel The Rise Of Islamophobia In America

The report, titled “Fear Inc.: The Roots Of the Islamophobia Network In America,” lifts the veil behind the hate, follows the money, and identifies the names of foundations …

Who’s Behind The Movement To Ban Shariah Law?

Who’s Behind The Movement To Ban Shariah Law?

On Fresh Air, New York Times investigative reporter Andrea Elliott joins Terry Gross for a conversation about the state-level movement to ban Shariah law.

Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’?

Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’?

And the hatred expressed within right-wing movements for the college-educated elite, who created or at least did nothing to halt the financial debacle, is not misplaced. Our educated elite, wallowing in self-righteousness,…

2012: Exploiting Islamophobia to Win Big

2012: Exploiting Islamophobia to Win Big

In fact, anti-Muslim rage in today’s national discourse is populism’s low-hanging fruit, and many Republicans hungrily grabbed at it with both fists and were duly rewarded this campaign season.

Mother Jones: Muslimophobia: Election Roundup

Mother Jones: Muslimophobia: Election Roundup

The good news: Many anti-Muslim candidates did not get elected Tuesday. Now the bad news: Alas, several anti-Muslim candidates won—mostly in the South.

Obama tells Rev. Terry Jones to call off ‘International Burn-a-Koran Day’

Obama tells Rev. Terry Jones to call off ‘International Burn-a-Koran Day’

Even the White House’s usual political opponents agree with Obama. Sarah Palin has called the Koran burning “antithetical to American ideals,”

Pamela Geller: Israeli Secret Agent?

Pamela Geller: Israeli Secret Agent?

Geller goes on in her lecture to make herself out to be a martyr. She cries and whines about how people have called her a bigot and an Islamophobe and tells her audience “Truth is the new hate speech.”

Ground Zero for Free Speech

Ground Zero for Free Speech

The attempt by Gingrich and others to portray Park51 as part of a planned Islamic takeover of the United States is shameful and ridiculous. America is a secular democracy …

3 Reasons the “Ground Zero Mosque” Debate Makes No Sense

3 Reasons the “Ground Zero Mosque” Debate Makes No Sense

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.

Jon Stewart on Absurd Controversy Ginned Up Over Islamic Center: “WTF Is Wrong With You People???

Jon Stewart on Absurd Controversy Ginned Up Over Islamic Center: “WTF Is Wrong With You People???

Stewart, Emmy Award Winner, started his series of shows on Ground Zero mosque after the raising refusing within the biased media in the United States.

Politico: GOP takes harsher stance toward Islam

Politico: GOP takes harsher stance toward Islam

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..

TIME: The Moderate Imam Behind the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’

TIME: The Moderate Imam Behind the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’

Sarah Palin, in her now infamous tweet, asked to “refudiate” the mosque. Rauf is a Sufi, which is Islam’s most mystical and accommodating denomination.

Wahabi Imam to burn the Bible in Cairo!

Wahabi Imam to burn the Bible in Cairo!

The question is why didn’t the western and most influential mediacomment on this racist and discriminatory incident?

Geoffrey Dunn: Palin’s Bigoted Calls on Muslims to “Refudiate”

Geoffrey Dunn: Palin’s Bigoted Calls on Muslims to “Refudiate”

Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate