Month: March 2018

Boyd Benson joined Kansas Security Forces members because he fears Islam, but when members started to talk about killing one-year old Muslim babies  and raping the wives and daughter of their landlords, he quit: Accused Terrorists Were So Extreme They Scared Other Anti-Muslim Bigots (Huffington Post) “[M]any Muslims consider a top-down approach to manage Islam…

“Bolton’s appointment as national security adviser doesn’t require Senate confirmation,” but Pompeo and Haspel face scrutiny for their support of, and in her case involvement in, torture”: Bolton and Pompeo Might Unleash Trump on ‘Radical Islam (Politico) “Muslim Women’s Day is a call to action to… center Muslim women’s voices for the day, to empower…

The purpose of the law is to drag “Muslim businesses and even houses of worship could … into potential lawsuits, something that would certainly have a chilling effect on American Muslim commercial and civic life”: Andy’s Law Fails in Alabama, but the Anti-Muslim Legislation Has Passed in Seven States to Date (Southern Poverty Law Center)…

Hanna Luden from the center for information and documentation on Israel has joined Muslims and civil libertarians in condemning Geert Wilder’s latest venture into reviving Nazi-style propaganda in 21st century Europe: PVV Anti-Islam Campaign Video Sparks Outrage, Charges (NL Times) Because some fool thinks the Malaysian flag is an American flag desecrated with Islamic symbols,…

Police allege a plot to bomb “a mosque and an apartment complex that was home to Somali refugees” and also to kill “the apartment complex’s white owner to send a message to other landlords about renting to immigrants”: In Kansas, Militia ‘Crusaders’ to Stand Trial in Somali Muslim Bomb Plot (Al-Jazeera) The lawsuits allege that the…

Cheering Rex Tillerson’s exit are a coalition of neoconservatives, the “primitive right” of Hungarian fascist Sebastian Gorka, and the warmongering Foundation for Defense of Democracies back by Sheldon Adelson: The Political Forces Behind Rex Tillerson’s Firing (The American Conservative) An “anti-Muslim bigot in Congress or even leading the CIA” is bad enough, but nominating him to…

“Islamophobia … is not an organic regrettable outcome of bad Muslims doing bad things. It is something that is being deliberately created in the public, and … there is an entire industry dedicated to manufacturing fear”: Bigoted Election Campaigns, Not Terror Attacks, Drive Anti-Muslim Activity (The Intercept) By sending a journalist to prison for seven and…

“U.S. embassies are casting doubt on a central legal defense to the ban’s constitutionality: individualized waivers.” Of 8,406 visa applications from countries subject to the ban … [o]nly two applicants were granted waivers”: The Empty Promise of “Waivers” from Trump’s Muslim Ban (Just Security) “Broidy told Trump that he had … met with [Saudi] Crown Prince…

“Three Christians who converted to Islam in order to marry a Muslim are “fighting the case to renounce Islam … [on deciding] to return to Christianity upon divorcing or after the death of their spouse”: Sarawak Chief Minister Pledges to Amend State Law to Allow Converts to Renounce Islam (Straits Times) “[I]t was unclear how…