In a March 2015 TEDtalk, Trevor Aaronson revealed how the FBI manipulates mentally ill and poor Muslim-Americans to set up terrorist attacks…
- Trevor Aaronson: How This FBI Strategy Is Actually Creating US-Based Terrorists (TEDTalk)
- The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist (Intercept)
…And another Muslim man was recently charged by FBI with conspiracy and transportation firearms with the intent to commit a felony:
- Man Charged in Shootout at Anti-Islam Event Wanted to Attack Super Bowl: Prosecutors (Huffington Post)
What does it mean to be a Muslim in America today, with anti-islam rallies and an increase in hate crimes? Here answered by Linda Sarsour:
- Why This Has Been the Worst Year for Muslim-Americans Since 9/11 (Washington Post)
In Florida, a teenage “girl said she has been verbally and physically assaulted because she wears a hijab, or head scarf, to school” …
… while in Iran, “[o]ne Conservative analyst went on a website to suggest that if a women does not wear the hijab then if a men has sex with her against her will she cannot call it rape’:
- Iranian Women Are Taking to Social Media to Declare Freedom from Hijab (Christian Science Monitor)
Islamic Circle of North America aims to spread the peaceful message of Islam by billboards reading “Kindness is a mark of faith,” and “Muhammad believed in peace, social justice, women’s rights” …
- Promoting a Gentler Vision of Islam With ‘Discover Muhammad’ Billboards (Huffington Post)
… “I wanted to protect America and fight the ‘bad’ Muslims…. [Yet, i]t was Islam and not Christianity that re-opened my heart and mind to God. Witnessing the sincerity and dedication Muslims had for other human beings enriched my spirituality in a way that I did not think was possible”:
- From Catholicism to Atheism to Islam And Back to Catholicism (Huffington Post)
British Muslim group argues that the government has to engage with the Muslim community in order to combat radicalization:
