Wednesday Democrats challenged Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) second Muslim radicalization hearing, a hearing that many find to be nothing but thinly veiled religious discrimination and bigotry, and a betrayal of American values of religious freedom and liberty.
Representative Laura Richardson (D-CA) spoke for many Democrats at Wednesday’s hearing by noting that King’s obsession with Islamic [...]
A Muslim woman said Wednesday that she wants a Southwest Airlines crew disciplined for removing her from a flight for wearing a headscarf.
Irum Abbasi, 31, told reporters at a news conference outside San Diego’s airport that she was forced off a San Jose-bound flight in San Diego on Sunday because a flight attendant found [...]
To paraphrase Mark Twain, what gets Republican presidential hopefuls in trouble is not what they don’t know about Islam, but what they know that just ain’t so.
Mike Huckabee’s recent comments are but one example of a politician who speaks with authority and discloses how little he knows about the diversity within Islam. [...]
According to a new poll, a slim majority – 56 percent – of Americans support upcoming congressional hearings into alleged extremism in the U.S. Muslim community. However, nearly three-quarters – 72 percent – think Congress should not look for religious extremism only among American Muslims.
These hearings on “the radicalization of the American Muslim [...]
It is a nightmare for an entire religious tradition to be put on the stand as a collective for the actions of an extreme few. It is worse still when the extreme few are such a miniscule fraction of the population.
In spite of mounting evidence that Muslim Americans are excelling at collaboration with American [...]
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