by Amy Levin and Abby Ohlheiser
Lately media outlets have been telling us what Americans believe, from how much we think we should be taxed, to how much we like Muslims. Even how (much) we believe in God. What Pew or Gallup haven’t capitalized on yet is Americans’ obsession with terrorism. How many [...]
First in a series on American Muslims. Today: Ten years after the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Muslims search for a way to reconcile their American and Islamic identities.
Hungry to be just one of the guys after immigrating to Texas, Palestinian Fawaz Ismail asked everybody to call him “Tony.” The nickname put people at ease [...]
A Muslim woman wearing a hijab (scarf) was recently kicked off of a Southwest flight because someone thought she said, “It’s a go!” (implying the terrorist attack is on), when all she said was, “I’ve gota go.” Anti-Muslim protesters in Yorba Linda, California ranted and raved at Muslim families who were merely participating in a [...]
Today marks the beginning of US Representative Peter King’s hearings about the radicalization of Muslims Americans, which have cast him into the middle of a controversy regarding the true nature and intentions of his hearings. Regardless of his intentions, however, valuable lessons can be learned by bringing light to this subject, as Muslims and non-Muslims [...]
There are all sorts of reasons to oppose Rep. Peter King’s hearings Thursday on “the radicalization of Islam in America,” but the most powerful one is the fact that they are more likely to foment radicalization than undercut it.
The civil libertarian argument — something Republicans like King used to care about — is, of [...]
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