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Muslim group: Republican ‘Islamophobia machine’ encouraging violent attacks
Following an acid bomb being hurled at a Muslim school in the Chicago suburb of Lombard, a spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) told Raw Story that the number of attacks on American Muslims has escalated recently due in part to the Republican Party’s “Islamophobia machine” encouraging a tiny…
David Shuster slams conservative media for Muslim bashing
Current TV host David Shuster on Friday decried the Islamophobia propagated by conservative media outlets after a Muslim man, Rezwan Ferdaus, was arrested on charges of planning to fly explosive-packed, remote controlled airplanes into the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. “On some right wing talk radio shows and Internet blogs,…
Imam’s wife: Mosque opposition like ‘metastasized anti-Semitism’
Lower Manhattan mosque part of ‘Americanization’ of Islam, Daisy Khan says The wife of the imam behind the Cordoba House Muslim community center in Manhattan says the opposition to its construction goes “beyond Islamophobia,” likening it to a “metastasized anti-Semitism.” “We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized…
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