All posts tagged "Muslim"

An analyst on Tuesday flagged an "alarming" rise in attacks on Muslim Americans and the rising anti-Muslim rhetoric growing within the Republican Party.

The Bulwark's Joe Perticone called out Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), who has been "proudly anti-Muslim" and has made comments against Muslims, including this statement during a Newsmax interview last month: “I think mainstream Islam is a threat to the United States.”

Fine's comments represent a more significant shift among the GOP. ...

Former president Donald Trump is looking forward to bringing back what he calls the "beautiful" practice of banning Muslims from entering into the U.S., according to news reports.

Trump is telling those close to him that one of his priorities is to bring back his infamous Muslim ban, which was previously struck down and weakened by the courts during Trump's one term in office, according to Rolling Stone.

"President Joe Biden reversed the executive order in one of his first executive orders after taking office," the news outlet reports. "But the former president appears to be unsatisfied with merely reinstating the ban as it existed during his presidency. More recently, Trump has privately discussed adding more countries, including Afghanistan, to the list of majority-Muslim countries whose citizens he’s seeking to ban from the United States."...

Last October, every racist's favorite hero George Zimmerman retweeted a guy who applauded him for shooting Trayvon Martin, along with a photo of the unarmed boy's  dead body. While Zimmerman continued to gloat about the fact that he murdered Martin after profiling and following him in a gated community, calls to #BanGeorgeZimmerman began to gain some traction.

SARAJEVO — A year after last October's general election, Bosnia is still without a central government, with the inability of political leaders to agree on a future cabinet hampering the bid for EU integration.

MANILA (Reuters) - Gunmen in the Philippines kidnapped three people early Tuesday, including a naturalized American woman and her 14-year-old son, police said.

NEW YORK — A US Muslim woman sued Abercrombie & Fitch on Monday, accusing the clothing retailer of firing her for refusing to remove her religious head scarf, a Muslim advocacy group said.