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The Real Reason Big Brother’s Still Spying on New York City’s Muslims
by Seth Freed Wessler on August 29 2012, 9:34AM
A program that was meant to make New York City “safer” from would-be terrorists has proven to be an abysmal failure. But city officials aren’t budging.
Topics: Criminal Justice, NYPD Spying, National Security
NYPD Also Spying on New Jersey Muslims for the Past 7-Years
by Jorge Rivas on February 24 2012, 6:15PM
The New York Police Department has secretly been conducting surveillance on Muslims in New Jersey and they have done it with the permission of the governor’s office — granted in 2005 by former Gov. Richard Codey.
Topics: National Security, /NOW Blog
Young Muslim Designer Puts Her Fashions on New York Runways
by Jorge Rivas on November 4 2011, 12:21PM
Nailah Lymus takes a unique approach to faith and fashion.
Topics: Arts & Culture
FBI Uses Maps to Track Muslims and Fight Fake Crime
by Jamilah King on October 25 2011, 10:00AM
Back in 2004, FBI Special Agent Bill Shute set out to prove a point. A self-described “visual learner,” Shute thought that if you took arrest data from court records and local police and dumped it into Microsoft mapping software, you…
Topics: National Security
Lawsuit: Hertz Suspended 34 Somali Muslims for Praying at Work
by Jorge Rivas on October 10 2011, 12:59PM
The Muslim workers who drove airport shuttles for Hertz at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were suspended Friday.
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NYPD Has Been Spying on Muslims, Even When No Crime Is Involved
by Jorge Rivas on August 25 2011, 4:36AM
In a bombshell investigation, the AP uncovers an NYPD spying ring that would put the CIA and FBI to shame.
Topics: Criminal Justice
How Peter King Helps Push Dangerous Myths About ‘Muslim Radicals’
by Shani O. Hilton on July 26 2011, 9:50AM
While the New York Republican begins another round of Muslim scapegoating, the attacks in Oslo show how easy it is for the American media to jump to conclusions.
Topics: National Security
France’s Anti-Muslim Burqa Ban Goes Into Effect
by Asraa Mustufa on April 12 2011, 1:11PM
The move comes as several European countries and the United States use so-called “secular” traditions to scapegoat religious minorities.
Topics: Global Affairs
Who’s Behind the GOP’s Anti-Sharia Law Crusade? A White Supremacist
by Jamilah King on March 3 2011, 1:32PM
David Yerushalmi doesn’t just hate Muslims. He hates everyone who’s not white.
Topics: Politics
Nationwide SB 1070 for Muslims: On the Books Since 2002
by Channing Kennedy on January 31 2011, 5:45PM
Like Arizona’s infamous Latino-targeting SB 1070, NSEERS is less a law than a reason to make arrests.
Topics: Immigration
In France and America, Bigotry Knows No Borders
by Michelle Chen on September 15 2010, 10:00AM
The French may not think much of Americans, but both countries’ governments share a singular antipathy for “outsiders.”
Topics: Global Affairs
On the Way Out, Washington Tramples on Iraqi Women
by Michelle Chen on September 8 2010, 10:00AM
Iraqi women are left holding up half the sky in the midst of a ravaged political and economic landscape.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, Global Affairs, On Gender
GOP Sen. Hatch: Religious Freedom “Made This Country Great”
by Jamilah King on August 31 2010, 5:21PM
The Utah lawmaker notes that Muslims were killed on 9/11, too.
Topics: Mosque Mania
Michigan Football Team Observes Ramadan, Puts NYC to Shame
by Naima Ramos-Chapman on August 16 2010, 5:45PM
For high schoolers, observing the holy month is about being practical, not overtly political.
Topics: Schools & Youth
Obama’s “Ground Zero Mosque” Backtrack
by Julianne Hing on August 16 2010, 1:02PM
Says his position is about upholding the Constitution, not politics.
Topics: Mosque Mania, National Security
Tempers Explode Over Ground Zero Islamic Center
by Michelle Chen on July 15 2010, 11:01AM
How did an otherwise mundane hearing of the Landmarks Preservation Commission disintegrate into a Muslim-bashing fest?
Topics: Mosque Mania
Today in Anti-Muslim Party Politics: Dutch Edition
by Michelle Chen on June 10 2010, 12:15PM
With the Tea Party making inroads in primaries across the country, you might think the rabid outbursts and vapid sloganeering are a peculiarly American phenomenon. But in fact, Thursday’s elections in the Netherlands show that the U.S. has no monopoly…
Topics: Global Affairs, Immigration
Under Political Siege, Muslim Americans Confront America’s Ugly Side
by Michelle Chen on June 7 2010, 12:02PM
Besieged by media attacks and riven by internal conflicts, Muslim American communities have been wrestling with an identity crisis for years now. The latest slew of “homegrown terrorism” allegations has prompted the Obama administration to show that it’s at least…
Topics: Immigration, National Security, Politics
Muslim Community Center Rumbles Ground Zero in NYC
by Michelle Chen on May 25 2010, 8:50AM
Nearly nine years after the Twin Towers collapsed, Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan is still smoldering. The public response to a proposal to build an Islamic center near the site has reignited the embers of anti-Muslim animosity. The right-wing blogosphere…
Topics: Mosque Mania
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