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Muslim-American Comedians Want to Give Americans a Big Muslim Hug with this Movie [Video]
by Jorge Rivas on April 18 2012, 4:48PM
The Muslims are Coming! is a feature documentary film that follows a group of Muslim-American comedians as they go on a tour of Middle America, perform shows, and meet folks who have never met a Muslim before!
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog
Associated Press Wins Pulitzer for Reporting on NYPD’s Spying on Muslim Neighborhoods
by Jorge Rivas on April 16 2012, 3:23PM
The Associated Press has won a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a series of stories on a secret New York Police Department program that spied on Muslims.
Topics: Criminal Justice, NYPD Spying, /NOW Blog
100 Civil Rights Groups Call on Feds to Investigate NYPD for Spying on Muslims
by Jorge Rivas on March 21 2012, 2:41PM
Over 100 civil rights, faith, community, and advocacy groups signed a letter sent on Monday urging the Department of Justice to commence a prompt investigation into the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim Americans in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.
Topics: Criminal Justice, /NOW Blog
Bloomberg’s Fear of Muslims Helped Drive the NYPD’s Shameless Spying
by Seth Freed Wessler on March 15 2012, 9:28AM
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s defense of the NYPD’s spying on Muslim communities shouldn’t come as a surprise. The Mayor’s had a tense relationship with Muslim and Arab communities for nearly a decade.
Topics: Criminal Justice, NYPD Spying, National Security
Bloomberg Basically Admits NYPD Spied on Muslims For No Reason Other Than Religion
by Seth Freed Wessler on March 9 2012, 1:05PM
The New York Police Department has spied on Muslim New Yorkers for no other reason than that they are Muslim. Yesterday, after months of near silence from federal officials, Attorney General Eric Holder called the program “disturbing”.
Topics: Criminal Justice, NYPD Spying, /NOW Blog
A Closer Look at Ray Kelly’s Multi-Billion Dollar Army of Spies
by Seth Freed Wessler on March 1 2012, 10:33AM
New York Police Department has argued that it’s spending billions to spy on Muslim Americans in order to foil terror plots. That assertion simply doesn’t hold up against the few facts they’ve been willing to share.
Topics: NYPD Spying, National Security
AP Reports White House Helped Fund NYPD Muslim Spying Programs
by Jorge Rivas on February 28 2012, 1:09PM
The Associated Press reported Monday that the White House money has paid for the cars that plainclothes NYPD officers used to conduct surveillance on Muslim neighborhoods and paid for computers that stored even innocuous information about Muslim college students, mosque sermons and social events.
Topics: Criminal Justice, /NOW Blog
Group Files Paperwork to Find Out Who Gave NYPD Money To Spy
by Jorge Rivas on February 24 2012, 11:19AM
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund has submitted Freedom of Information Law requests to obtain public information regarding the sources of funding for these NYPD initiatives.
Topics: Criminal Justice, /NOW Blog
Muslim Students Reeling From Shocking News of NYPD’s Spying
by Seth Freed Wessler on February 24 2012, 9:01AM
On campuses all over the Northeast, horrified students are discovering they were targets of surveillance, simply because they joined a Muslim student group. But domestic religious profiling is now routine for both NPYD and the FBI.
Topics: Criminal Justice, NYPD Spying, National Security
Muslim Americans to NYPD: Enough Already, the Commish Must Go
by Seth Freed Wessler on January 27 2012, 9:48AM
This week’s revelation that NYPD leaders lied about their participation in an anti-Muslim film that was then shown to 1,500 trainees was just the latest in a growing string of evidence that the department is systematically profiling the city’s Muslim residents.
Topics: Criminal Justice, NYPD Spying, National Security
Groups Want NYPD Chief’s Job Over Anti-Muslim Propaganda in Trainings
by Jorge Rivas on January 26 2012, 11:32AM
Propaganda included a film that described the goal of “much of Muslim leadership here in America” is to “infiltrate and dominate” the United States.
Topics: Criminal Justice, /NOW Blog
Mos Def (AKA Yassin Bey) Included in the 2011 List of World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims
by Jorge Rivas on December 16 2011, 12:21PM
The list highlights public figures who have made a significant impact on the Muslim World.
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog
How Lowe’s Walked Into the Morality War Against Sex, Gays and Muslims
by Jamilah King on December 15 2011, 9:17AM
The company loves to tout its commitment to diversity. But it’s sheepishly running away from any meaningful discussion of race—and getting bullied by the rightwing fringe that has made Islamophobia a new priority.
Topics: Media
Group Says Lowe’s Is One of 64 Companies to Pull Ads From ‘All-American Muslim’
by Jorge Rivas on December 13 2011, 11:33AM
And the conservative Christian group’s got other high-profile targets, too.
Topics: Media
NYC Muslim Leaders Encourage Residents to Know Their Rights
by Jorge Rivas on November 15 2011, 3:05PM
After an investigation found that the NYPD had infiltrated hundreds of Muslim mosques to spy on civilians, community leaders are people to be careful.
Topics: Criminal Justice
We’re Cautiously Optimistic About the ‘All-American Muslim’ Reality TV Show
by Jorge Rivas on November 8 2011, 2:47PM
Let’s hope it’s better than the scandalous shows that make up our reality TV landscape.
Topics: Arts & Culture
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
Muslim Woman Kicked Off Southwest Flight After ‘It’s a Go’ Mix-Up
by Jorge Rivas on October 10 2011, 2:57PM
Southwest Airlines flight officials did not let Irum Abbasi re-board because the crew was “uncomfortable” with her on the plane.
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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Irvine 11 Case Against Muslim Students Sets Dangerous Precedent
by Noelle de la Paz on September 28 2011, 10:03AM
An Orange County jury found 10 Muslim student protesters guilty of violating Israeli ambassador Michael Oren’s freedom of speech. But will the verdict stifle protests by students of color on college campuses?
Topics: Criminal Justice
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