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President Biden Announces First-Ever National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia
Today, President Biden and Vice President Harris announced the first U.S. National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia.
Tagged Islamophobia
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Once the Loveable Losers, Are Chicago Cubs Now Another Hateful Chick-fil-A—and does it matter?
Gaining notoriety for its historical financial support of anti-LGBTQ organizations, fast-food restaurant Chick-fil-A, it was recently reported, has continued to donate to such causes to the tune of $1.8 million, according to recently released tax documents. Some seven years ago, you may recall, the company was thrust into the center of a national controversy when…
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Opinion: Violence Against “The Other” Is What Trump’s America Looks Like
As four men approached their lone victim, Trump’s acolytes shouted, “Hey snowflake! This is what a Trump America looks like, fag*ot!”
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Opinion: Trump’s Domestic Religious Crusade Has Begun in Earnest
The deliberate omission of white extremist attacks is necessary for Trump to convince Americans that the only one thing they have to fear is Islam.
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Opinion: Trump Creates a Constitutional Crisis With Muslim Ban
Trump’s order includes the flagrantly unconstitutional detention of perfectly legal immigrants whose only crime is their national origin and religion.
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Minorities and Muslims Should Fear the Incoming White Supremacist Administration
These Trump appointments of extreme racists and religious bigots do not bode well for any Americans who are not white and not Christian.
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No Response from Trump about Houston Nazi Mass Shooter
The man was wearing military clothes with Nazi patches and emblems and armed with a handgun, a machine gun and 2,600 rounds of “live ammunition.”
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Trump Says We Have No Choice, a Muslim Student’s Emotional Appeal Shows We Do
Trump asks, “Do we really have a choice?” to which Aleena Khan says, “And all I ask is for acceptance and tolerance from others”
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Despite Capturing Manhattan Bombing Suspect, Trump Says Police Are “Afraid”
Trump got around to criticizing another demographic in America and this time chose to insult the professional law enforcement community.
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Minnesota Police Chief Bravely Rejects Fox News Invite to Hate Chorus on Immigrants
“I can tell you that the vast majority of all of our citizens, no matter their ethnicity, are fine, hard-working people, and now is not the time for us to be divisive.”
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Muslim Women Are Set on Fire and Assaulted For Being Muslims
It is time for the mayor and the NYPD to put forward the necessary resources to investigate and prevent these attacks on the Muslim community.
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The Endless War on Terror: Remembering 9/11 and Knowing Our Neighbors
In the midst of our tributes to the first responders of then and now, in our gratefulness for those who serve in our nation’s military and for those who have given their lives in this service, and in our hope for tomorrow, can we also make room again to ponder the call to welcome the world’s exhausted, suffering, homeless ones for whom this nation’s welcome light shines?
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Bryan Fischer Wants to Ban Muslims Who Visit Mecca
“I think that anyone that’s from a Muslim country that wants to immigrate to the United States, they not only should ask these questions, they should do it hooked up to a polygraph machine.”
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CNN Debunks Trump Claim That Some Areas of US Are Under Sharia Law
“Even though if states are pushing these anti-Sharia laws, that does not prove that anyone is trying in any credible, tangible, big way to establish Sharia law”
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Trump Draws Blame For Slain N.Y. Imam And His Assistant
“We blame Donald Trump for this . . .his drama has created Islamophobia. This is a hate crime no matter which way you look at it.”
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Americans Are Being Thrown Off Planes For Appearing Muslim
These incidents happen all across the country all too frequently as a symptom of anti-Muslim behavior we see during election season.
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Trump Denounced by PFAW as Attacks on Khan Family Continue
“It has become abundantly clear that Donald Trump shares the cruelty and recklessness of Joseph McCarthy as well as his lack of decency. “
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Oklahoma Republican Calls For “Final Solution” To Muslims Because “Islam Is Not a Religion”
“We have no long term alternative but to quarantine them… prohibiting them from residing anywhere within the civilized nations of the Earth.”
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Cruz And Trump Share Tactics To Deal With Americans Practicing Islam
Like Joe McCarthy, Trump and Cruz see secret enemy Muslims and share a McCarthy plan to destroy them.
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No Surprise That Donald Trump Is Aiding ISIS and The Ku Klux Klan
Using the ISIS playbook, Trump has become, for the KKK “the greatest thing to happen to white supremacists,” likely since legalized lynching
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Donald Trump’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Caused 19 Acts of Domestic Terrorism Last Week
The GOP is inciting domestic terrorism toward Muslims, anyone that might appear to be Middle Eastern, or anyplace a Muslim might worship
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Republicans Can Learn What Religious Freedom Means from Muslims
Islamic nations are adamant in protecting the rights of all religions within their borders as an important adherence to their Islamic faith
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Trump’s Extremist Bigotry Against Muslims Is Now The Republican Moderate Position
Maybe now it is time for sane Americans to stop laughing or shaking their heads in disgust at Trump and follow President Obama and other Democrats in addressing Trump’s open hostility against any non-white and non-Christian for exactly what it is; patently un-American, hate-filled bigotry and genuinely inhumane.
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Republicans Have Blood On Their Hands For Inciting Deadly Domestic Terrorism
Americans can make a very accurate inference that Republicans have blood on their hands for inciting rage and more violence towards women’s healthcare providers; just like they are inciting violence against American Muslims.
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Republicans Hypocritically Call out Trump’s Fascist ‘Spy on Your Neighbor’ Proposals
It is true, Trump is a fascist, but so are Republicans, the Koch brothers, and millions of angry white racist evangelicals and the Tea Party
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Limbaugh, Republican Claim Obama Supports ISIS and Hates Freedom Because Refugees
They claim Obama is a collaborator because he adheres to America’s long-standing exceptionalism of giving war-weary refugees a safe haven
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Not Just Trump: Republicans Embrace Hitler’s Nazi Tactics to Target Muslims
Trump is not alone. Increasingly, Republicans are calling for concentration camps to be built to house Syrian refugees for now
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Biker Thugs Converge On Arizona Mosque Armed Looking For War
But now, the Texas-size extremism is spreading to Arizona and it includes Texas-style armed biker thugs, conspiracy theorists, and anti-Muslim sentiments that set Texas apart as right-wing extremist central.
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Texas Protesters To American Muslim Group: “Go Home And Take Obama With You”
Over the weekend, a protest formed at a conference in Texas held by a Muslim group titled “Stand With the Prophet Against Terror and Hate.” Protesters directed their hate towards Muslim attendees of the event.
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Rudy Giuliani Uses Charlie Hebdo Tragedy To Demand America Become A Police State
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani used the terrorist attack on a French newspaper to insist that the United States needs to have a police presence inside all Muslim places of worship.
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Conservative Columnist Predictably Uses French Terror Attack To Criticize President Obama
Shortly after news broke Wednesday morning that three gunmen attacked a French satirical newspaper, Breitbart columnist Ben Shapiro decided to use the tragic event to take shots at President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Republican Media Is Responsible For Muslim Child and African Americans Being Murdered
African Americans are not the only victims of media incitement to murder as was borne out on Thursday in Missouri as a sign of the success of Republican media’s successful 13-year fear mongering campaign.
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Religious Purity Movement By Right-Wing Fanatics Threatens Faith in America
What is curious, is that although America is not, was not, and never will be a Christian nation, there are signs that a religious purity crusade is gaining traction.
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Propaganda Demonizing Islam Is Starting to Infect Public Schools
Of course the Americans putting Goebbels’s propaganda tactics into practice are Fox News, neo-conservatives, Republicans, and their religious right sycophants, and their big lie is that the greatest threat to this nation is every person who adheres to the Muslim faith.
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Pamela Geller Makes Herself the Victim in the Reza Aslan Controversy
Muslim baiter Geller is affronted that anyone defends scholar Reza Aslan for writing a book about Jesus yet not defend her for hating Muslims
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Republicans Claim That Immigration Reform Will Invite Terrorist Attacks
Some Republicans have conflated the identities of Muslims and Hispanics because they share similar skin color and to make their case that immigration reform is tantamount to inviting terror attacks.
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Conservative Calls For Obama’s Impeachment Are A Cover for Their Sore Loser Racism
The list of charges conservatives have leveled at the President that they claim are irrefutable impeachable offenses that demonstrate their complaints are a cover for racism and anger over losing.
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Republican Religious Freedom Hypocrites Call For Profiling American Muslims
With Republicans inciting more anti-Muslim sentiment, there will be more incidents of racial and religious profiling that Republicans never extended to white Christians guilty of terrorist attacks.
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A Close Listen Reveals Mitt Romney’s Religious Bigotry
Romney’s message to the Muslim world that religious bigotry is an American value informs that he is not, and never will be, ready to be on the world stage in any capacity.
How Michele Bachmann Profited off her Islamophobic McCarthyism
Michele Bachmann was spanked by her party leadership but got herself appointed to an Islamophobic law center and hauled in a cool million
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Cantor’s Defense of Bachmann Reveals the Hypocrisy of his Embrace of Diversity
CBS’ Charlie Rose asked Cantor how his views on tolerance squared with Bachmann’s attack on Huma Abedin. Cantor’s response was illuminating
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Having Backed Herself into McCarthy’s Corner, Bachmann Lashes Out
Michele Bachmann’s anti-Muslim witch-hunt has backfired, drawing condemnation from fellow Republicans and mockery from the Muslim Brotherhood
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A Look at 30 Extremists Who Want to Destroy America
Southern Poverty Law Center offers a list of 30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right, who represent the worst America has to offer
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The Dirty Thirty – April Fool’s Edition
The Republican assault on American liberties has continued in 2012 with continued emphasis on the reproductive rights of women and women’s health
From Islamophobia To Obama: The Right’s Growing Subculture Of Hate
There is a subculture of hate that is growing in response to an African American in the White House and the GOP presidential hopefuls are inflaming it with coded references to taking America back.
High Pucker Factors Are Not Just for Caliphates Anymore
Republicans insist we must fear the specter of an world Islamic Caliphate while ignoring the dangers of a Christian theocracy at home
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The Dirty Thirty – the GOP’s Rights Killing Agenda for America
With no signs of abating. Republican legislatures are if anything more eager than ever to press their rights-killing agenda for America and Americans
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Oh the Things They Say About Islam
Republicans in embracing 1950s-style paranoia makes Islam the new Communism and accuses it of everything the GOP is itself guilty of
The Dirty Thirty – New Year’s Edition
The Dirty Thirty New Year’s Edition updates our survey of the GOP’s war on women, the environment, education, voting rights and more
The Dirty Thirty Year End Edition
The Dirty Thirty Year-End edition is a recap of legislation, local, state and federal, the GOP is using to destroy America
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Muslims and Pagans Oh My! (A Christofascist Nightmare)
The Tea Partier in question, John Trautman, was criticizing the build of a mosque. He said “are not only our enemy but pagans. Why would we want them in our backyard?”
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Oklahoma Judge Stands Up for the First Amendment
Oklahoma’s efforts to turn the state’s Muslim population into Untermensch (or “sub-humans”) in some sort of quasi-National Socialist racial hierarchy, with White Anglo-Saxon Protestants occupying the top rung as Herrenvolk (or “master race”) of the Volksgemeinschaft (or “national community”) have hit a snag. A federal judge did what a federal judge is supposed to do…
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Barack Obama, High Priest of Baal
When Republicans recently declined to meet with President Obama, it was a rejection of Old Testament proportions. The degree of concern over President Obama’s religion is truly astounding. How can any God-fearing Republican have any time at all for any liberal? It’s like inviting a Canaanite to dinner, or for the Republicans in this case, agreeing to meet with the high priest of Baal in his house.
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Sarah Palin’s New Twitter Moment
Sarah Palin has another Tweeter moment. It’s ironic really, that she is the star of a reality show but reality is not a friend to her. She seems to be saying to reality (shrieking really), “Reality, you’re not the boss of me!”
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Judson Phillips’ Islamophobic Doublespeak
Phillips wants Keith Ellison (D) U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district, out of office because he is a Muslim.
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The Heritage Foundation Declares War On Islam
“Since then, the American-led counteroffensive has done much to turn back the Islamist tide.” Carafano revealed that the Heritage Foundation believes the Afghan war is a war on Islam; not a war on terror.