John James, Republican running for governor, relates Dearborn religious procession to extremism

“Mr. James is literally labeling the First Amendment, constitutionally protected right of freedom of assembly, as somehow un-American and attached to extremism,” CAIR Michigan’s executive director Dawud Walid told Michigan Public. “We find this to be highly problematic especially from an individual who is a veteran defending the rights of Americans.”…

 “The irony of it is that the same people that [James] criticized in Dearborn as extremists have family members displaced or killed” in Iraq due to the war, he said…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-07-06/john-james-republican-running-for-governor-relates-dearborn-religious-procession-to-extremism

 

‘It definitely trickles down’: Muslims in Texas suffer effects of Republicans’ hate speech

Muslims say anti-Islamic rhetoric making everyday life difficult – and threats and harassment not uncommon…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/texas-muslims-hate-speech

 

Trump demands it, but Muslim-majority nations aren't ready to join the Abraham Accords - POLITICO

Upon hearing of Trump’s demands, one former U.S. official sent mock notes to Arab officials congratulating them on joining the Abraham Accords — and received laughter emojis in response. 

The former U.S. official said some of their Arab official contacts view the Trump demand as a “poison pill,” adding that “it creates new conditions for peace that neither Iran nor the states in question will accept.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/26/trump-muslim-majority-nations-abraham-accords-00936785

 

Texas Senate runoff sees surge of anti-Muslim rhetoric in campaign ads

“Every time it’s an election year, this is one of the favorite cards that the GOP plays to get votes,” said Shehla Faizi, a Texas Muslim running for state comptroller as a member of the Green party. “We have a boogeyman, the boogeyman are Muslims, and we’re going to use that to make people afraid and force them to vote for us.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/texas-senate-runoff-anti-muslim-ad

 

Hegseth's Pastor DEMANDS CATHOLICS & MUSLIMS be Ruled by His Church

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icUK_P5GWj8

 

Tuberville shares social media post suggesting Muslims are ‘the enemy’ - Live Updates - POLITICO

GOP leadership has remained quiet as a growing number of party members post Islamophobic rhetoric on social media...

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/12/congress/tuberville-shares-islamophobic-post-00826189

Muslim advocacy organization logged record number of civil rights complaints last year

"We are facing a coordinated system of government overreach. It's the family being pulled aside and harassed by CBP agents at the Detroit-Windsor tunnel," he said. "It's the student whose phone is searched at the airport for no reason."…

https://www.michiganpublic.org/social-justice/2026-03-10/muslim-advocacy-organization-logged-record-number-of-civil-rights-complaints-last-year 

 

Republicans go all-in on 'Sharia law' attacks ahead of Texas primary - POLITICO

From the state's white-hot GOP Senate primary down to local races, Republican candidates are pledging to fight the hardest against a proposed residential development of 1,000 homes centered around a Mosque north of Dallas, while issuing dire warnings about the supposed threat of Islam and questioning their opponents' commitment to the cause...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/26/republicans-go-all-in-on-sharia-law-attacks-ahead-of-texas-primary-00745647 

 

Rep. Fine, Sen. Tuberville call for mass expulsion of American Muslims - The Washington Post

"Some of the anti-Muslim conspiracy theories that died out years ago, like Muslims plotting take over America and impose sharia law, or the Muslim Brotherhood secretly controlling all American Muslims … about nine months ago, they all came back in a flood," Mitchell said. "We certainly do not want to see the progress that American Muslims have made in media, politics and activism and in the courts of law eroded by this wave of hate that we're seeing." .

Democrats in Congress have condemned Tuberville and Fine's rhetoric

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/15/republicans-muslim-mass-expulsions/

 

Florida Republicans are furious that Muslims are using a voucher program meant to boost Christianity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R1WEPXIfrI

Outrage after Republican representative disparages Sikh prayer in the US House | Republicans | The Guardian

Mary Miller had first mistaken Giani Singh for a Muslim and said it was 'deeply troubling' he was allowed to lead prayer…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/us-house-prayer-republican-mary-miller 

 

Muslim Trump Voters get RUDE AWAKENING in First Week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82_w2Zi-Iho

 

Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Hopes for a Christian Crusade – Mother Jones

In 2020, Hegseth turned his obsession with the Christian Crusades into a book, American Crusade. In a piece this week, Media Matters noted that one of its central themes is the destruction of Muslim holy sites in order to reclaim them for Christianity. 

Hegseth also rails against Muslims' "well-documented aversion to assimilation." Julie Ingersoll, a University of North Florida religious studies professor who has studied the Reconstructionist tradition that the TheoBros are part of, told me she finds Hegseth's fixation on the Crusades "really troubling—but also it's completely consistent with the Christian Reconstructionists. 

That's particularly troubling for someone who might have the biggest military in the world under his control."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-peter-hegseth-defense-secretary-pick-theobros-hopes-for-a-christian-crusade/

In Georgia, Harris’s Muslim Backers Push Her as Better Than the Alternative - The New York Times

With polls still showing the presidential race a dead heat against former President Donald J. Trump, Ms. Harris's Muslim backers in Georgia are making a frantic push to reach voters who are angry and upset about the escalating violence in the Mideast. One attendee showed up to the gathering in Dunwoody with a message he hoped the others there would hear, and spread — that if the humanitarian crisis in Gaza was their top concern, Mr. Trump and Republicans would be worse…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/politics/harris-georgia-muslim-arab-voters.html

Muslim group endorses Harris despite opposition to her Gaza policy

Emgage Action, which works to turn out Muslim voters, said Muslim voters need to stop Trump first and then push a potential Kamala Harris administration afterward…

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/muslim-group-endorses-harris-opposition-gaza-policy-rcna172670

Antisemitic Ads About Doug Emhoff Target Muslim Voters in Michigan - The New York Times

An ad campaign in the state, funded by a group that appears tied to Republicans, seems designed to remind Muslim voters of Kamala Harris's pro-Israel views and her husband's Jewish faith...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/us/politics/antisemitic-ads-doug-emhoff-muslim-michigan.html

At event for Christian lawmakers, panelists insist Satanists can't be school chaplains

Panelists at an event for the National Association of Christian Lawmakers explained how to get Christian chaplains in public schools. As a bonus, they said, Satanists and Muslims could be excluded from the mix. (They're wrong. That's illegal.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rQl9fr5KCo

The Power of Protest (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

Iranian-born Maryam Namazie, with "Ex-Muslims of Britain" and "One Law For All," describes the dire situation in Iran where protesters of the patriarchal regime are being persecuted and killed; she also tells us how we can help. Then we speak with Harvard student Aidan Scully, who writes a secular bi-weekly column for the student newspaper The Harvard Crimson called "The Free Exercise Thereof" that combats Christian Nationalism and advocates for state/church separation.

Interview: 

https://ffrf.org/news/radio/show-items/item/41538-freethought-radio-october-27-2022

The Archaeological Roots of Today's Strife in Jerusalem | Time

…Western Christians primed Muslims to feel that their sanctuary was under siege, and that feeling is stronger than ever…

https://time.com/6112694/jerusalem-israeli-palestinian-conflict-archaeology/

Who are the Uighurs? China’s Xinjiang crackdown explained. - The Washington Post

China's crackdown on the Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang, explained...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/11/china-uighurs-genocide-xinjiang/