Showing posts with label Muslims. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muslims. Show all posts

Thursday, March 12, 2026

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 


 

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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 


 

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

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

 

Saturday, November 16, 2024

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."…

Friday, October 25, 2024

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…

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Thursday, June 20, 2024

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.)

Saturday, November 5, 2022

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.
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Thursday, November 19, 2020

‘We should be thankful to him’: why some Muslim voters stood by Trump

...On the heels of the newly appointed supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett, abortion remains a hot topic and a key issue for faith-based voters. Annette Khan credits her social conservative views on abortion and sexuality to her faith as well and sees them reflected in the Republican party under Trump...


Saturday, June 22, 2019

Katharine Gorka to be new spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection - The Washington Post

As President Trump threatens massive arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants, Customs and Border Protection is expected to name Katharine Gorka, the wife of fired Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, as its new spokeswoman. Gorka and her husband — the combative former adviser to Trump who still vigorously defends the president — share hard-line views on national security and have made incendiary remarks about Muslims that have been seen as promoting Islamophobia.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/katharine-gorka-to-be-new-spokeswoman-for-customs-and-border-protection/2019/06/18/84d2d92a-91fa-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html



Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Blackwater founder Erik Prince’s new company is building training center in Xinjiang - The Washington Post

Frontier Services Group, the security contractor led by Erik Prince, who created the controversial Blackwater company, will build a training base in Xinjiang, the western Chinese region where as many as 1 million Muslims have been put into extrajudicial detention camps.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/blackwater-founder-erik-princes-new-company-building-training-center-in-xinjiang/2019/02/01/ac372d40-2602-11e9-ba08-caf4ff5a3433_story.html







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