NEWSPAPER: “2 Women Sentenced in Hate Crime Against Pakistani Muslim Woman”
From Buffalo News Updated: May 12, 2012, 6:49 AM LOCKPORT — Two women from Niagara Falls were sentenced to weekend jail terms Friday for their hate crime assault on a Pakistani woman last summer. Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas ordered Sheree A. Sabater, 39, to four months of weekends in the County Jail and three...
REUTERS: “Kansas Lawmakers Pass Effective Ban on Islamic Law”
From Reuters by Kevin MurphyMay 12, 2012 KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) – Kansas lawmakers have passed legislation intended to prevent the state courts or agencies from using Islamic or other non-U.S. laws in making decisions, a measure critics have blasted as an embarrassment to the state. The legislation, which passed 33-3 in the state Senate...
AP: “AT&T to Pay Muslim Woman $5 Million for Anti-Islam Harassment”
From Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse boiled over in 2008 when her boss snatched her head scarf and exposed her hair. A Jackson County jury on Thursday awarded Susann Bashir $5 million in punitive damages in...
MSNBC: “Philly Muslims Offer $20,000 Reward for Capture of Bank Robbers Wearing Burqa’s”
From MSNBC By Jim Gold Philadelphia-area Muslims are offering a $20,000 reward to find criminals cloaking their identities beneath Islamic women’s clothing, saying the crooks are feeding mistrust of their faith. Members of Majlis Ash Shura, a group representing 71 mosques and congregations in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, and Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said...
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: “Anders Breivik & The Rise of Islamophobia in Europe”
From Foreign Policy Magazine The trial of Norway’s alleged mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is only the tip of the iceberg in a rising sea of radical Islamophobia in Europe. BY PAUL HOCKENOS | APRIL 19, 2012 The biggest mistake that Europeans could make while watching the ongoing trial of Anders Behring Breivik in Norway is to...
NY REVIEW OF BOOKS: “39 Ways To Limit Free Speech in America”
From The New York Review of Books by Professor David Cole Tarek Mehanna Google “39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad” and you’ll get over 590,000 hits. You’ll find full-text English language translations of this Arabic document on the Internet Archive, an Internet library; on 4Shared Desktop, a file-sharing site; and on numerous Islamic sites. You...
VIDEO: “Texas Men Fired from IHOP Restaurant Because of Arab & Muslim Background”
From WFAA-TV (Dallas)
