ABC NEWS: “How The NYPD Spied on American Muslim Students at Yale & Other Top Universities”
Tweet From ABC News By CRISTINA COSTANTINI (@xtinatini) Feb. 7, 2013 Almost exactly a year ago, the Associated Press obtained a declassified document revealing that the New York City Police Department monitored student activities of Muslim Student Associations (MSA) in at least 15 colleges across the northeast, including at some of the nation’s top schools, like Yale University and...
NEWS: “FBI Says Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Numbers Still Up”
Tweet From Salon.com Statistics released today suggest that the numbers haven’t dipped since an unprecedented 50 percent spike in 2010 BY MARK POTOK, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER This article was originally published by The Southern Poverty Law Center. Hate crimes against perceived Muslims, which jumped up 50% in 2010 largely as a result of anti-Muslim propagandizing, remained at...
NEWS: “Louisiana Republican Congressman’s Restaurant Refused to Serve Muslim Couple”
Tweet From Talking Points Memo Mohammad Husain and his wife were looking for a bite to eat and a nice place to relax when they stopped in last month at a Shreveport, La. sandwich shop owned by Rep. John Fleming (R-LA). But that visit soon turned turbulent, Husain told TPM recently, when he found himself...
VIDEO: “NYPD Police Hunt Serial Killer of Middle Eastern Shopkeepers in Brooklyn”
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WALL STREET JOURNAL: “Federal Court Says Michigan Can Ban Anti-Islam Ads from Buses”
Tweet From Wall Street Journal By Joe Palazzolo Does First Amendment protect our right to say what we want in advertisements on the side of a city bus? Yes and no. A federal appeals court ruled Thursdaythat a Michigan transit authority could bar from the side of its buses an advertisement that read: “Fatwa on your head? Is your family...
ASSOCIATED PRESS: “Informant Says NYPD Paid Him to ‘Bait’ Muslims”
Tweet From Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A paid informant for the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit was under orders to “bait” Muslims into saying incriminating things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press....
CNN: “Man Arrested in Plot to Blow up 48 Churches in Oklahoma”
Tweet From CNN From Joe Sutton, CNN updated 8:41 PM EDT, Mon October 8, 2012 Gregory Arthur Weiler II, 23, was arrested last week at a motel in Miami, Oklahoma. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Gregory Arthur Weiler II was arrested at a motel last week Authorities found bomb-making materials and a handwritten journal He is charged with...
NEWSPAPER: “Jewish College Student’s Jaw Broken & Mouth Stapled in Apparent Hate Crime”
Tweet From Detroit Free Press A 19-year-old Michigan State University student is recovering at home in Oakland County today after surgery overnight for a broken jaw his family says stems from a brutal hate crime. Two men at a party early Sunday attacked Zachary Tennen, a journalism sophomore at MSU, after asking whether he was...
NBC NEWS: “Recent Attacks on U.S. Mosques Spark Security Concerns for American Muslims”
Tweet From NBC News By Kari Huus, NBC News On Sunday and Monday, when Muslims will celebrate the end of Ramadan, even many who are less observant the rest of the year will be at mosques to pray. Worshippers will celebrate, but many will do so amid heightened security after a recent spike in attacks on mosques and...
SALON.COM: “Eight Mosque Attacks in 11 Days”
Tweet From Salon.com There’s a crime wave targeting houses of worship, most of them Muslim. Is something sinister at work? BY UZMA KOLSY The remains of the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque (Credit: Islamic Society of Joplin/Facebook) David Conrad, a resident of Morton Grove, Illinois, was likely peeved by the noise from the Muslim Education Center. Conrad’s home is...
