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...
WIRED.COM: “FBI Crime Maps Now ‘Pinpoint’ Average Muslims”
Tweet From Wired.com By Spencer Ackerman October 24, 2011 It started out as a crimefighting tool. But over the years, an FBI effort known as “geo-mapping” evolved into something more expansive — a method to track Muslim communities, without any suspicion of a crime being committed. Last month, Danger Room revealed that the FBI was training...
NEWS: “Eric Holder ‘Firmly Committed’ To Ending Anti-Muslim Training”
Tweet From Talking Points Memo RYAN J. REILLY OCTOBER 19, 2011 Attorney General Eric Holder is “firmly committed” to nixing anti-Muslim material from law enforcement training, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, Dwight C. Holton said Wednesday. Holton, who was U.S. Attorney when the FBI arrested the so-called Christmas tree bomber, said that he spoke...
NPR AUDIO: “FBI Use of Confidential ‘Informants’ Skyrockets”
Tweet From National Public Radio August 21, 2011 In today’s post 9/11 America, there are 15,000 informants working with the FBI. That’s nearly three times as many as there were 25 years ago. Over the years, when there has been a surge in the number of informants the FBI recruits and uses, there’s a specific...
MAGAZINE: “Is the FBI Spying on Your Mosque? Too Bad.”
Tweet From Mother Jones Magazine Obama, once a critic of the state secrets doctrine, has invoked it repeatedly. But critics say his latest use of Bush’s favorite get-out-of-court-free card is different. —By Hamed Aleaziz Mon Aug. 8, 2011 3:00 AM PDT The state secrets privilege—perhaps the most powerful weapon in the government’s legal arsenal—has a complicated...
MAGAZINE: “Fake Terror Threats Concocted by FBI and NYPD?”
Tweet From ColorLines Magazine by Seth Freed Wessler Monday, May 23 2011, 9:38 AM EST Shahawar Matin Siraj immigrated to Queens, N.Y., from Pakistan with his family when he was 16. Siraj began working at his uncle’s Islamic bookshop in Queens where, soon after 9/11, an undercover police officer began coming around and engaging Siraj...
AP: “City & Federal Authorities Probing Mosque Fire”
Tweet Associated Press 7:20 p.m. CDT, April 16, 2011 DETROIT— Federal and local authorities are trying to figure out what caused a fire at a Detroit mosque. Detroit fire Capt. Kwaku Atara said Thursday that city investigators have joined agents from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at the Islamic Center...
PAPER: “Missouri Islamic Center Reports Threat”
Tweet Local faith leader decries actions targeting Muslims. April 14, 2011 | Springfield (MO) News-Leader Jamil Saquer, a board member at the Islamic Center of Springfield, shows the general area where the Qurans were found outside the center. / Nathan Papes / News-Leader “My hope and prayer is that they are not intimidated by it.” -Rev....
