By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Ben Carson’s and Donald Trump’s comments about Muslims over the weekend again showed the GOP as the party of exclusion, not inclusion (though to be fair Sen. Lindsey Graham and Gov. Chris Christie had the intestinal fortitude to denounce those comments, unlike the rest of the […]
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Islam-hatred
Trump Pledges to “Look into” Paranoid Charges of Muslim-American Terror camps
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump has probably benefited so far from giving long stemwinders of a speech on the hustings, saying enough outrageous things in each one to inflict on journalists information overload. He got away with a lot of awful statements because journalists only had room to focus […]
Islam Hysteria: 14 yr old Muslim Student Invents Digital Clock, is Arrested
The Dallas Morning News | (Video Interview with Ahmad Mohamed) | – – “Ahmed Mohamed, 14, an Irving MacArthur High student who invents as a hobby, talks about being detained and interrogated after bringing a homemade clock to school Monday that was mistaken for a hoax bomb.” The Dallas Morning News: “Irving MacArthur student arrested […]
Louisiana Muslim-Haters call 911 in Panic over Hebrew Sign
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Some Louisiana residents panicked when they found a sign written in what they thought was Arabic. It turned out to be Hebrew. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. “Residents […]
Michigan Town Fears ISIL Summer Camp In Their Backyard
John Iadarola, Hannah Cranston, Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “A Michigan town has blocked one of their Muslim residents from building a summer camp, for fear that it will become an ISIS training camp. The man wanted to build the camp for his son and daughter to bring their scout […]
European Islamophobic Networks influenced Roof to Kill in Charleston
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Muslim-hatred of the Geert Wilders and Marine LePens in Europe, for which Daniel Pipes, and Pamela Geller, and the whole Islamophobic network are cheerleaders and enablers, was a key influence on Dylann Roof, according to his manifesto. These same hatemongers helped whip Norwegian white supremacist […]
Boston Terrorism suspect Rahim switched from Hate Speech Activist Geller to Police as Target
WCVB Channel 5 Boston | (Video) | – – “Boston terror suspect Usaamah Rahim originally plotted to behead conservative activist Pamela Geller but changed his mind and decided to target Massachusetts police officers because it would have been easier, according to an affidavit.” WCVB Channel 5 Boston: “FBI: Boston terror suspect wanted to go after […]
United Tells Muslim Woman Passenger ‘No Soda For Terrorists’
Jose Marcelino Ortiz and Nik Zecevic | (TheLipTV Video) | — “United Airlines discriminated against Muslim passenger Tahera Ahmad following a request she made for an unopened can of Diet Coke during her flight from Chicago to Washington on Friday. According to Ahmad, an attendant denied her the soda claiming it could be used “as […]
Are there Echoes of the old Anti-Semitism in today’s Islam-Hatred?
Anne-Ruth Wertheim | (Informed Comment) | – Recently, the head of the Dutch national police Gerard Bouman warned against the poison that was seeping into his organisation: Muslims were continually being forced to prove their loyalty. Has Islamophobia really come this far? And can what is happening now be compared to pre-World War II anti-Semitism? […]