Prosecutors in Alameda County, California, have filed hate crime charges against a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employee who was filmed earlier this month ridiculing a Muslim man and throwing coffee on him. The incident was captured on cellphone video. Denise Slader, who is employed as a program technician with the department’s Adult Parole Operations, […]
Last Thursday, Carolyn Walker-Diallo was sworn in as a municipal court judge in New York. Since she’s a Muslim, she was wearing a traditional head covering for a woman, a hijab, and she also took her oath of office with her hand on the Koran instead of the Bible. But from the reaction by some narrow-minded […]
If one does indeed become infamous as a consequence of being famous, then Donald Trump is fast becoming infamous by the day. From dissing Mexicans to his remarks on women, and more recently with his announcement that he would bar all Muslims from immigrating to the United States, the Donald is running out of groups […]
Appearing on CNN Tuesday, the national spokesperson for the Donald Trump campaign asserted that there is really no difference between “insurgents” and law-abiding Muslims in the United States. Katrina Pierson was reminded by CNN host S.E. Cupp: “No one’s talking about allowing insurgents. You’re talking about not allowing regular Muslims. That’s what you’re talking about. […]
On Friday, Jerry Falwell, Jr. the president of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, stood up in front of the weekly student convocation and decided to make a statement regarding the shootings in San Bernardino, California, which left 14 people dead and dozens more injured. Falwell told the gathered students: “I’ve always thought that if more […]
Since David Gregory left as host of “Meet the Press” and was replaced by Chuck Todd, I admit that I rarely watch the show. I don’t care for Chuck Todd. He’s a decent reporter, but as a host I find him more than a bit tiresome. But today on “Meet the Press,” Todd took GOP […]
A young Muslim woman from Corona, California, decided she would take up Donald Trump on his call for American Muslims to wear some form of identification showing their religious affiliation, and the letter she wrote and posted on Facebook has gone viral. Marwa Balkar posted her response letter last week, and since then it has […]
Haneen Jasim is a pre-med student at the University of Cincinnati, and on Sunday she was returning home from a study session at a local Starbucks when she says a man in a car called her a terrorist and tried to run over her. According to Jasim, the man began honking his horn, cursing, and calling her […]
Since the Paris attacks, all we’ve heard from the chattering class on the far right is that Islam is a religion of violence which mandates jihad, or holy war. They even say the Koran is rife with incidents of violence and calls to kill all enemies of Islam. Which, if you didn’t know, is utter […]
Well now, looks like Ben Carson and Donald Trump are trying to see who can be the most offensive to anyone who happens to be a Muslim or is from another country. You may recall that yesterday the Donald declared that it might be a good idea for all Muslims in America to carry or wear […]