Muslims
In an address delivered from the White House Oval Office, President Obama on Sunday condemned radical terrorists and ISIS, calling the group "thugs and killers" with a "perverted interpretation of Islam."
Just this week, Trump said there should be a database that keeps track of Muslims within our country. "There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases," he told NBC News yesterday. "I would certainly implement that, absolutely."
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said the United States should "absolutely" never elect a Muslim president.
Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim high school student who alarmed teachers for making a clock thought to be a bomb, will not be charged.
A White supremacist has been convicted of plotting to build and use a radiation device to kill President Barack Obama and Muslims.
Muslim organizations have banded together to raise $100,000 in an effort to help rebuild Black churches in the South that were torched in recent months, the Huffington Post reports. Three organizations — the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, the Arab-American Association of New York and Ummah Wide — launched the “Respond With Love” campaign July 2 to raise funds, combating a false […]
The image of terrorism in America is slowly changing. New studies indicate White supremacists, anti-government persons, and other non-Islamic extremists have killed more people in the country than radical Muslims. Washington research center New America studied acts of terror in the country since September 11, 2001, reports the New York Times. In the past 14 years, deadly right-wing attacks have […]
Mounting his political offensive against ISIS, President Barack Obama dismissed the conceit that the group is fighting from a religious perspective, labeling them instead as terrorists, who in no way represent Islam, according to a White House statement. The president made the statement Wednesday at the White House in front of a group of law […]
TRENTON, N.J. — Civil rights organizations are calling for investigations into the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslims in the Northeast. SEE ALSO: Why Lowered Expectations Are A Key Winning Strategy For Obama The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut said Thursday it is among 10 groups that requested investigations in letters to state […]
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department is reviewing complaints about surveillance by the New York City Police Department of Muslim and Arab communities. At a hearing before a House appropriations subcommittee, the attorney general said the department has not opened a formal investigation. The Associated Press first reported that the NYPD […]
WASHINGTON — Millions of dollars in White House money has helped pay for New York Police Department programs that put entire American Muslim neighborhoods under surveillance. SEE ALSO: Jan Brewer: “Too Busy” To Attend Obama Dinner The money is part of a little-known grant intended to help law enforcement fight drug crimes. Since the terrorist […]
NEWARK, N.J. – Americans living and working in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city’s mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months […]
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