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NEWS VIDEO: “82-Year-Old Indian Sikh Man Beaten With Iron Bar in Possible Hate Crime”
From CBS-47 TV (California) Fresno’s Sikh community is outraged. They say an elderly member of their temple was brutallyattacked…in a hate crime. CBS 47’s Lemor Abrams has more on the investigation. Police say they are taking this very seriously and plan … Continue reading
HUFFINGTON POST: “My Racist Encounter at the White House Correspondents Dinner”
From Huffington Post by Seema Jilani | Physician reporting from Afghanistan The faux red carpet had been laid out for the famous and the wannabe-famous. Politicians and journalists arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, bedazzled in the hopes of basking in a … Continue reading
ROLLING STONE: “Everything You’ve Been Told About Radicalization Is Wrong”
From Rolling Stone Magazine Despite the rhetoric, scary YouTube videos don’t turn people into terrorists By John Knefel May 6, 2013 5:05 PM ET If media accounts are to be believed, the accused Boston marathon bombers were “radicalized” by watching American-born … Continue reading
VIDEO: “Famous Pakistan Politician Imran Khan Injures Head After Falling at Rally”
From The Tribune (Pakistan) LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan suffered injuries as he fell off a lifter while being raised onto a stage, Express News reported on Tuesday. The election rally was being held in Gulberg, near Ghalib market. A few hours … Continue reading
SPORTS VIDEO: “Palestinian-American Muslim Football Player Drafted by New York Jets”
From HuffPost Live May 6, 2013 Oday Aboushi was drafted by the New York Jets, making him one of the first Palestinian-Americans to play in the NFL. Watch Story Below:
AP: “White Man Named Buford Rogers Arrested for Planning ‘Terrorist Attack’ in Minnesota”
From Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI believes authorities disrupted “a localized terror attack” in its planning stages when they arrested a man after converging on a western Minnesota mobile home that contained Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms, … Continue reading
NEWS: “Are Pakistan and Islam Really Inseparable From Each Other?”
From Deutsche Welle (Germany) At a time when the world was hoping to see a shift in Pakistan’s policies towards Islamism, its military chief Kayani made sure that nobody should be under any illusion. Pakistan and Islam can’t be separated, … Continue reading
VIDEO: “Muslim Cabdriver Allegedly Assaulted by Passenger Who Cited Boston Marathon Bombing”
From Washington Post By Joe Stephens and Justin Jouvenal, Published: April 30, 2013 An Army reservist and Iraq veteran who works as a cabdriver says a passenger he picked up early Friday at a Northern Virginia country club accused him of being a terrorist because … Continue reading
NEWS: “The Importance of Keith Ellison: A Patriotic American Muslim Congressman”
From The Minnesota Post By Joan Walsh | 04/30/13 Progressives loved seeing Rep. Keith Ellison smack down his GOP congressional colleague Peter King on “Meet the Press” Sunday, insisting that profiling Muslims in the wake of the Boston bombing is not only … Continue reading
MUSIC NEWS: “Wu-Tang Clan Member Plans to Record ‘Positive’ Album About Islam”
From The Guardian (UK) Wu-Tang Clan man says spiritual awakening in mosque made him want to explore his relationship with Islam on studio LP by Sean Michaels Wednesday 17 April 2013 10.19 EDT Ghostface Killah wants to make an album about … Continue reading
