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NBC NEWS: “We Are Not Brainwashed: American Female Converts to Islam Speak Out”
From NBC News By JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News When an American convert to Islam was revealed as the wife of the dead Boston bombing suspect, Lauren Schreiber wasn’t surprised at what came next. Comments from former acquaintances and … Continue reading
VIDEO: “Watch Average Americans ‘Meet A Muslim Person’ in New York City”
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TIME VIDEO: “Bassem Youssef Honors Jon Stewart During ‘TIME 100’ Acceptance Speech”
From TIME Magazine In 2001, Bassem Youssef was a surgeon who watched Jon Stewart in his free time. Now, as the Egyptian satirist said in his toast to Stewart at last night’s TIME 100 Gala, he and Stewart are often mentioned in … Continue reading
NEWS: “This Is What It’s Like to Be a Muslim in Boston Right Now”
From Gawker by Camille Dodero When Anum Hussain heard about the Boston Marathon bombing, she immediately panicked, worried that the culprits would be like her. The 22-year-old Muslim was in the offices of Hubspot, the Cambridge marketing-software company she works … Continue reading
NBC NEWS: “Boston Mosque Refuses to Bury Marathon Bomber in Islamic Burial”
From NBC News By Adrienne Mong, Correspondent, NBC News MAKHACHKALA, Russia — A Boston-area mosque has refused to hold a funeral for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead suspect in the attack on the Boston Marathon, his aunt said Wednesday. American authorities … Continue reading
MAGAZINE: “Here Comes the Post-Boston Marathon Anti-Muslim Paranoia”
From The Atlantic by ELSPETH REEVE The Tsarnaev brothers don’t provide an easy answer for how to stop something like the Boston Marathon bombing from ever happening again. We can’t go to war with their country of origin. The men were ethnically Chechen, … Continue reading
ABC NEWS: “Dalai Lama Pleads for Buddhist Monks to End Violence Against Burma’s Muslim Population”
From ABC News By MUHAMMAD LILA (@muhammadlila) DHARAMSALA, India, April 22, 2013 Amid a damning new report showing official Myanmar complicity in ethnically cleansing entire Muslim towns and villages, the world’s foremost Buddhist leader has a message to the Buddhist monks accused … Continue reading
NBC NEWS: “Muslims Helped Foil Alleged Canada Train Bomb Plot”
From NBC News By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News Muslims helped foil an alleged al Qaeda-backed plot to blow up a rail line between the United States and Canada, according to a community leader and police. The Royal Canadian … Continue reading
VIDEO: “Former Republican Congressman Says We Need to Profile Young Muslim Men”
From Mediaite Speaking out in opposition to immigration reform in the wake of the attacks on the Boston Marathon last week, former Rep. Joe Walsh(R-IL) told MSNBC host Martin Bashir that the Senate’s plan must be reconsidered in light of the fact that … Continue reading
NEWS: “Man Yells ‘F*ck You, Muslims!’ & Assaults Arab Muslim Woman with Headscarf in Boston”
From Raw Story A Muslim woman in Boston says that she was attacked by a white man on on Wednesday morning because he was apparently enraged by the Boston Marathon bombings and convinced, despite a lack of evidence, that the … Continue reading
