Pamela Geller behind “racist” NYC subway ads
The New York Times reports that a series of advertisements went up in ten New York subway stations which read “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.” The ads...
View ArticleInformant paid to “bait Muslims”
In an article published in The Boston Globe, Adam Goldman of the Associated Press reports that Shamiur Rahman, a 19-year old American of Bangladeshi descent, was paid as much as $1,000 a month by the...
View ArticleWaging Jihad with a visa?
Joe Palazzolo of the Wall Street Journal reports that according to a criminal complaint, before allegedly making plans with an FBI informant to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank 21-year old...
View ArticlePamela Geller’s new anti-Islam ad campaign
Senior Editor Krystina Friedlander sat down with islawmix expert and University of Toronto associate professor of law, Mohammad Fadel, to discuss a new anti-Islam advertising campaign sponsored by the...
View ArticleWoman is charged with murder as a hate crime for fatal subway push
Marc Santora at The New York Times reports that 31-year-old Erika Menendez has been charged with murder as a hate crime after allegedly pushing Sunando Sen, the owner of a small coping business in New...
View ArticleSpying on law-abiding Muslims
A motion filed in federal court last week by lawyers in the long-standing Handschu case may force courts to intervene on the NYPD’s policy of spying on law-abiding Muslims, The International Herald...
View ArticleIslam and internet marriages
Sarah Maslin Nir at The New York Times reports that internet marriages are becoming increasingly common in US immigrant communities “where people are seeing to marry partners from their homelands...
View ArticleThe Struggle for Jihad
In The New York Times, Poh Sl Teng examines the ongoing “battle” in the U.S. to define the word “jihad” — a conflict of words being fought on public subway and bus ads between right-wing conservatives...
View ArticleBattlefield Mosque: Patriotism, Space and Faith in American Mosques
Last week, in the first part of our series on Muslim-American religious spaces, we briefly explored the history and function of mosques. As the piece discussed, mosques were not just places of ritual...
View ArticleThe horrifying effects of NYPD ethnic profiling on innocent Muslim Americans
Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic writes that a new report documenting the compiled testimonies of New York Muslims describes “the concrete ways” the NYPD’s clandestine spying program “has caused...
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