The Islamophobic Fringe

Posted by on Oct 1, 2012 in Articles, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is a convicted conman. He knows almost nothing about Islam and even less about filmmaking. And yet, thanks to the power of the Internet and the tense relationship between the West and Islam, Nakoula has generated a major international scandal with Innocence of Muslims, believed to be his lowbrow, low-budget movie. The YouTube clip, which produced protests in Libya that...
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Creating the Muslim Manchurian Candidate

Posted by on Mar 31, 2012 in Articles, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments Those who fervently believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim generally practice their furtive religion in obscure recesses of the Internet. Once in a while, they’ll surface in public to remind the news media that no amount of evidence can undermine their convictions. In October 2008, at a town hall meeting in Minnesota for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, a woman called Obama “an...
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Three Killings

Posted by on Mar 28, 2012 in Articles, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments The note left next to the bloodied body of Shaima Alawadi read “go back to your country, you terrorist.” Alawadi, who died on Saturday after being taken off life support, was an Iraqi-born mother of five living outside of San Diego. Someone had delivered a similar note to the family earlier in the month. It was likely the same person who returned with a tire iron and struck her repeatedly on...
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America’s Image Problem

Posted by on Feb 28, 2012 in Articles, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments The United States definitely sends mixed messages to the Muslim world. Early in his presidency, Barack Obama went to Cairo to “seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition.” The president proclaimed that America...
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Running Against Islam

Posted by on Feb 27, 2012 in Articles, Featured, Islamophobia | 8 comments Every political season has its hot-button issues. There’s race, abortion, lunar colonies. But the hottest hot-button issue these days, judging from comments by Republican presidential hopefuls as well as what happened during the 2010 mid-term elections, is Islam. Islam dominated the headlines during the summer of 2010. Remember Terry Jones and his pledge to burn the Qur’an? Or those...
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All-American Bigotry

Posted by on Jan 12, 2012 in Articles, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments Islamophobes would like you to believe that they’re not anti-Islam. They’re only anti-Islamic extremism. So why is it that Islamophobes are always going after mainstream Islam? They lampoon Muhammad. They want to burn not the writings of Osama bin Laden but the Quran itself. They target an Islamic community center in downtown New York City that’s the brainchild of an interfaith...
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