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  • johnpi 8:20 am on January 21, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    American prejudice against Muslims, Islam higher than bias against other major faiths.

    Americans are more than twice as likely to express prejudice against Muslims than they are against Christians, Jews or Buddhists, a new survey found. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they have little or no knowledge of Islam. Still, a majority dislike the faith.
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    Personally knowing a Muslim is not linked to a lower level of prejudice, although not knowing a Muslim is related to the greatest level of bias. The authors of the report say this finding underscores the need for better education on what Islam teaches.

     

  • johnpi 4:37 pm on November 9, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Muslim Mafia author explicitly calls for “a professional and legal backlash against the Muslim community and their leaders.”

    In assigning collective blame for the Fort Hood killings, Gaubatz said:

    Politicians, Muslims, and law enforcement are concerned about a ‘backlash’ against Muslims. Now is the time for a professional and legal backlash against the Muslim community and their leaders. Muslims know what materials are being taught in their mosques and they know many of the materials instruct young Muslims to kill innocent people who do not adhere to Sharia law. If Muslims do not want a backlash, then I would recommend a “house cleaning.” Stack every Saudi, al Qaeda, Pakistani, Taliban, Hamas, and Muslim Brotherhood piece of material from their mosque and have a bonfire. Tell the American, Jewish, and Muslim community this hatred will no longer be allowed in their mosques.

    As TPM notes, all of this might be dismissed as the ranting of a fringe lunatic, but for the fact that Gaubatz’s work has been circulated and endorsed by prominent Republican lawmakers.

     

  • johnpi 4:46 pm on September 28, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    Texas: 11th Congressional District candidate calls for end to Muslim immigration.

    Big Country congressional hopeful Canyon Clowdus wants no more Muslim immigration to America. But he doesn’t want to stop at the stance he outlined to radical blog “Dr. Bulldog and Ronin,” which endorses him for 11th Congressional District representative.

    “It’s not just them,” the conservative Republican told a reporter Sunday night. “They need to check all immigrants. They used to assimilate.”

    Instead, immigrants retain their beliefs, hurting America, Clowdus, a Marble Falls businessman, said.

    Clowdus wants to halt Muslim immigration to stop what the blog termed a “stealth Jihad” and “creeping sharia” to replace the Constitution with Islamic religious law.

    Clowdus’ motto: “Let’s put God back in government!”

    Clowdus’ campaign website seems to say that George Washington wasn’t very bright, but he was a good man, and it’s the same diff’ for Clowdus.

    George Washington was not elected our first president because he was a “mental giant” as Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin were considered to be, but because he was a “moral giant“. Many of our elected officials simply do not want to act on the taxpayers best interest in fear of making enemies, in turn, not getting re-elected. We need leaders in Washington that will fight without concern of re-election or any loss to themselves. Fight for what is right…fight as “moral giants“ for OUR great nation.

     

  • johnpi 3:31 pm on September 9, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    A Fox news local station that broadcasts in the southern Alabama/ Florida panhandle area will be airing a hit piece tonight on the Muslim Student Association, using Omar Hammami as its jumping off point. Hammami was president of the MSA at the University of Southern Alabama right after 9/11.

     

  • johnpi 8:22 pm on August 21, 2009 | 9 Permalink | Reply
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    Judge rules Fathima Rifqa Bary must stay in Florida “until the Florida Department of Law Enforcement can find out whether her family’s home is safe.”

    Bary is the teen who ran away from her Muslim family in Ohio to live with a preacher in Florida, and who claims her family may kill her for converting to Christianity. The case has prompted an Islamophobic political frenzy.

    Before the hearing, Rifqa and her lawyers met with George Sheldon, secretary of Florida’s Department of Children & Families, the agency now in charge of her safekeeping.

    He sat through the 50-minute hearing next to Gov. Charlie Crist’s top lawyer, Rob Wheeler.

    “I have one concern. The governor has one concern,” Sheldon said afterward. “That’s the safety of the child.” Sheldon and Wheeler, sitting shoulder-to-shoulder, demonstrated the extraordinary amount of attention the case has drawn. It has prompted a flood of support for the girl and a backlash against Islam.

    More than 400 people have sent e-mails to Crist demanding that he save the girl from what some describe as certain death. Crist has made no public statement — but Friday other politicians began to weigh in.

    Bary’s lawyer, an evangelical Christian activist, couldn’t resist smearing the entire Muslim community of Columbus, Ohio.

    Stemberger told the judge Rifqa’s father wasn’t the real threat. It’s radical Muslims in Columbus, where the family lives, he said. The community is a center for suspected terrorists, he said, and Rifqa is now their target.

     

  • johnpi 7:42 am on July 6, 2009 | 9 Permalink | Reply
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    Glenn Greenwald: What if the Uighurs were Christian rather than Muslim?

    Thoughts on reports of rioting in Western China today:

    Just imagine if the Uighurs were a Christian — rather than Muslim — minority, battling against the tyrannical Communist regime in Beijing, resisting various types of persecution, and demanding religious freedom. They would be lionized by America’s Right, as similar Christian minorities, oppressed by tyrannical regimes, automatically are. Episodes like these — where a declared Tyranny like China violently acts against citizens with whom we empathize — are ones about which, in general, the American political class loves to sermonize.

    But the Uighurs are Muslim, not Christian, and hostility towards them thus easily outweighs the opportunity they present to undermine the Chinese Government.

     

  • johnpi 1:39 pm on June 8, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Making the rounds among those in the US who mock right-wing Islamophobic stupidity, is this comment from Michael Goldfarb, editor at the Weekly Standard:

    It seems there is some legitimate confusion on just what languages Obama speaks, and as far as Arabic, the only real hint has came from Nick Kristof, who heard Obama recite the Muslim call to prayer in Arabic and with a “first-rate accent” back in 2007. With even the White House now smearing Obama as a Muslim, one wonders if the president hasn’t been concealing some greater fluency with the language of the Koran.

    The Cunning Realist writes:

    This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder what disasters we would have stumbled into by now had McCain won. The linguistic sleuth presumably would have been just a few feet from the Oval Office.

     

  • johnpi 12:02 am on February 2, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Pajamas Media, a right-wing media company which had a startup business model of “aggregating blogs to increase corporate advertising,” is going out of the blog business April 1st.

    PM’s stable of right-wing blogs were an echo chamber for freaky Islamic conspiracy theories such as secret Islamic symbols hidden in US monuments and the pernicious dawah doll that reportedly says “Islam is the light” (but not when I’m in the room). US Islamophobes just lost a major ally and will likely lose some on-line voices.

    In honor of PM’s demise, here’s one last look at a theory that purports to show that Islamists mock American manhood and declare the superiority of Muslim masculinity.

     

  • johnpi 1:11 am on January 12, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    Raving Islamophobia watch – In the recent US presidential election the absurd depths of Islam fear in the US were on display for all to see. Leftwing satirist Patriotboy mines this subpopulation of the American rightwing for an endless supply of raw material. What has the Islamophobic movement been up to since the election?

    • The official blog of MAMA (Mom’s Ask Mattel for Accountability), the group started to crusade against pro-Islam baby dolls that some imagine say “Islam is the light,” is still going strong. I visited the website myself and discovered that they are branching out into coverage of other issues in Islam. They had blog posts on Aqsa Parvez, Sarah and Amina Said and an AP article on an “ad hoc” abortion performed in a cattle shed in Afghanistan. Patriotboy purchased a dawah doll from Wal-mart to investigate for himself and he reports, “it uttered one of the most anti-Semitic phrases I think I’ve ever heard: “collective punishment is a war crime.””

    • Patriotboy has been teasing several of the rightwing pajama media blogs for losing out miserably to their leftist counterparts in the 2008 Weblog awards. He singles out the blog called “Nicedeb” for extra attention:

    It’s hard to believe you and The Anchoress are losing (you, very badly) in the Weblog Awards voting. After all, your 52 part series exposing the use of Islamic symbols in the Flight 93 Monument and your hard hitting investigative report into children’s dolls that make Islamic_statements are examples of some of the finest blogging I’ve ever seen.

    So I went to her blog and found that yes, there apparently is a movement of some 90-plus back bencher rightwing blogs that are opposing the current design of the Flight 93 monument because they believe it is a secret, Mecca-oriented giant Islamic crescent on the landscape with other Islamic symbols embedded within. (Flight 93 was one of the hijacked 9/11 planes.) The conspiracy theorists have produced two videos of about 10 minutes length each, both of which have been oddly set with Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Western background music, which makes for amusing mental illness theater.

     

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