Accepting Islam

Americans’ growing support for free speech doesn’t include racist speech

Washington Post: Americans tend to pick and choose who should be afforded civil liberties to some degree, a centuries-old issue that has flared up once again after a video of racist chants by University of Oklahoma fraternity brothers went viral. The university’s president David Boren last week expelled two students filmed making the racist chants. […]

Italy moves to block 'anti-mosque' laws

Aljazeera: The Italian government has moved to block new building regulations for Lombardy, the country’s most populous region, which would make it virtually impossible to build any new mosques there, officials said. The regulations, which have become known as “anti-mosque” laws, were approved by the right-wing dominated regional council at the end […]

Italy moves to block ‘anti-mosque’ laws

Aljazeera: The Italian government has moved to block new building regulations for Lombardy, the country’s most populous region, which would make it virtually impossible to build any new mosques there, officials said. The regulations, which have become known as “anti-mosque” laws, were approved by the right-wing dominated regional council at the end […]

New Atheism: The Mother Lode of Bad Ideas

Patheos.com: March 13, 2015 by Qasim Rashid  Mere hours after condemning the murder of three Muslim students at Chapel Hill last month, notorious anti-theist Richard Dawkins happily returned to spreading falsehood and hatred of Islam, tweeting, “Alas, criminal individual killers exist. But there’s only 1 ideology now that preaches the […]