Trump Says ‘Islam Hates the U.S.’, but Why Do Americans Hate Islam?
Source: Haaretz By Haroon Moghul; Author of The Order of Light and How To Be a Muslim: An American Story. Public speaker. Broadcaster. Essayist. It’s hard to keep track of all […]
The ugly truth about Muslims: they have great frittata recipes
Source: The Guardian The Muslims have come for New York City’s subway system in a coordinated attack affecting 144 stations across the borough. Authorities were alerted to the plans of […]
New York’s Muslims struggle to bury their dead
Source: AlJazeera New York, US – Ahmet Kargi, 40, rolls up his sleeves, revealing a tattoo on his right arm – a white crescent and star inside a red shield. “It’s […]
Donald Trump says “Islam hates us,” but a nine-year-old says “Many Muslims are kind”
Source: RNS By Tobin Grant A data-driven conversation on religion and politics. He is a political science professor at Southern Illinois University and associate editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. “Many Muslims are kind.” That’s how my son ended our conversation yesterday as I dropped him off […]
Texas festival apologizes after Muslim Olympian told to remove hijab
Source: RNS (Reuters) Organizers of the South by Southwest (SXSW) arts festival have apologized to U.S. Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad after a volunteer said she must remove her Muslim headcovering to […]
Presidential Candidates Say Trump Set Tone for Violence at Rallies
Source: Time The violence at Donald Trump’s rally in Chicago Friday is rippling through the political world, with his Republican and Democratic rivals saying the GOP front-runner is responsible for creating the charged environment where protesters and supporters clashed for hours. “Donald Trump has created a toxic environment,” said Ohio […]
US election 2016: What does ‘Islam’ think of America?
Source: BBC “Islam hates us,” Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said in a CNN interview. on Friday. Mr Trump later stood by his claim in a televised debate in Miami, saying: […]
US election 2016: Obama warns against campaign anger
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama has warned White House contenders to avoid raising tensions, a day after a rally by Donald Trump was called off amid clashes. Mr Obama […]
Clinton: The divisive rhetoric & encouragement of violence we’re hearing from Donald Trump isn’t just wrong—it’s dangerous
The divisive rhetoric and encouragement of violence we're hearing from Donald Trump isn't just wrong—it's dangerous.https://t.co/RMWoqHNU5u — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 12, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Column: Trump’s Chicago rally and freedom of speech
Source: Chicago Tribune Rose Hamid is a middle-aged Muslim who in January went to a Donald Trump rally in Rock Hill, S.C. Wearing a hijab and a T-shirt with the […]
Trump is getting out the Muslim vote
Source: RNS By Aysha Khan (RNS) Salim Jaffer moved to the U.S. when he was 14 years old. His family, along with the rest of the Indian community, had been expelled from […]
The North Face Just Destroyed Trump’s Simplistic Opinion On Jobs
Source: Huffington Post Donald Trump has a lame excuse for outsourcing the production of his clothing brand. The North Face, meanwhile, is proving that it’s possible to keep business local. […]
More than One-Third of US Innovators Are Immigrants
Source: Voice Of America More than one-third of U.S. innovators are foreign born which suggests highly educated immigrants just might be one of America’s most valuable resources. Despite only making […]
When Your Friends Don’t Believe in God
Huff Post: by Kevin Wright – (Kevin Wright currently serves as the Minister of Education at The Riverside Church in the City of New York). A lot of my friends don’t believe in God. I don’t mean “acquaintances” or Facebook friends, but my actual — call you up on a […]
Group: Trump should apologize for saying ‘Islam hates us’
Source: Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A leading Muslim civil rights group is calling on GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump to apologize for his claim that “Islam hates us.” […]
Muslims Sue Over Denial of Bid to Build Mosque in New Jersey Suburb
Source: The New York Times In a prosperous New Jersey suburb about an hour west of Manhattan, a retired AT&T executive decided with some friends to open a mosque in the […]
Trump says Islam hates us; but, the Holy Quran says …
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times “I think Islam hates us,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, deploring the “tremendous hatred” that he said […]
The media loved Marco Rubio’s defense of Islam. GOP voters? Probably not so much.
Source: The Washington Post Marco Rubio has taken a lot of heat in the press for allowing Donald Trump to drag him into the gutter — a mistake even he has said he regrets — so journalists naturally applauded the Florida senator’s tonal reversal in Thursday’s Republican presidential debate […]
US election 2016: Trump and Rubio row over Islam ‘hate’
Source: BBC Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio has attacked Donald Trump for saying that Islam hates America, in a televised debate in Miami. Mr Rubio, who faces a do-or-die contest […]
The Racialization of Religion Began Long Before Today’s Islamophobia
Huff Post: One of the most prevalent talking points in the 2016 election cycle is the role of religion, and the in-grouping and outgrouping that political figures are using to describe America. While Donald Trump’s comments about banning Muslims from entering the country have drawn the most criticism, the racializing […]