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Muslim Group Vows to Stop Gaga Concert

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:28:57 CDT

Conservative Muslims' latest holy war is being waged against Lady Gaga and her Indonesia tour. The extremist Islamic Defenders’ Front (FPI) accuses Gaga of promoting devil worship, and has vowed to mobilize 30,000 protesters to intercept her at the Jakarta airport so she can't perform next month at the...

Allen West Slams Muslim-Friendly FBI Manual Edits

Matt Cantor — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:13:40 CDT

The FBI's purging of Islamaphobic references from its training manual puts us on the road to "cultural suicide," according to Florida Rep. Allen West. "We have to understand when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide," he said on Fox News, adding that "we should not...

Media Makes Excuses for Robert Bales

Kevin Spak — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:45:52 CDT

When US media outlets speculate on Robert Bales' motives for killing 16 Afghan civilians, they say he had financial and family problems, had served multiple tours of duty, saw a friend's leg blown off, etc. But when Muslims kill Americans, their motives are clear: "they are primitive, fanatically religious, hateful...

Egypt's Coptic Christian Pope Dead at 88

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:22:14 CDT

Egypt's Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III has died of natural causes at age 88 after leading his community through four decades of quiet expansion, al-Jazeera reports. A religious leader of some 8 million people—about 10% of Egyptians—Shenouda was a fighter for Coptic rights in his early years but...

US Home to 74% More Mosques Since 2000

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:55:47 CST

Even as protests against new mosques got quite a bit of attention, their numbers in the US grew from 1,209 in 2000 to 2,106 in 2010, USA Today reports. And most of the leaders of those Islamic places of worship believe America is not hostile to Islam, according...

NYPD's Muslim Surveillance Used White House Funds

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:48:42 CST

The NYPD's controversial Muslim surveillance programs were funded in part by millions of dollars directly from the Bush and Obama administrations, the AP reports. Since the 9/11 attacks, $135 million has been provided through the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program (HIDTA), which hands out grants, under the watch of...

Newark to Probe NYPD Muslim Spying

Kevin Spak — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:11:20 CST

When the AP showed Newark Mayor Cory Booker a file detailing the extent to which the NYPD's " Demographics Unit " had spied on his city's Muslims, he was caught off-guard. "Wow," he said. "This raises a number of concerns." Soon after, he said he'd launched an investigation. "We're going to get...

More Than 1K NYPD Cops Trained With Anti-Muslim Film

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:24:17 CST

Not one, not two, but at least 1,489 NYPD officers viewed an anti-Muslim film during their training, the New York Times reports in a disturbing look at The Third Jihad . The film, funded by a nonprofit group, features images including Muslim terrorists shooting Christians and a doctored photo of...

4 Firebombs Hit Muslim Targets in NYC

Matt Cantor — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:26:09 CST

Four homemade firebombs went off in New York last night in what police believe to be anti-Muslim hate crimes. No one was hurt. Three of the Queens attacks used molotov cocktails made using Starbucks bottles; targets included a bodega, two houses, and a major Islamic center, the New York Times...