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Uproar Brews Over Moscow Mosque

'Clean Moscow' group wants Muslim-free city

(Newser) - New York isn’t the only city with a mosque controversy on its hands. Moscow’s 1.5 million Muslims say they desperately need a new mosque, but they’ve encountered local opposition from a group calling for a Muslim- and foreigner-free “clean Moscow,” Der Spiegel reports. These...

US Declares: Islam Is a Religion

Battle over Tennessee mosque gets more heated

(Newser) - In case you weren’t sure: Islam is a religion, not a political movement. The US Department of Justice officially pronounced it so in a Tennessee courtroom, the latest move in the uproar over a proposed Islamic center in that state. The worshipers of a mosque near Murfreesboro have been...

Vandals Slap Bacon on Islamic Center
Vandals Slap Bacon
on Islamic Center
Oct 13, 2010 11:03 AM CDT

Vandals Slap Bacon on Islamic Center

'Pig Chump' spelled out in pork

(Newser) - Police were called to a South Carolina Islamic center after worshipers found the words “PIG CHUMP” spelled out in strips of bacon on a tiled walkway. They believe it was placed there during a prayer meeting between 7am and 2pm on Sunday. For a second, everyone thought it was...

Campbell's Soup: Pandering to Muslim Terrorists?

New symbol showing dietary compliance irks some

(Newser) - Campbell’s Soup quietly put a Halal mark on cans of its soup that meet Islamic dietary requirements—and now there’s a Facebook group urging the world to boycott. The group, currently boasting 3,275 members, claims Campbell’s is using the mark “under the auspices of the...

4 Teen Bullies Charged With Anti-Muslim Hate Crime

14- and 15-year-olds accused of bullying, assaulting classmate

(Newser) - Four Staten Island teens accused of bullying a Muslim classmate are now facing hate crime charges, say New York City police. The Staten Island Advance says the incidents occurred from October 2009 to June 2010. Authorities say the bullies called the boy a "terrorist," frequently punched him in...

Franklin Graham: Islam is 'Wicked'
Franklin Graham: Islam is 'Wicked'
Sunday Show Roundup
Oct 3, 2010 12:44 PM CDT

Franklin Graham: Islam is 'Wicked'

Elsewhere: Bill Richardson says Dems are 'scared' of tea party

(Newser) - ABC’s This Week waded into some controversial waters today with a town hall discussion on Islam, and no one was more controversial than Rev. Franklin Graham (son of Billy), who called the religion “evil” and “wicked.” Quoth Graham: “They want to build as many...

Texas Board: Textbooks Have Pro-Islam Bias

Education officials want publishers to fix 'anti-Christian' tone

(Newser) - The Texas Board of Education issued a warning to textbook publishers today: It wants future social studies books to fix what it sees as a pro-Islam and anti-Christian bias, reports the Dallas Morning News . "What we're trying to do is prohibit and send a clear message to the publishers...

Muslims See More Workplace Discrimination

Even before mosque flap, Islamophobia was on the rise

(Newser) - A growing number of Muslims were reporting discrimination in the workplace even before the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” hysteria swept the country, the New York Times reports. In the year that ended last September, 803 Muslims filed federal complaints, with many alleging that co-workers had called them “Osama”...

Islamic States Want UN to Condemn Koran Burning

Resolution sees a worldwide problem

(Newser) - Pakistan and other Islamic states pushed for a resolution at the UN today to condemn a small-time US pastor's threat to burn the Koran, Reuters reports. Terry Jones' proposition is part of a pattern of "instances of intolerance, discrimination, profiling and acts of violence against Muslims occurring in many...

Newt's Doing a McCarthy Impression
Newt's Doing
a McCarthy Impression
Eugene Robinson
Sep 21, 2010 1:12 PM CDT

Newt's Doing a McCarthy Impression

Rants against sharia, 'stealth jihadis' are Red Scare-esque

(Newser) - Don’t you wish American judges would quit imposing harsh Islamic sharia law? Eugene Robinson, for one, thinks all these stonings and beheadings are really getting out of hand. Where did he get the crazy idea? “Why, Newt Gingrich told me,” he writes in the Washington Post . This...

Dear Muslims: 'I&rsquo;m Sorry'
 Dear Muslims: 'I’m Sorry' 
Nick Kristof
Sep 19, 2010 5:43 AM CDT

Dear Muslims: 'I’m Sorry'

American should be ashamed of anti-Muslim extremism

(Newser) - America has learned better than to make sweeping statements about Jewish people, Japanese Americans, and African Americans, so why, asks Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times , in the 21ist century is it OK to equate Muslims with terrorism? It's not, he says. Those who follow Islam are not a...

Middle School Mosque Field Trip Sparks Outrage

Video shows kids participating in prayers

(Newser) - A Massachusetts school district apologized today, after a video surfaced showing students praying during a class field trip to the Islamic Society of Community Center. The video was shot in May by a parent chaperoning the trip, and then handed over to a group that has long been critical of...

Paper: Sorry for Photo of Muslims Praying on 9/11

Many deride peaceful portrayal of religion on anniversary of attacks

(Newser) - The Portland Press Herald has apologized for having the temerity to show Muslims praying peacefully on September 11th. The upbeat frontpage story followed local Muslims as they celebrated the end of Ramadan, which this year fell near the anniversary of the terror attacks (for details, click here ). These worshipers,...

Mosque Developer Owes Rent
Mosque Developer 
Owes Rent
Sep 15, 2010 6:30 AM CDT

Mosque Developer Owes Rent

Man behind Cordoba House evicted from Manhattan office

(Newser) - The developer behind the not-quite-at-Ground Zero mosque is being evicted from his office space over back rent. Sharif El-Gamal, who runs Soho Properties from an office at 552 Broadway in Manhattan, is said to owe $39,000 in back rent, reports the Daily News . El-Gamal, whose rental agreement expires October...

French Senate Bans Islamic Veils in Public

Measure still faces review by nation's constitutional judges

(Newser) - The French Senate voted near-unanimously to ban wearing burka-style Islamic veils in public today, the BBC reports. The measure must still past muster with the country's Constitutional Council, but unless those judges raise objections, it will become law in 6 months. The Senate confirmed the measure by a vote of...

Martin Peretz: I Apologize for Slam on Muslims
Martin Peretz: I Apologize
for Slam on Muslims
OPINION
Sep 13, 2010 4:39 PM CDT

Martin Peretz: I Apologize for Slam on Muslims

'I wrote that, but I do not believe that'

(Newser) - New Republic editor Martin Peretz set off a furor earlier this month when he wrote of Muslims: "I wonder whether I need honor these people and pretend they are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment, which I have in my gut the sense that they will abuse....

Islamophobia Is the New McCarthyism
 Islamophobia Is the 
 New McCarthyism 
OPINION
Sep 13, 2010 12:21 PM CDT

Islamophobia Is the New McCarthyism

We're going after the 'enemy within'

(Newser) - With anti-Muslim sentiment and racist fears about President Obama at an all-time high, America is experiencing “the worst spasm of paranoia and bigotry of the post-Cold War age,” Peter Beinart writes in the Daily Beast . And we can look to the “red scares” of the last century...

This Bigotry Is Not America
 This Bigotry Is Not America  
Nick Kristof
Sep 12, 2010 5:43 AM CDT

This Bigotry Is Not America

Hate only helps jihadis, Kristof says

(Newser) - Once in a while, Americans forget what makes them American and descend into bigoted craziness, writes Nicholas Kristof for the New York Times , noting our "shameful" internment of Japanese during WWII. And now with the editor of the New Republic openly questioning whether Muslims deserve First Amendment rights and...

'Man Who Divided Germany' Forced Out of Bank

Author steps down under "massive pressure"

(Newser) - The author of a new book that is critical of Muslim immigrants and speculated about a "specific gene" that "all Jews share" has resigned from the board of Germany's central bank, Bundesbank, under "massive pressure." Thilo Sarrazin, the " man who divided Germany ," resigned just...

Pastor Might Call Off Koran Burning if Obama Calls Him

Meanwhile, another pastor plans smaller burning

(Newser) - Terry Jones says he might reconsider his plan to burn Korans on 9/11—if he gets a call from President Obama. Jones says no one from the White House or Pentagon has contacted him, but that if anyone did "that would cause us to definitely think it over,"...

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