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Mosque Badly Vandalized, but Imam Unsure of Hate Motive
04 days ago
by Bill Morlin
in Anti-Muslim
A mosque under construction near Washington, D.C., was extensively damaged by vandals last weekend, but a regional imam said today there’s no indication yet that the vandalism was a hate crime.
“It seems at this point that the vandalism was done by intoxicated individuals,” regional imam Yahya Luqman said of the damage done last weekend at [...]
Pam Geller Announces New International Anti-Muslim Effort
02 weeks ago
by Heidi Beirich
in Anti-Muslim
Anti-Muslim zealot Pam Geller announced this week the formation of a new international organization, Stop the Islamization of Nations (SION), for which she will serve as executive director. This “new global force” will merge the work of the two major anti-Muslim groups in the U.S. and Europe – Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), run [...]
Alabama Anti-Shariah Bill Penned by Key Islamophobe
03 weeks ago
by Leah Nelson
in Anti-Muslim
An Alabama state senator plans to introduce a constitutional amendment that would ban state courts from looking to Islamic Shariah law in adjudicating cases, Hatewatch has learned.
Republican Senator Cam Ward pre-filed the “American and Alabama Laws for Alabama Courts Amendment” with the state Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 4.
The amendment’s language is clearly drawn from [...]
An Islam-Bashing Bridge Too Far? Not for Pam Geller
03 weeks ago
Pam Geller, the Muslim-hating propagandist behind the Atlas Shrugs website, is at it again. Even as U.S. officials recoil in horror, the woman whose blog once suggested that President Obama is the “love child” of Malcolm X is celebrating a video that appears to show U.S. soldiers urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
“CAIR has [...]
Lowe’s Facing Backlash for Pulling Ads from Pro-Muslim Reality Show
01 month ago
by Marilyn Elias
in Anti-Muslim
Avoiding controversy was the stated aim when Lowe’s, the home improvement giant, bowed to pressure from a Florida evangelical group by pulling its ads from a TV reality show that makes Muslims look like ordinary Americans rather than terrorists.
But now the chain’s act of enabling bigots has boomeranged into a black-eye controversy, a PR nightmare: [...]
Lowe’s Refuses to Reinstate Ads on Pro-Muslim TV Show
01 month ago
by Marilyn Elias
in Anti-Muslim
Amid mounting criticism, home improvement giant Lowe’s Cos. Inc. is sticking by a decision to pull its ads from the TV reality show “All-American Muslim,” caving to pressure from the Florida Family Association, a conservative evangelical group that boasts it has persuaded more than 60 companies to cancel their ads too.
The weekly show on TLC [...]
Internet Evangelist: Glenn Beck is a ‘Wolf of Satan’
01 month ago
by Leah Nelson
in Anti-Muslim
Even stopped clocks are right two times a day, so why can’t hate group leaders be half as accurate?
Internet evangelist Bill Keller, head of the anti-Muslim, anti-gay, anti-Mormon hate group Bill Keller Ministries, spoke the truth exactly once in a press release issued yesterday. Exhorting Christians not to follow Glenn Beck, he observed that the former Fox News entertainer “views himself as a modern day Paul Revere or Moses,” and makes money – “mostly from gullible Christians” – by scaring them into “buying gold, safes, and food insurance.”
Truer words were never spoken – unfortunately, they were spoken by a lunatic.
Israeli Prime Minister To Address Liberty Counsel’s ‘The Awakening’
02 months ago
The Liberty Counsel has announced the lineup of speakers for next year’s national conference, and it’s a marquee of far-right luminaries. Prominent figures of the anti-Muslim movement will rub shoulders with the anti-gay religious right. Christian dominionists will hang out with hard-line constitutionalists. And, of course, the prime minister of Israel will speak, too.
That’s right. [...]
FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate Violence
02 months ago
Anti-Muslim hate crimes soared by an astounding 50% last year, skyrocketing over 2009 levels in a year marked by the vicious rhetoric of Islam-bashing politicians and activists, especially over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York City.
Although the national statistics compiled by the FBI each year are known to dramatically understate the real level [...]
Facing Controversy, Anti-Muslim Preacher Tones Down Criticism
02 months ago
by Ryan Lenz
in Anti-Muslim
DETROIT — The only thing more noticeable than Lou Engle saying he was going to pray that Muslims would have “dreams of Jesus” during his marathon 24-hour prayer gathering over the weekend in Detroit were the efforts he undertook to show that he was all about sensitivity to minorities.
From the American Indians dancing in full-feathered [...]