NYPD’s new spying outrage: Innocent Muslims treated worse than guilty bankers|
MARCY WHEELER
When “Arabic-sounding” names are automatically suspicious — but financial crimes are ignored — here’s the result
“The True American”: The hate-crime victim who pleaded for his attacker’s life|
On Sept. 21, 2001, Rais Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi immigrant, was working in a gas station minimart in Dallas when a burly man with tattoo-covered arms walked up to the counter and pulled out a shotgun.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the dangerous anti-Islamic logic of the war on terror|
t’s been over a week since students at Brandeis compelled their university to refuse Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree, and the blogosphere is still roiling with grievance. Kirsten Powers laments Islam’s preferential treatment in USA Today.
Coca-Cola’s multilingual Super Bowl ad is driving Twitter xenophobes crazy|
by ELIAS ISQUITH
Coca-Cola’s big Super Bowl ad this year featured a rendition of “America the Beautiful” sung in multiple languages, alongside sweeping images of America’s landscape and its people.
“Homeland” has a Muslim problem|
“Homeland” has, or more precisely, has had, a lot to recommend it. The show’s depiction of Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) and his conflicted feelings about America and its role in the world — and the actions he took against America in the show’s early going — were among the most realistic depictions of the contemporary state of villainy available on TV.
CIA, DoD had doctors torture detainees after 9/11|
In a new report that makes contextualizes the torturous force-feeding of Gitmo hunger strikers, it has been revealed that under CIA and DoD orders, doctors tortured terror suspects to gain intel after 9/11.
Sam Harris slurs Malala: Famed atheist wrongly co-opts teenager’s views|
In an era of narcissistic self-obsession, there’s something to be said for the value of self-awareness. This week, atheist philosopher Sam Harris leapt forward to claim Malala Yousafzai as another trophy in his one-man jihad against Muslims and the weak-kneed “Muslim-apologists” he perceives on the left.
Salon.com: Our Founding Fathers included Islam|
[He] sais “neither Pagan nor Mahamedan [Muslim] nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion.” — Thomas Jefferson, quoting John Locke, 1776
Myanmar Muslims hide amid deadly sectarian clashes|
BY KHIN MAUNG WIN
THANDWE, Myanmar (AP) — Terrified Muslim families hid in forests in western Myanmar on Wednesday, one day after fleeing a new round of deadly sectarian violence that erupted even as the president toured the divided region.
NYPD Muslim spying under new scrutiny in federal court|
BY NATASHA LENNARD
Along with the development of the NYPD’s “mini-CIA” after 9/11 came the shift towards constitution-defying preemptive policing.
