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It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day across the nation, and here in North Texas, Americans from all walks of life have taken advantage of the holiday to display their interpretation of the American civil religion, the one of a kind. It is a day of service as well as of commemoration of America’s history in the struggle for establishing justice and human rights.

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By Matt Coker
Nearly half of California’s Muslim students say they have been subjected to some form of bias-based bullying, according to a first-ever report released Thursday.

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Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day in the United States, a day when an icon of the fight against Jim Crow and for Civil Rights is remembered. For many however it’s just another holiday off, a reprieve from the regular grind of work and there is no real remembrance as such of MLK Jr.

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Gaffney: This is a really extraordinary thing, as you say the Southern Poverty Law Center has fallen dramatically from its past and is now in the service of people who are really the perpetrators of the worst of the anti-Semitism and hatemongering and so on.

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Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy were in the news recently due to the widely condemned slanders that he fed to politicians such as Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann about so-called “Muslim Brotherhood infiltration” into our government.

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By Elham Asaad Buaras
Civil rights and Muslim groups in the US are calling the firing of military leaders associated with provocative Islamophobic materials used in military training course.

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Tarek Mehanna, a twenty-nine year old American Muslim pharmacist, was sentenced a few days ago to 17.5 years of incarceration. Much has been said in the mainstream media about this young man, but few people have taken the time to go through Mehanna’s statements over the years to understand his world view and ideology.

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One of the most memorable moments in my life was when I was introduced to Dr. Martin Luther King.
I remember when I was an undergraduate student completing a homework assignment given to me by my professor.

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Leading the hearing were Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin and Ranking Member Sen. Lindsey Graham with witnesses ranging from Ast.Attorney General Thomas Perez to national faith leaders.

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(Via ComedyCentral)
The last thing Barack Obama did in 2011 was sign a bill that eliminates due process for anyone suspected of terrorism in America.