Moonlight's Mahershala Ali: anti-Islam prejudice 'not a shock' if you have grown up black
The GuardianMahershala Ali discusses the intersections of race and religion in the context of post-9-11 America, where racism and Islamophobia are both on the rise.
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Muslim-American activists raise more than $20,000 in 2 hours to repair vandalized Jewish cemetery
The WeekLinda Sarsour and Tarek el-Messidi started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a vandalized Jewish cemetery in St. Louis. The two activists desired to send a message of solidarity in the face of hate and discrimination.
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Trump's revised immigration order expected to renew ban on 7 Muslim-majority countries
ABC NewsThe Trump administration has begun drafting a new Executive Order (EO) designed to pick up where the previous EO left off. Despite the legal opposition, the administration continues to assert that these orders fall within powers given to the office of the President.
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‘Every person deserves to rest in peace': American Muslims raising money to repair vandalized Jewish cemetery
The Washington PostTarek el-Messidi explains the sense of obligation he felt to help those who were affected by acts of antisemitism during the Trump administration.
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Islamophobia grows louder in North Carolina: 'Can we not kill them all?'
The GuardianA far-right, racist group, Act for America, has met in Kernersville, NC to discuss ways to respond to an imagined threat of “shariah law” in the United States. The group was heard suggesting extermination as a solution among other hateful suggestions.
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CAIR calls for FBI investigation of Kernersville talk about killing Muslims
Triad City BeatThe Council on American-Islamic Relations has urged federal and local officials to respond to the above mentioned Kernersville, NC meeting of Act for America, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center calls an “extremist group.
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Will America's Oldest Muslim Community Survive President Trump?
Rolling StoneMuslims in Cedar Rapids, Iowa respond to the changing attitudes towards Islam and Muslims in an increasingly hostile environment in America. Cedar Rapids is one of the oldest Muslim communities in America.
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Muslims Shouldn’t Have To Be “Good” To Be Granted Human Rights
BuzzfeedSara Yasin, a writer for Buzzfeed shares her story of being Muslim in America and discusses the danger of grouping all Muslims together.
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New Atheism's Islam-obsessed rape and rescue fantasy
Middle East EyeCJ Werleman diagnosis the attitude of the “New Atheists” and their pathological dislike of religion and Islam, a dislike that links them, much to their chagrin, with conservative, right-wing organizations.
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Meet Frank Gaffney, the anti-Muslim gadfly reportedly advising Donald Trump’s transition team
The Washington PostFrank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, is reportedly advising the Trump transition team. Gaffney is known for his spurious claims and use of unscientific, skewed data to denigrate Islam and Muslims.
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H.R. McMaster Breaks With Administration on Views of Islam
The New York TimesTrump’s new national security advisor, H.R. McMaster, breaks with his predecessors by insisting on a distinction between Islam and radicalism, eschewing the use of “radical Islamic terrorism” as a useful term.
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I Am a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Not a Terrorist
The New York TimesGehad el-Haddad, the official spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood, shares why the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t a terrorist group, but a “morally conservative, socially aware grass-roots movement that has dedicated its resources to public service for the past nine decades.”
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China orders drivers to fit GPS trackers to their cars so Muslims can be monitored using central computer
MirrorChina’s Xinjiang region has ordered every motorist to install a GPS in their car in an effort to increase surveillance on the Uighurs, a Muslim group the government says is being radicalized by foreign jihadists.
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I Was a Muslim in Trump's White House
The AtlanticRumana Ahmed, former deputy National Security Advisor under President Barack Obama, shares her experience of working for the Trump administration and why she ultimately left.
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Views of Islam and extremism in the U.S. and abroad
PEW Research CenterAccording to a PEW Research poll, most Americans think there is little to no support for extremism among American Muslims.
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