I may be wrong, but, a few years ago, when I interviewed Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Senior Fellow Mark Potok about the activities of hate groups across Michigan, I don’t believe his organization, which monitors the activities of some 892 extremist groups across the United States, had identified any in our immediate region that […]
Tag Archives: Islam
The new hate group next door… Ann Arbor’s American Freedom Law Center makes the SPLC “hate group” list
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties Also tagged American Freedom Law Center, anti-Islam, David Yerushalmi, hate, hate groups, Islamophobia, lawfare, racism, right-wing extremism, Robert Muise, Shariah, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC 15 Comments
Reza Aslan on looking for the real Jesus, the threat of fundamentalist literalism, and making white heads explode
If you spend any time at all on the internet, you likely saw a video making the rounds yesterday of religious scholar Dr. Reza Aslan repeatedly defending his decision to write a book about the life of Jesus to Fox News host Lauren Green, who clearly felt as though the subject should be off limits […]
Posted in Other, Uncategorized Also tagged Albinus, Ananus, Buddha, Ceasar, Christianity, Festus, FOX News, God, Jerusalem, Jesus, Josephus, Judaism, King David, Lauren Green, messiah, Palestine, religion, Reza Aslan, Rome, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth 9 Comments
Syed Taj, Muslim candidate for Congress, subjected to outrageous racist attacks
Last week, when I noticed that the American Medical Association (AMA) had started taking out television ads in support of our friend Syed Taj, I knew that racist attacks from the right were inevitable. The AMA ads signaled to me that the race was close (as the AMA doesn’t invest in races that aren’t winnable), […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged AMA, American Medical Association, attack ads, Birthers, CAIR, Canton, Canton Board of Trustees, conspiracy theories, Council on American Islamic Relations, election fraud, fear mongering, Fowlerville High School, Freedom's Defense Fund, Hammas, House of Representatives, Jerome Corsi, Kerry Bentivolio, Michigan's 11th congressional district, political ads, Santa Clause impersonator, Swiftboating, Syed Taj, Thaddeus McCotter, Todd Akin 28 Comments