I’ve spent a great deal of time these past few weeks explaining why it is that I think that folks shouldn’t vote for either the Tea Party activist Kerry Bentivolio or the white supremacist Daniel Johnson in the race to represent Michigan’s 11th congressional district, but I haven’t really made the case as to why […]
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Syed Taj on the separation of church and state, going up against extremist conservative candidates, and running for the House of Representatives as a Muslim
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Affordable Care Act, Anybody but Thadeus, Canton, Canton Board of Trustees, charter schools, Dearborn Heights, Garden City, Grand Valley, Kerry Bentivolio, Libertarianism, Liberty for All, Lyndon LaRouche, Medicare, Muslim, Novi, Obamacare, outer space, Plymouth, political ads, public, Redford, redistricting, Republican lies, Romney, separation of church and state, Sharia law, social security, Syed Taj, Thaddeus McCotter 73 Comments
Tennessee Mosque Attack
I dont think there’s any way you can argue that there’s not a heightened anti-muslim sentiment in this country in the wake of the manufactured controversy over the so-called 911 mosque. Since the big protest in New York last week, I know of at least two violent attacks. First, there was the stabbing of New […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Observations, Politics Also tagged a wall of separation between Church & State, Ahmed Sharif, Andy Anderson, anti-Muslim violence, arson, ATF, Ben Goodwin, domestic terrorism, Evy Summers, fear mongering, freedom of religion, Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Sharia law, stabbing, tea party, Tennessee, terrorism, xenophobia 35 Comments
Racism at Ground Zero, and the role of FOX
There was apparently a big protest yesterday, around the corner from the site of the former World Trade Center. Crazed, middle-aged, white people, emboldened by the likes of FOX News and Sarah Palin, had taken to the streets to show their displeasure over plans to build a 13-story Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan. And, […]
Posted in Media, Other, Photographs Also tagged al Qaeda, al Qaeda magazine, Alwaleed bin Talal, anti-Muslim violence, Anwar al-Awlaki, Brian Fishman, burn a Koran Day, Evan F. Kohlmann, extremists, Flashpoint Global Partners, FOX News, ground zero, ground zero mosque, hypocrisy watch, Islamophobia, Jon Stewart, militants, mob mentality, Muslim, New America Foundation, racism, Rupert Murdoch, skull cap, Terry Jones, Under-Armour, violence on the extreme right 13 Comments