Tag Archives: Islamophobia

Seeing in the Boston bombing though the filter of preexisting prejudice

By Mark | April 16, 2013

I wasn’t going to comment on yesterday’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing until more of the facts were known, but, as I’m sitting here tonight, reading the analysis of folks like Alex Jones, who thinks that it was an inside job perpetrated by the government, and Fox News contributor Erik Rush, who thinks that it’s clearly [...]

Posted in Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Atlanta, bombers, bombs, Boston, Boston Marathon, conspiracy theories, Erik Rush, false flag, FOX News, mass murder, Oklahoma City, Olympic bombing, patriot movement, Patriots' Day, Richard Jewell, Taliban, terrorism, Time Square, Timothy McVeigh | 72 Comments

Protecting us from the nonexistent threat of Sharia Law, putting guns in classrooms, restricting reproductive health care access for women, and resurrecting an Emergency Manager law that the people of Michigan have already said no to… these are the new priorities of our legislators in Lansing

By Mark | December 13, 2012

Do you remember, a week or so ago, when we were discussing the anti-abortion omnibus bill (HB 5711), often referred to in the national press as “the country’s most restrictive anti-abortion bill“? Well, it passed the Michigan Senate today, and, after a quick trip back to the House, where a few edits need to be [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Politics | Also tagged 5711, abortion, ALEC, Emergency Financial Manager Act, Emergency Manager, HB 5711, Michigan House of Representatives, Michigan Senate, personal property tax, Proposition 1, reproductive justice, Senate Bill 865, Sharia law, women's rights | 36 Comments

Trying to reason with people on the existence of moderate Islam

By Mark | September 22, 2012

A few days ago, in a thread about the killing of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens a conservative Christian reader of this site, who goes by the name EOS, proclaimed definitively, “There is no such thing as moderate Islam regardless of how much we might wish it were so.” When confronted with facts, and asked to [...]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al-Takeyya, Ansar al-Sharia, anti-American, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic, Benghazi, Chris Stevens, Doug Skinner, Islam, jihad, Juan Cole, Kol Nidre, Libya, lying, moderate Islam, Mohamed al-Magariaf, radical Islam, Robert Spencer, Salafis, sodomy, xenophobia | 76 Comments

Racism at Ground Zero, and the role of FOX

By Mark | August 22, 2010

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, Islam, 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

Ground Zero bullshit

By Mark | August 16, 2010

I want to write something tonight about the so-called “ground zero” mosque. I say so-called because it’s actually a few blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood, but that doesn’t seem to deter people, even on the left, from calling it the “ground zero” mosque, like it’s a giant mosque being built triumphantly [...]