Tag Archives: Muslim

Does this safety pin make you feel unwelcome or unsafe?

By Mark | November 15, 2016

After Trump’s victory of last week, as incidents of racial intimidation started to become more commonplace across the United States, some on the left began wearing safety pins as a sign of solidarity with members of those communities most at risk that. [This practice, for what it’s worth, was borrowed from British progressives, who began […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged #NotMyCampus, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim violence, Brexit, bullying, crime, Donald Trump, England, false equivalence, fascism, hate, hijab, Muslim women, racial intimidation, safety pins, slashing, University of Michigan, violence, white nationalism | 107 Comments

A warning from “the ghetto of Hamtramck”: Beware the Muslim, Uber-hacking human trafficking ring

By Mark | August 24, 2016

As Detroit social media seems to be going crazy over this Facebook post, I thought I’d share it here so those of you who have been banned from social media could weigh in. It’s a wild story, and the online debate it’s given rise to about whether or not the young woman who posted it […]

Posted in Detroit | Also tagged anti-Islam, fear, Hamtramck, human trafficking, Kelly's Bar, Matt Luke, Ryan Lochte | 31 Comments

What does it say about our society when even our priests are proudly declaring that they’re prepared to dispense lethal force?

By Mark | April 22, 2015

Ann Arbor Catholic priest Ed Fride is in the news today for encouraging his parishioners at Christ the King Catholic Church to arm themselves. In a letter sent out this past weekend to his flock, Fride explained why he carried a weapon, and why the church would likely be hosting more CPL classes on their […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged "cling to guns or religion", anti-Muslim violence, Ave Maria, Ave Maria College, Catholicism, Christ the King, Citizens Alliance for Life and Liberty, Columbine, CPL, Dearborn, druggies, Ed Fride, Father Gabriel Richard High School, Floyd Dent, gun rights, gun violence, guns, guns in schools, Inkster, Jay McNally, Josh Wade, Joshua Wade, Mayberry, mixed metaphors, pacifism, paranoia, police violence, priests, pro-life, racism, rape, rape fantasy, religion, threats, threats of violence, Tom Monaghan, toto, Vietnam, Word of God | 38 Comments

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

By Mark | October 14, 2012

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 […]

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, Islam, Kerry Bentivolio, Libertarianism, Liberty for All, Lyndon LaRouche, Medicare, 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

Tomahawk chops, war whoops, and the bubbling racism at the heart of Scott Brown’s Senate campaign

By Mark | September 26, 2012

I thought, a few days ago, in their first televised debate, when Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts said of his opponent, Elizabeth Warren, “professor Warren claimed that she is a Native American… a person of color… and, as you can see, she’s not,” that we’d reached the nadir of this campaign. I was proven wrong […]