New Striking PSA's Feature Muslims Affected by 9/11
Written by Administrator
Saturday, 04 September 2010 07:15
A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today launched a national public service announcement (PSA) campaign featuring Muslim 9/11 first responders and designed to challenge the growing anti-Muslim bigotry in American society.
See the most stirring of the ads below.
The PSA campaign is also designed to offer an implicit challenge to the Florida church that plans to burn copies of the Quran, Islam's revealed text, on September 11. Two of the messages which will be distributed to television stations nationwide and online through social media sites, feature Muslim first responders to the 9/11 terror attacks, with the theme "9/11 happened to us all." Copies of the PSAs will also be mailed to selected television stations, with a focus on stations in New York and Florida.
Last Updated on Saturday, 04 September 2010 07:42
Tennessee Mosque Future Site Burned. Police Say :Arson!
Written by LUCAS L. JOHNSON II and TRAVIS LOLLER
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 07:46
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — A suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee has some local Muslims worried that their project has been dragged into the national debate surrounding Manhattan's ground zero.
Authorities told leaders of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro that four pieces of heavy construction equipment on the site were doused with an accelerant and one set ablaze early Saturday morning. The site is now being patrolled at all hours by the sheriff's department.
An image of the burned equipment.
Federal investigators have not ruled it arson, saying only that the fire was being probed and asked the public to call in tips. Eric Kehn, spokesman for the Nashville office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said arson is suspected.
The site has already seen vandalism, said Joel Siskovic, a spokesman for the FBI in the Memphis office. A sign at the site was spray-painted with the words "Not Welcome" and then torn in half. The FBI is investigating the fire in case it is a civil rights violation.
Hell No you can't pray! NY residents refuse Muslims as neighbors.
A church may be a church, and a temple a temple, but through the prism of emotion that still grips many New Yorkers almost a decade after 9/11, a mosque can apparently represent a lot of things.
In the last few months, Muslim groups have encountered unexpectedly intense opposition to their plans for opening mosques in Lower Manhattan, in Brooklyn and most recently in an empty convent on Staten Island.
Web A-Buzz With Controversy Over 'Draw Muhammad Day'
Written by Matthew Shaer
Thursday, 20 May 2010 04:15
Facebook is no stranger to protests. But the protest that ripped through Facebook today may be the strangest – and the most pitched – to date. Here's a primer: Last month, under fire from Muslim groups in the US and abroad, the television network Comedy Central agreed to censor an episode of South Park that showed the Prophet Mohammad in a bear suit.
One of the many responses to the controversial draw day.
That didn't sit well with the Seattle-based artist Molly Hill, who created a cartoon lampooning Comedy
European Democracy excludes right to Islamic dress.
French legislators have passed a resolution asserting that face-covering Muslim veils are contrary to the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity on which France is founded.
The non-binding resolution which passed 434 to 0 on Tuesday, lays the groundwork for a planned law forbidding face-covering veils in public, including in the streets.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”
