Source: YouTube By: Sarah A. Harvard Source: Mic A man was caught on camera disrupting an Arab American family reunion last week in South Padre Island, Texas, with a nearly five-minute anti-Muslim rant riddled with racial slurs and shouts about Donald Trump and the Islamic State terrorist group. According to BuzzFeed News, Alexander Downing of Waterside, Connecticut, accosted 14 people, including … Continued
By: Nadia Abuelezam Source: The Huffington Post I was always visible as a young child. I was a big girl. I was 4-6 inches taller than my peers throughout elementary school and even into middle school. I was recruited to play elementary school basketball a full year ahead of the minimum age restriction. My hairy … Continued
Blessed Trinity Catholic School By Christopher Mathias The Huffington Post The Catholic diocese of Orlando, Florida, says it has reprimanded a teacher at a Catholic school in the state for giving his sixth-grade religion class an anti-Muslim reading assignment. Mark Smythe, a religion and social studies teacher at Blessed Trinity Catholic School in Ocala, gave … Continued
By Luz Lazo The Washington Post A young Latina who came to the aid of a Muslim couple who were being verbally harassed by a passenger aboard a crowded New York City subway train is being praised for standing up for the pair. In a video that has gone viral since it was posted last … Continued
By Dave Hutchinson NJ Advance Media for NJ.com In defending a lawsuit by a Palestinian-American teacher who alleges she was fired because of her race, national origin and religion, Hunterdon Central Regional High School is claiming that “Palestine is not a nation,” according to the teacher’s attorney. The defense was recently raised in court during hearings … Continued
By William Lee The Chicago Tribune Nearly a year after their family was removed from a flight at O’Hare International Airport, a Muslim couple from the north suburbs filed a federal lawsuit against United Airlines, claiming they were discriminated against based on their faith. Attorneys with the local chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations filed … Continued
By Mark Hicks The Detroit News Plymouth’s longtime city clerk has abruptly left her position amid an investigation into her alleged online message this week that drew ire from activists. City officials were probing the comments Linda Langmesser reportedly posted on the Conservative Daily’s Facebook page, referring to a recent Atlantic piece authored by Rumana … Continued
By Carol Kuruvilla The Huffington Post After much pressure, President Donald Trump finally conceded this week that the rise in anti-Semitism around the country “has to stop.” But some American Muslims are wondering ― does the president have our back, too? Since Trump entered the White House, mosques have been vandalized and even set on fire, a prominent … Continued
By Laurel Thomas Gnagey Medical Xpress Acts of discrimination against Arab-Americans are associated with psychological stress, with an impact 4-5 times larger for men than women, a University of Michigan researcher has found. The findings result from responses gathered two years after the 9-11 terror attacks, but Shervin Assari of the U-M School of Public … Continued
By Hasheemah Afaneh The Huffington Post “Don’t speak Arabic here.” That was one of the first pieces of advice I received when I moved back to the United States after spending years in the Middle East, and it’s a sentence that tends to ring in my ear very often. I did not hear it from an … Continued
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali, The Milli Gazette Online This story best reflects the dilemma of the seven-million-strong Muslim American Community during the presidential election year. The year 2016 was perhaps the worst year for American Muslims since 2001 . The New York Times pointed out: Hate crimes against American Muslims have soared to their highest … Continued
By Samantha Vicent Tulsa World A Tulsa County judge has received a competency evaluation report on a Tulsa man who is charged with murder and a hate crime in the shooting death of his neighbor, but he has not yet ruled on the defendant’s competency. Stanley Vernon Majors, 62, was not set to appear in … Continued
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