Islam

Which NYC Mayoral Candidates Think Spying on American Muslims is Unconstitutional?

On Sunday afternoon, seven mayoral hopefuls gathered for a forum co-hosted by the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) and the Islamic Center at New York University. Community organizers hailed it as an historic moment. Nearly three weeks after the Boston bombings--and in the heat of the de ... More >>

Muslim Hunting: David Horowitz's Antagonistic Career

Smear Machine

Pamela Geller's War

Eleven years ago, Pamela Geller declared war on savages who were trying to take over the world. This November, she admits she lost.

Neo-Nazis Next Door? Here's a List of New York's Hate Groups

When details began emerging about the Oak Creek, Wis. massacre, reports indicated that the suspected shooter, Wade Michael Page, was a white supremacist and had played in a neo-Nazi band called "End Apathy." The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, had been keeping tabs on Page s ... More >>

Tea Party Nut Wants To Recall John McCain Because He Doesn't Think Huma Abedin Is A Terrorist

As you may have heard, failed GOP presidential candidate/Minnesota Congresswoman/fagala-phobic madwoman Michele Bachmann has launched a McCarthy-esque witch hunt into several Muslim employees of the federal government whom she decided could potentially be working as spies for Islamist terrorist grou ... More >>

Newt Gingrich Defends Michele Bachmann's Terrorist Witch-Hunt Into Huma Abedin

Call us crazy (read: rational), but we're gonna go ahead and assume that Hillary Clinton aide/wife of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, isn't a Muslim Brotherhood operative who's infiltrated the highest levels of government -- including marrying a once-powerful New York congressman -- ... More >>

Islamophobia in the Great Plains: Kansas Governor Bans Shari'ah Law

Does anyone remember Sam Brownback? He was part of the failed bastion of Republicans who ran for President in 2008 (how long ago does that feel?), along with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee. Except Brownback didn't even make it to the primaries. Instead, he backed do ... More >>

'Minimal Wave Release Party' w/ Veronica Vasicka+Peanut Butter Wolf

NYPD Spying On Muslims: Yay Or Nay?

​As you may know, the New York Police Department has received millions of dollars from the federal government over the past decade to basically spy on Muslims living in New York. The goal, of course, is to prevent terrorist attacks on the Big Apple. If you're unaware of the NYPD's under-the-r ... More >>

Author Asra Q. Nomani on Why the NYPD Should Spy on Muslims

Runnin' Scared wrote yesterday about Asra Q. Nomani, a Muslim-American author who wrote a Daily Beast op-ed defending the NYPD's decision to spy on entire Islamic communities. Nomani, who co-directs the Pearl Project and is the subject of a documentary about Muslim feminism, thinks the cops' spy sch ... More >>

Author Asra Q. Nomani: The NYPD Should Spy on Muslims

As the fallout over NYPD's Muslim spying scheme continues -- even prompting Chicago's top cop to pledge against blanket monitoring of Islamic communities -- some have taken a drastically different approach to the issue. While Mayor Mike Bloomberg has defended the NYPD's controversial practices, Asr ... More >>

All-American: Dearborn's Young Arabs Take to the Field in Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football

Whole Foods Backpedals Over Ramadan, But Stops Short of Canceling It

​Whole Foods would like everybody to know that, contrary to what its internal company email says, it is not capitulating to a small but loudmouthed band of racist xenophobes who demanded the grocery store not promote Ramadan.

France's Burqa Ban Goes Into Effect; Two Women Are Arrested

​In the fall of last year, France's Senate overwhelmingly passed a law banning the wearing of the Islamic full veil in public. That law went into effect today, with two veiled women arrested soon after -- not for wearing the garments but for participating in an unauthorized protest, reports CN ... More >>

Happy Eid al-Adha! A Guide to Where Not to Buy Halal Meat (NSFV - Not Suitable for Vegetarians)

Keeping an eye on Eid ul-Fitr​Happy Eid ul-Fitr Eid al-Adha! Last night marked the beginning of Eid, the three day festival celebrating the end of the Ramadan month of fasting in the Muslim world celebrating the end of Hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca. We stopped by our local halal market last night ... More >>

Gourmet Sweets and Restaurant Spreads Its Treats to Queens

Unlike the Midwood original, a full-fledged restaurant for Jackson Heights

Bronx Mosque Suspends Request to Amplify Call to Prayer; Residents Remain Unsympathetic

​A Bronx mosque that had sought a sound permit to amplify its morning call to prayer has quietly rescinded its application. But the Jame Masjid mosque's revocation of the proposal didn't hush its neighbors, since the mosque plans to resubmit its request to play the undulating ribbon of Arabi ... More >>

Post Claims NYPD "Bungled" Terror Raids, Tipped Off Imam

When the Joint Terrorism Task Force enlisted the NYPD to help set up the raids on three Queens homes that went off on Monday, they expected them to "slyly contact their list of sources and informants," claims the New York Post. Instead the cops canvassed the suspects' old haunts and "flashed around ... More >>

The Alarming Record of the F.B.I.'s Informant in the Bronx Bomb Plot

Taliban in Lipstick: Jihadis Posed for Rather Gay "Passport Photos"

In December 2001, just after the American invasion, Magnum Studios photographer Thomas Dworzak arrived in Afghanistan. The Taliban had banned all photography that showed people: such images, they said, were prohibited by the Koran. There was one exception to the rule: men (and only men) were allowe ... More >>

Guantanamo's Final Days

The infamous Prison Camp ain't dead yet

Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? The US Can't Decide about Bangladeshi Immigrant Sachin Karmakar

Welcome to America, freedom fighter. Now go stuff yourself.

U.S. Ends Afghan Hostage Crisis

Puzzling Struggle in A Jihad for Love

Doc investigates gay Islam

Presley Termed Whirling Dervish By Village Pastor

Meet Rudy Giggliani

Our Man Sietsema: 'Hey, Walima, Why No Lamb?'

Forget the Future? Not on 9/11.

The Wit and Wisdom of Bernie Kerik

Dome and Doomer

Out of the Loop, Six Years Too Late

Slow Noose Day: 'Visa Loophole' Lets Colored Brits into U.S.

Marcher: 'I'm Left With Nothing'

The Cartoons Conspiracy

The story behind the story of the furor over the Muhammad cartoons

Morning Report 11/20/05
We've Been Had — by Hadley

Morning Report 8/31/05
Stampede in Baghdead

Morning Report 7/5/05
The 'Unusual Mission in Iraq'

Show of Farce

The press digs itself into holes; the government covers up its own errors—the system at work

Chaos Theory

The Day I Became a Martyr: Islam Protest Brings Fatal Fatwa

Classified Info

A Rumi of One’s Own

Novelist Pico Iyer Navigates the Spirit Level

The Emir and His Lieutenant

Al Qaeda’s Bosses Exploit Arab Desperation Using Islam as Their Calling Card

Talking Jihad

Three Views of One War

Your Neighbor, the Terrorist

'Sleepers,' Fresh Targets, and the Taliban's Favorite Charities

Hate Crimes

Like the Taliban, America’s Middle East Allies Tyrannize Gays and Women

The New Terrorism

How the Cold War and Its Aftermath Fueled Islamic Militancy

Slimed!

The Politics of Dancing

'Farrakhan Jews'

Anti-Zionist Hasidim in Landmark Meeting With Nation of Islam Leader