Minnesota Independent

Anti-Muslim group calls for Ellison’s removal from committee

By Andy Birkey | 10.07.10 | 9:33 am

A group called Americans Against Hate has started a campaign to get Rep. Keith Ellison removed from the Congressional Task Force on Anti-Semitism and is ramping up pressure on Rep. Ron Klein, D-Fla., who chairs the committee. Americans Against Hate says it will protest Klein until he removes Ellison from the committee. The group’s founder, Joe Kaufman, made the claim in 2008 that Ellison would be grand marshal of a New York Muslim parade. That charge proved untrue.

Minnesota’s faithful plan event to counter uptick in anti-Muslim rhetoric

By Andy Birkey | 09.17.10 | 1:35 pm

Some of Minnesota’s largest faith organizations are planning an event to counter a recent rise in anti-Muslim sentiment following controversy over a planned Muslim community center in New York City and threats of Koran-burnings by fundamentalist Christians. The event will…

Feds to investigate anti-Muslim activity at Minnesota schools

By Andy Birkey | 05.26.10 | 11:07 am

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating anti-Muslim activities at public schools in Owatonna and St. Cloud, according to the Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Recent…

Minnesota judicial races: Evangelical Supreme Court candidate tells anti-Muslim correspondent ‘We speak the same language’

By Andy Birkey | 10.22.08 | 1:07 pm

Deborah Hedlund, a candidate for the Minnesota Supreme Court, received an anti-Muslim email from a campaign vendor, Matt Look, that said, “Can Muslims Be Good Americans?” the Pioneer Press reports. The email continued, “Perhaps we should be suspicious…