Islam

After yesterday’s Star Tribune piece on Rep. Keith Ellison’s pilgrimage to Mecca late last year, the 5th District Democrat is firing back, asking the paper for a correction in a letter to the editor today. The Strib article by Kevin Diaz reported that the congressman’s trip was paid for by the Muslim American Society of [...]

An underground railroad has emerged in Iraq since the start of the United States’ occupation, as Muslim fundamentalists torture, maim and murder LGBT people in that country, The Manchester Guardian’s Peter Tatchell reports.
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, homophobia and the terrorisation of LGBT people has got much worse. The western invasion of Iraq in [...]

Rep. Keith Ellison visited Qatar University’s College of Sharia and Islamic Studies over the weekend to discuss the relationship between the United States and the Islamic world, the Gulf Times reports. Qatar is a tiny country on the Arabian Peninsula.
“The political picture is bright, not perfect, but we are ready to expand the dialogue and [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota filed suit Wednesday against Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy and the Minnesota Department of Education alleging a violation of the separation between church and state. TIZA was at the center of a media storm last year after the Star Tribune’s Katherine Kersten wrote an inflammatory commentary alleging religious instruction at the taxpayer-funded school. ACLU-MN investigated the allegations and in court documents filed in U.S. District Court said the Muslim organizations from which TIZA leases its space are illegally benefiting from the leasing arrangement.

Rep. Keith Ellison’s pilgrimage to Mecca last month was paid for by a group a Fox News “terrorism expert” calls “the Muslim equivalent of the neo-Nazi party.” But said expert neglected to reveal two things: the group’s high praise from the likes of Walter Mondale and the Minnesota Council of Churches and his own extreme — and sometimes factually challenged — views on Muslim groups.

On Sunday Colin Powell spoke strongly against his party’s slandering of Islam. This kind of thing is happening at McCain’s campaign events too. Here’s video from the American News Project of a McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia, where McCain supporters denouncing Barack Obama as a Muslim are confronted by a man who introduces himself as [...]

Al Jazeera English recently traveled to Ohio to ask voters to share thoughts on Sen. Barack Obama. What they found were wildly inaccurate and often racist beliefs about the Illinois Democrat:
“I’m afraid if he wins, the black will take over.”
“He’s not a Christian. This is a Christian nation!”
“He must support terrorists.”
“I’m concerned Obama and his [...]

To counteract the “undermin[ing] of American civilization” and the “embolden[ing] of Islamic extremists” hell-bent on the “Islamicization of America” that’ll result from taking an oath on the Qu’ran, Keith Ellison need only do one thing, said Dennis Prager in this debate with CAIR’s Nihad Awad:

“All I’m asking is for Keith Ellison to bring a bible [...]

Before he became the nation’s first Muslim elected to Congress, Democrat Keith Ellison was called “unfit” for Congress by his Republican opponent. And that was just the beginning.

Ellison is setting yet another precedent in January when he takes the oath of office on the Koran, Islam’s holiest book, an event that evoked conservatives to accuse [...]