Posts Tagged ‘Muslim’

New report highlights growing American xenophobia

South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), a nationally prominent advocacy organization, released a new report this week called “From Macacas to Turban Toppers: The Rise in Xenophobic and Racist Rhetoric in American Political Discourse.” The report collects more than 70 xenophobic statements...

November 1st, 2010 | Politics, US | Read More

Why we sued to represent Muslim cleric Aulaqi

Anwar Aulaqi is a US citizen and Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen. The US has put him on our terrorist list and is trying to assassinate him. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU filed suit today so we can be pro bono lawyers for his father, Nasser Aulaqi, to stop the government...

August 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Is America a Christian nation?

Speaking from the heart of the Muslim world in Turkey’s Cankaya Palace in April 2009, President Barack Obama answered the question with the nuance that has come to characterize his public statements: America, he declared, is “a predominantly Christian nation” but “we do not consider ourselves...

July 31st, 2010 | Featured, Politics | Read More

Backslide in America’s “National conversation on race”

Last week, the so-called national conversation on race was dominated by voices that would roll back the Civil Rights Movement. First, there were loud calls for an end to the basic religious freedoms of Muslim Americans. Then, a firestorm surrounded false charges of “reverse racism” involving Shirley...

July 27th, 2010 | Featured, Politics, Talk About Race, US | Read More

The Veil: Does it protect Muslim women or subjugate them?

By Karina Tayag The Qur’an says that the purpose of women wearing the veil was so that they may be identified and not harmed. The Muslim veil is referred to as the hijab or niqab. Wikipedia defines hijab as “both the head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women and modest Muslim styles of dress...

June 8th, 2010 | Middle East, Women | Read More

Assassination of US Muslim cleric illegal immoral and unwise

Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue this is illegal, immoral and unwise. Assassinating Awlaki in the US would be murder, a capital crime, punishable...

May 11th, 2010 | Politics | Read More

Not just Guantanamo: U.S. torturing Muslim pre-trial detainee in New York City

Today in New York City, the U.S. is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial. Syed Fahad Hashmi For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pre-trial isolation inside in a small cell under 24 hour video and audio surveillance....

April 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Politics | Read More

Looking ahead to 9/11/2011: The time for national healing begins now

In mid-February, people around the country marked the National Day of Remembrance to acknowledge the impact of Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of 120,000 Japanese American citizens and residents during World War II on the basis of their national origin and ethnicity. It has been over...

March 4th, 2010 | Featured, South Central/South Asia | Read More

Facing the Other: Challenging Islamophobia within the South Asian community

In the nearly 10 years since September 11, progressive writers of color have written a great deal about Islamophobia and the U.S. wars against majority Muslim countries. A lot of this commentary has centered on white mainstream politics and the U.S. government’s flawed response to 9/11 encompassing...

March 3rd, 2010 | Featured, South Central/South Asia | Read More