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New House Homeland Security Committee chair has history of anti-Muslim comments During a 2016 tea party meeting, Mark Green told an audience that he didn’t want public school students in Tennessee to learn about the Islamic faith.

January 12, 2023 Rowaida Abdelaziz

(HuffPost) Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) is set to lead the House Committee on Homeland Security, which Muslim civil rights groups say is alarming because he has a history of making Islamophobic remarks. Green — a physician, Iraq War veteran and former GOP […]

Muslim group claims tip of Nashville bomber would’ve been taken more seriously if he wasn’t white

December 31, 2020 Stassy Olmos

(WKRN) The American Muslim Advisory Council in Tennessee is calling out law enforcement after the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville, saying the tip warning them in 2019 would have been taken a lot more seriously if the suspect had not been white. […]

House speaker appoints activist called ‘anti-Muslim’ to Tennessee textbook commission

November 25, 2020 Meghan Mangrum

(Tennessean) Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton’s recent appointment of long-time activist Laurie Cardoza-Moore to the Tennessee State Textbook Commission is already garnering backlash from some community members. On Tuesday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization — called on […]

Tennessee closer to allowing high school athletes to compete wearing religious headwear

November 13, 2020 Angela Dennis

(Knoxville News Sentinel) Muslim athletes in Tennessee may soon be able to wear a hijab during competition without prior approval following votes this month at the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association regional meetings to allow student-athletes to wear religious headwear during competition. […]

After athlete was disqualified for wearing hijab, Nashville school seeks rule change

September 18, 2020 Mike Organ

(Tennessean) Valor College Prep officials are calling on the National Federation of State High School Associations and the TSSAA to alter a uniform rule after one of its athletes was prohibited from participating in a volleyball match because the Muslim student was wearing a […]

Memphis Muslims sign up to vote as part of national registration drive

August 25, 2019 Katherine Burgess

(Commercial Appeal) On a Friday afternoon after prayers, 17-year-old Haneen Jaber filled out a form on the patio of the Muslim Society of Memphis. About to turn 18, Jaber was registering to vote. “A lot of the things that are going on […]

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