(Politico) Dozens of candidates, almost exclusively Republicans, have run campaigns this election cycle casting their opponents as national security threats with ties to terrorism. But according to a new study, it won’t help them win. “It is a losing strategy,” the 51-page […]
(FrontPage) Since the 2016 election Democrats have centered their activism around opposition to President Trump. This furious enmity may have overshadowed some Democrats’ friendliness toward Islamic terrorists, and for the Democrat running in California’s 50th district it’s a family affair. “Palestinian-Mexican” Ammar […]
(NY Times) In this congressional district just east of San Diego, a Christian Democrat, Ammar Campa-Najjar, has been portrayed by his Republican opponent as an Islamic terrorist sympathizer. The same allegation has been tossed at Democratic candidates in Ohio and New Jersey, […]
(Hill) A California Democrat hit back at President Trump’s eldest son on Thursday after Donald Trump Jr. accused the candidate of links to extremist groups through the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights group. Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Democrat running […]
(Washington Times) Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour on Friday launched a racial attack against Sen. Susan Collins, saying the Maine Republican was guilty of espousing “white supremacy” with her decision to support the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Ms. Sarsour, […]
(Religion News) Larycia Hawkins never questioned what she should do. It was days after the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, in which 14 people were killed at a center for people with developmental disabilities. Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump seized upon the religion of the […]
(NY Times) The Trump administration vowed to fight “radical Islamist” militants, as well as Iran, as part of a multifront campaign to eliminate the terrorist threat to the United States, according a long-delayed counterterrorism strategy released on Thursday by the White House. […]
(MPR) When President Trump first announced restrictions on travelers from Muslim countries, Fardousa Jama attended a rally at a Mankato coffee shop. She was there with other community activists who were trying to come up with a way to respond to the […]
(Times of San Diego) Attorney General Jeff Sessions “better” be fired after the November election. Rod Rosenstein, his apparent lame-duck deputy, has been part of a “coup” since before Donald Trump’s election. The president’s border wall has “nothing to do with illegal […]
(VOA) A very late election night victory rally in Michigan for candidate Rashida Tlaib on Aug. 7, followed a week later by an election night victory rally in Minnesota for candidate Ilhan Omar, marked an inflection point in American politics. The two, […]
(Fox) Google is in the spotlight after internal emails show conversations between employees highlighting a desire to manipulate search results on the heels of President Trump’s controversial travel ban in order to mute conservative viewpoints and push ways to combat the ban. […]
(Hill) Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Tuesday went after the Trump administration for its failure to consult with Congress before proposing to slash the number of refugees the U.S. will accept next year. Grassley, who’s chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the […]
(Politico) The Trump administration will admit no more than 30,000 refugees to the U.S. in the coming year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, down from the current cap of 45,000. Pompeo announced the lowered ceiling during a press conference Monday at […]
(Hill) Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Donald Trump Jr. on Sunday sparred over Rep. Keith Ellison’s (D-Minn.) association with Louis Farrakhan. “Is it that he’s black or that he’s Muslim that makes you hate/fear him so much?” Pocan asked Trump Jr. on Twitter after […]
(Detroit Free Press) The week before Donald Trump was inaugurated last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a Lebanese-American group in Dearborn $500,000 as part of a government effort to counter violent extremism known as CVE. The department also gave […]
(Washington Post) Eighteen former counterterrorism officials are urging the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to retract or correct a report that implies a link between terrorism and immigration, calling its findings “misleading” and counterproductive. Released in January, the report says that […]
(Detroit News) The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, advocacy groups and separated families are renewing a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order barring travelers from some countries with majority Muslim populations. The amended complaint filed Thursday in Detroit’s U.S. […]
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(Reuters) Military officials are sounding the alarm inside the Trump administration about the sharp drop in admission to the United States of Iraqi refugees who have helped American troops in battle, said two U.S. officials aware of the internal discussions. The Pentagon […]
(AP) The head of the Democratic Party insisted Wednesday that allegations of domestic abuse against his second-in-command would not hurt his party ahead of this fall’s midterm elections. Yet four days after the first public accusation of physical and emotional abuse emerged […]
(AP) President Donald Trump, meet Ilhan Omar. Just two years ago, the Minnesota Democrat became the first Somali-American elected to a state legislature. Now she’s likely to become one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. And she says one […]
(PJ Media) According to CNN, 100 or more newspapers will publish editorials attacking President Trump on August 16. Meanwhile, Minnesota’s largest newspapers — along with every other mainstream outlet in the country — just whiffed on covering this: signed, notarized court documents […]
(IPT) MUSIAD USA sent letters to several U.S. senators last week protesting sanction[s] the Trump administration’s imposed on Turkey over its continuing detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson. MUSIAD is a businessmen’s association connected with Turkey’s ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party […]
(Hill) A report from the Council [on] American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) showed “anti-Muslim bias incidents” in California surged 82 percent in 2017, during President Trump’s first year in office. The report from CAIR California says the group received complaints of 2,259 “anti-Muslim bias incidents” last year, […]
(ABC) Born and raised in Detroit, Fayrouz Saad has always been proud of her Lebanese heritage. “My parents moved from Lebanon and started a halal meat shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market,” she said. “I’m a product of their American Dream. I want […]
(WFTS) Security officers escorted a local activist out of President Trump’s campaign event in Tampa Tuesday night. “We came in and wanted to voice our concerns on different topics he was actually touching on,” said Aida Mackic. Mackic is the Interfaith and […]
(Hill) The Trump administration is facing the first legal challenge to its travel ban on nationals from five Muslim-majority countries following the recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the ban. Muslim Advocates, Lotfi Legal LLC, the Immigrant Advocacy & Litigation Center PLLC and Public […]
(Hill) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday compared President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies to “a jihad.” Cuomo, who is facing a challenge from the left in his campaign for reelection in November, drew the parallel during a visit to Puerto Rico. “This administration is on […]
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(Washington Examiner) President Trump’s belief that immigration is “changing [the] culture” of Europe is wrong, the European Union’s ambassador to the United States said Friday. “Europe is not going to become a Muslim continent any time soon,” Ambassador David O’Sullivan said at […]
(Religion News) When Imam Arjan Abu Sa’ad turned on the news to see reports of toddlers being pulled from their families and detained in cages after crossing the U.S. border, he was shocked. “I never thought I would see that in America,” he […]
(Reuters) A representative of U.S. President Donald Trump raised the case of jailed British anti-Muslim activist Tommy Robinson with Britain’s ambassador to the United States following lobbying by the right-wing Breitbart.com website, according to a British government source and a pro-Robinson campaigner. […]
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(AP) President Donald Trump’s lament this week that immigration is “changing the culture” of Europe echoed rising anti-immigrant feelings on both sides of the Atlantic, where Europe and the United States are going through a demographic transformation that makes some of the […]
(Washington Post) The mayor of Hagerstown, Md., apologized Wednesday for his Facebook comments that upset many residents by referring to London’s mayor as a “terrorist.” Sadiq Khan is the first Muslim elected mayor of the city of London. He approved protesters’ request […]
(Washington Times) The Muslim Brotherhood still poses a significant global threat and ought to be officially designated a terrorist group by the Trump administration, a trio of experts told Congress on Wednesday. The Islamist group has long been a polarizing force in […]
(Orlando Sentinel) The state’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group on Friday announced a statewide “Know Your Rights Tour” to educate Muslims on their rights as voters, when at school or work, when traveling and when being questioned by law enforcement. […]
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