(Boston Globe) The people who allegedly hectored Celtics center Enes Kanter outside a mosque over his political opposition to Turkey’s president didn’t commit a crime, Cambridge police have determined. In a statement Tuesday, police announced their findings in their review of the […]
(Boston Globe) New Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter said he was harassed outside of a Cambridge mosque Friday afternoon because of his political opposition to Turkey’s president. Kanter, a 6-11 Turkish basketball player signed by Boston this summer, posted a video to […]
(Boston Globe) Yusufi Vali, who most recently ran the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury, was tapped Thursday to head the city’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, becoming the highest-ranking Muslim in city government in recent memory. The 36-year-old, whose family […]
(JNS) A number of Massachusetts Jewish and pro-Israel groups are condemning several Democratic state lawmakers for participating in an Eid al-Fitr event at the Massachusetts State House being co-hosted by the Massachusetts branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has […]
(Breitbart) Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour was ripped on social media after posting a selfie with Roger Waters on a private jet with an accompanying text extolling the Pink Floyd frontman’s “empathy” and “personal risk” in standing up for the Palestinians. Sarsour […]
(Boston Globe) As President Trump’s attacks against one of the first Muslim women to serve in Congress continue to reverberate, dozens of Muslims gathered in the sunlit Great Hall of the State House this week to carry a basic message to lawmakers: […]
(Boston Globe) Stepping before the congregation, Governor Charlie Baker took the microphone at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center and softly offered “Salam,” a greeting of peace. “How’d I do?” he then asked, as light laughter rippled through the crowd. Weeks […]
(AP) Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is planning to visit a Boston mosque. Organizers say the visit Friday to the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center — the largest mosque in New England — is the first by a sitting Republican Massachusetts governor. […]
(AP) Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s convictions or death sentence should be tossed because it was impossible for him to get a fair trial in the same city where the shrapnel-packed, pressure cooker bombs exploded, his lawyers told a federal appeals court […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), who was initially scheduled to speak at the same conference as controversial Women’s March organizer and liberal activist Linda Sarsour, is no longer speaking at the conference due to a scheduling conflict. Warren had been […]
(Free Beacon) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) will attend an immigration conference next month with Women’s March organizer and liberal activist Linda Sarsour, who has come under increased scrutiny for her ties to radical Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan. Both Warren […]
(Free Beacon) Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) spoke Thursday outside the Supreme Court at a rally hosted by prominent Women’s March organizers and anti-Israel activists Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory. Sarsour and Mallory hosted the rally to show […]
(Free Beacon) Democratic congressional candidate Ayanna Pressley appeared outside a mosque that has played host to numerous radical figures during her primary campaign this year. Dr. Wesley Muhammad gave a lecture at Boston’s Muhammad Mosque No. 11 in February entitled “The Secret […]
(Springfield Republican) U.S. Rep. Richard Neal beat out challenger Tahirah Amatul-Wadud in Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District Democratic primary Tuesday — a win that essentially guarantees the longtime congressman, who faces no Republican opponents, re-election in November. Neal, who has represented Western Massachusetts in Washington for nearly 30 […]
(Worcester Telegram) A candidate challenging U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, in the Democratic primary shared on her Facebook page an essay that maintains 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were inside jobs and that America should not have fought Hitler in defense of the […]
(Worcester Telegram) A Democratic primary challenger to U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, in the 1st Congressional District has landed endorsements from progressive groups despite her connection to a Muslim cleric who called the Supreme Court ruling upholding same-sex marriage the “darkest day […]
(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 […]
(Springfield Republican) Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, a Springfield Democrat running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District, spoke out this week against an Islamophobic flier targeting her campaign that has been sent to residents across Western Massachusetts. Amatul-Wadud, who will […]
(Boston Globe) Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, a candidate for Congress, is difficult to miss on the cracked sidewalks of Main Street on a 96-degree day. A blue hijab is wrapped around her head and a yellow abaya falls to her feet as she pops […]
(AP) A liberal woman of color with zero name recognition and little funding takes down a powerful, long serving congressman from her own political party. When Tahirah Amatul-Wadud heard about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning upset over U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in New York’s […]
(Springfield Republican) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s unexpected primary win over high-ranking Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in New York sparked talk of another potential upset in Massachusetts. But U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, has largely dismissed the idea that the outcome in New York will […]
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