Khizr Khan is a board member of People For the American Way. Dozens of events organized under the banner “March Against Sharia” were held across the country last month. Organizers said that the effort was not anti-Muslim, but there can be no question that the campaign to depict sharia as a threat to the Constitution,…
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A container filled with lard and a defiled copy of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, was mailed to the Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations last month, a week after two area mosques were targeted, CAIR officials announced Wednesday. The foul-smelling package arrived by Federal Express on June 28, sent…
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On Monday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations released a new reportdetailing a 91% increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes within the first six months of 2017 compared to the same time period in 2016. According to the civil rights group, 2016 was the worst year recorded for anti-Muslim hate crimes since it began documenting incidents in…
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A Muslim photographer is working on an ambitious project that he hopes will tackle stereotypes about American Muslims and showcase the community’s rich diversity. Since the fall of 2015, Carlos Khalil Guzman has been using his free time and his own funds to travel across the country to interview an array of Muslims. In the…
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Christians made up the majority of refugees admitted to the U.S. in the first five full months of the Trump administration, reversing a trend that saw Muslims entering the country at higher numbers under President Obama, a new Pew Research report shows. Out of all the refugees who arrived between President Trump’s inauguration and June…
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Linda Sarsour, a lead organizer of the Women’s March on Washington and one of the most high-profile Muslim activists in the country, gave an impassioned speech last weekend that at first gained little attention. Speaking to a predominately Muslim crowd at the annual Islamic Society of North America convention in suburban Chicago, Sarsour urged her fellow Muslims…
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SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (CBS SF) — Lawyers from four civil rights groups are on hand at San Francisco International Airport Thursday to help people with questions or problems concerning the partial implementation of President Donald Trump’s travel ban. “It’s a very confusing situation,” said Zahra Billoo, a lawyer who is executive director of the…
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Santa Clara County poised to fight Muslim registry, internment Advocates say the Supreme Court’s decision underscores the importance of taking action locally Protesters hold up signs in front of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, California on February 7, 2017. A federal appeals court heard arguments on…
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Bay Area Muslims push for peace, understanding as Ramadan ends SARATOGA, Calif. (KGO) — Hate crimes and bias incidents against the Muslim community are on the rise as Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, comes to a close. ABC7 News spoke to Bay Area Muslims about the pain and their push for peace and understanding. A…
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Interfaith groups to counter anti-Shariah rally in South Bay Sabiha Basrai, right attends a protest against President Trump’s new travel ban in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco, CA, on Thursday March 16, 2017. After years of being on the defensive and months of listening to President Trump’s plans for a travel…
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