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Colorado Muslims Disgusted with Biased Clements Murder Coverage

News surrounding the murder Tuesday of Colorado Department of Corrections Chief Tom Clements centers now on white supremacist suspect Evan Ebel, who was captured clinically dead yesterday afternoon in a hail of bullets after a 100 mile-per-hour car chase ended in a wreck near Fort Worth, Texas.

Latino Republicans court GOP defector Hasan

Conservative Latino organization Somos Republicans, which has battled the rise of what it sees as bigoted, big-government positions on immigration among Republican leaders, is courting high-profile Colorado Republican Party defector Muhammed Ali Hasan. The group Monday asked Hasan not to become a Democrat, as he announced he would do last month, but to work with Somos Republicans and its supporters to "change the Republican Party from within."

Colorado GOP loses Hasan

Muhammad Ali Hasan, a member of the wealthy and influential Colorado Republican Hasan family and a past state House and treasurer candidate, said he is switching parties. Speaking at the University of Colorado-Boulder on his experience growing up Muslim in the American West and later in conversation with the Colorado Independent, Hasan said he is ending his affiliation with the party for the bigotry he believes has shaped Republican politics over the last year. The FOX News regular and founder of Muslims for Bush said he met recently with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the controversial Democratic leader won him over.

How to reward attention seeking political blogger bomb-throwers

Pamela Geller is a Manhattan socialite who blogs about how Islam equals terrorism. She's a political provocateur in the Ann Coulter vein, but more...

Anti-Muslim Thursday: Gingrich in Denver, apologies in Portland, textbooks in Austin

Fear of things Muslim among a certain segment of the U.S. population this week landed with a splash on the calendar of the Denver...

Rooting out bigotry in Colorado Tea Party on 9-11 anniversary

The 9-11 tragedy had nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with criminal mass murderers. But today, on the anniversary of 9-11, you wonder how many of us understand that, as anti-Islamic hatred connected to 9-11 appears to be growing and polls show outright bigotry toward Muslims rising.

Americans think Obama is Muslim; Hasan thinks Obama is anti-Muslim

The headline-getting dubious recent Pew Research Poll that reported 20 percent of Americans believe the President is Muslim had CNN reporting the fact that...

VIDEO: Heston via Jon Stewart defends ‘Ground Zero mosque’

For those who haven't yet seen the video, Jon Stewart flipped the script on the "Ground Zero mosque" debate last night on the Daily...

Ground Zero mosque ‘stabs the heart’; strip clubs, betting parlors not...

A downtown Manhattan blogger with a camera strolled around the Ground Zero two-block periphery and snapped some photos of the "hallowed ground" many political...

Hasan tweets support for Ground Zero gay bar: ‘Rename Park Place...

Colorado conservative family scion Ali Hasan left for California this summer after he lost his GOP state assembly bid for state treasurer. Hasan is...
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