Tag: muslim
Littwin: Trump hits new low; world can’t help but notice
Think back to 9/11, back when thousands of New Jersey Muslims were not actually cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, and try...
Griego: The well from which we drink
In the first hours after our new president signed an executive order to close this country’s doors to refugees — temporarily for now, for...
Colorado’s favorite scapegoat
You could tell by the snipers on the roof and thick chain of deputies in the hallway that something big was supposed to be happening in Arapahoe County Courthouse Room 201.
Coming Congressional Muslim-radicalization hearings criticized as hypocrytical circus
Tomorrow New York Republican Rep. Peter King will open his Homeland Security Committee hearings on the question of whether or not Muslim-Americans are doing enough to help safeguard the nation from terrorism. The hearings have been pilloried as an exercise in attention-grabbing ethnic-baiting and scapegoating and as an essentially unfair government-sanctioned exercise in Islamophobia. After all, what ethnic group in America is doing enough to safeguard the nation from terrorism? Could any group -- much less a loosely affiliated ethnic or religious group-- do enough to safeguard the nation from terrorism? King has responded to such criticism by doubling down. He has rearranged the committee schedule to ratchet up its partisan circus quality and he has dismissed his own past as an unabashed supporter of the terrorist Irish Republican Army.
WATCH: Glenn Beck: Obama’s submission to Jesus is Islamic
Tuesday night Fox News host Glenn Beck deconstructed reports that nearly 20 percent of Americans, mostly on the right, say they believe President Obama...
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...
Schools out: David Brooks laments Tea Party anti-intellectualism
New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks notes a trend in politics over the last year: The voting public is moving not just to...
Talk radio’s Boyles: Threats against Muslim-Americans a ‘myth’
In the wake of the Fort Hood shootings, Denver KHOW talk-radio host Peter Boyles told listeners that reports of retaliatory threats around the country against Muslim Americans were a myth-- a product of a politically correct culture that aimed to silence hawkish members of the right and that was making the U.S. vulnerable to attacks.