Quite disgracefully, The Tennessean provides a platform for anti-Muslim extremist Vijay Kumar to promote his hate-filled paranoia about Islam.
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Court upholds sale of Detroit school for mosque
Controversial plans to open a mosque in a former school building in West Bloomfield moved a step closer to reality Friday with a decision by the Michigan Court of Appeals. The appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that found the sale of the former Eagle Elementary to the Islamic Cultural Association was proper.
The Court of Appeals said plaintiffs Melvyn Sternfeld and Eugene Greenstein, West Bloomfield residents who both opposed the sale, failed to prove that they would be harmed by the transaction. “Sternfeld’s vague and speculative affidavit does not establish his standing to pursue declaratory and injunctive relief,” the three-judge panel said in its ruling.
Police on Long Island say mosque vandalism is hate crime
A message of hate was spray-painted on a Suffolk County mosque and now police are searching for the vandals.
The angry words on the Bay Shore mosque threatened a rising war. It’s believed that someone came over the fence and vandalized the building, police said.
Daniel Pipes calls for desecration of Qur’an
Daniel Pipes has a solution to the crisis provoked by the Innocence of Muslims film.
Civil rights group condemn anti-Muslim New York subway ads
Muslim civil rights groups and community organisations have condemned a series of anti-Islamic advertisements that will be appearing in New York’s subway stations next week.
The ads had initially been rejected by the city’s Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) but were later allowed after a legal appeal ruled them to be expressions of freedom of speech. One ad reads: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.”
Procter & Gamble sued for religious discrimination
Two Cincinnati-based companies are facing a lawsuit over the termination of a former Muslim worker. The lawsuit, filed in an North Carolina court Monday, claims a woman named Safa Elhassan was fired from Procter & Gamble facilities after facing discrimination in the workplace.
Elhassan worked for P&G through XLC Services, a Cincinnati-based company that provides manufacturing services and warehouse management to other companies, at P&G facilities in Guilford County, N.C.
The lawsuit charges P&G and XLC with religious harassment, religious discrimination, failing to accommodate after religious discrimination in the workplace, national origin discrimination, sexual discrimination, two counts of retaliation, negligence, unfair and deceptive trade practices, assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Sam Harris defends ‘the freedom to offend an imaginary God’
Sam Harris presents his characteristically nuanced thoughts on The Innocence of Muslims and what he terms “the latest wave of Muslim hysteria and violence”. He writes:
“Consider what is actually happening: Some percentage of the world’s Muslims – Five percent? Fifteen? Fifty? It’s not yet clear – is demanding that all non-Muslims conform to the strictures of Islamic law.”
Muslim woman claims she was discriminated against at court house due to head scarf
ATLANTIC CITY — 29 year old Lenora Gordon says she was discriminated against while trying to enter the Atlantic County Civil Court Wednesday morning.
When she tried to enter the courtroom, she claims she wasn’t allowed in because of the head scarf she was wearing. “I came back out to meet my cousin, then all of a sudden I tried to enter the courtroom again and they said ‘oh well she can’t come in here with the scarf on’,” said Gordon.
Muslims crucify cat, Geller reveals
Pamela Geller reported earlier this week that Muslims in Nigeria had crucified a cat in protest against the Innocence of Muslims film. According to Geller, this was par for the course with Islam: “An anti-freedom, anti-life, culture produces little else other than new and different ways to kill, murder torture, destroy.”
CAIR issues report on August spike in anti-mosque incidents
Islamic Society of Joplin building in flames on 6 August
A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today issued a preliminary report on a spike in anti-mosque incidents that occurred in late August following a massacre of Sikh worshippers in Oak Creek, Wis.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reports that in the 13-day period between August 6 and August 18, there were eight incidents in which Muslim places of worship were targeted. As a comparison, in the first seven months of 2012 there were 10 such incidents.
CAIR’s report comes one day before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights plans to hold a hearing on hate crimes and domestic extremism. It comes just after a mosque in Virginia was vandalized in an apparent bias incident.