February 2012
11 posts
Someone Called the FBI on NYPD Officers Pretending...
rcabbasi:
When the New York Police Department was doing some spying on Muslim students outside the city (that’s a thing it does, we learned from the Associated Press on Monday), an apartment officers used to spy on Rutgers students got a visit from the FBI on a report that it was a terrorist cell itself. This is the kind of reporting that won the AP a Polk award Monday for its series on the...
**HELP YOUR MUSLIM SISTERS IN NEW ZEALAND**
theworldisbutamoment:
The New Zealand Government is running a poll on a placing a ban on Niqab.
Visit the official voting link below and Vote “No”. It would be a huge help to those Niqabis in New Zealand. JazakAllah Khair!
Reblog to spread the word!
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/polls/popup/-/poll_id/55492/
NYPD Monitored Muslim Students All Over Northeast →
almaswithinalmas:
My brother attends one of the schools that were listed in this article.
The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.
Police talked with local authorities about...
'Blow away' text lands Muslim in jail
rcabbasi:
MONTREAL — A Muslim businessman in Canada became a terror suspect for telling his sales staff in a text message to “blow away” the competition at a New York City trade show, a religious association said Friday.
Moroccan-born Saad Allami, who works as a telecommunications company sales manager, was arrested three days after he sent the message in January 2011 and detained while police...
New Report: Muslim-American Terrorism on Decline →
rcabbasi:
A new study released today (Feb. 8) by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security documents that concerns of counterterrorism officials about a potential wave of homegrown violent extremism have not materialized over the past two years. The study, “Muslim-American Terrorism in the Decade Since 9/11,” reports that 20 Muslim-Americans committed or were arrested for terrorist...
Dire Warnings Over Muslim American Terrorists... →
almaswithinalmas:
A new study of homegrown terrorism involving Muslim Americans suggests that the alarm bells set off by Republicans in Congress over sleeper cells of Islamic extremists may be much too loud.
Despite warnings of a potential wave of violent attacks hatched on U.S. soil, research by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security finds that the number of attacks committed...
Petition: Allow females to play football wearing... →
youwontlikemewhenimhungry:
As elite soccer players compete in the qualifiers for this summer’s Olympics, some won’t even get a shot to show off their skills: female Muslim players can be automatically disqualified for wearing hijab (or headscarves) on the field.
The International Football Association Board (IFAB) — a governing body that sets the rules for the soccer trials leading up to the...