Antiwar.com: Following every Islamist terror attack on a Western soft target, like the recent one in Brussels, we hear the same refrain from certain corners: “Why won’t Muslims stand up to Islamic extremism?” The rhetorical question is meant to imply its own answer: that Islam is unavoidably a religion of violence which impels its adherents to
Press TV March 17, 2016 The US Justice Department is investigating whether a city in New Jersey violated religious freedom laws when it denied a plan by a group of Muslims to build a mosque. The Justice Department’s probe comes a week after the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge sued Bernards Township in federal court,
Press TV March 11, 2016 A US Muslim advocacy group urges Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to apologize for comments that Islam harbors hatred toward the West. In a Wednesday interview with CNN, Trump said, “Islam hates us…There’s a tremendous hatred. We have to get to the bottom of it. There is an unbelievable hatred
Press TV / February 20, 2016 An influential Muslim advocacy group in the United States has condemned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for “inciting violence” against Muslims, after he narrated a hoax story about Muslims being killed with bullets “dipped in pig’s blood.” “Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric has crossed the line from spreading hatred to
Press TV / February 6, 2016 Donald Trump, the leading US Republican presidential candidate, has criticized President Barack Obama for ‘apologizing’ to Muslims during his first visit to an American mosque. At a campaign rally in South Carolina on Friday, the blunt-spoken billionaire defended his controversial proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States in
Press TV January 30, 2016 US President Barack Obama is to make his first visit to a mosque during his time in office next week to make a plea for tolerance, the White House says. The White House, making the announcement on Saturday, said Obama will visit the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque on Wednesday, and
Press TV / January 30, 2016 Muslims and people of Middle Eastern origin are mainly targeted by a US government program to “counter terrorism,” says a political commentator from Virginia. Keith Preston, chief editor and director of AttacktheSystem.com told Press TV on Saturday that there are “concerns about what in the United States is called racial profiling or ethnic profiling
Counter Punch: For centuries, the West has been behaving like a mad bloodthirsty monster. Despite the self-glorifying propaganda being spread by Western media outlets all over the world, it was becoming common knowledge that the Empire was raping, murdering and plundering in virtually all corners of the Globe. A few more decades and the world
Common Dreams: “At the moment, someone can move here with very basic English and there’s no requirement to improve it,” the Prime Minister wrote in The Times. “We will now say: if you don’t improve your fluency, that could affect your ability to stay in the UK.” Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV / January 18, 2016 UK Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn has invited US presidential candidate Donald Trump to visit a mosque in London, saying he “might learn something.” “I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems