Fox News hosted a series of discredited anti-Islam activists to smear Muslims during Fox’s coverage of the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon. Media Matters has the details.
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US talk show host calls for end to Muslim immigration
On her show today, right wing radio host Laura Ingraham said that the United States should no longer allow immigrants from majority Muslim nations. Ingraham added that she didn’t think people from Central Asia should be allowed in at all:
“How do we give asylum to people from Islamic countries, or Islamic territories, who are claiming that they are somehow deserving of this? I don’t even understand that… I would submit that people shouldn’t be coming here as tourists from Chechnya after 9/11. Dagestan, Chechnya, Kyrgyzstan, uh-uh. As George Bush would say, ‘None of them stans’.”
What made the Boston bombing an act of terrorism?
Glenn Greenwald comments on the claim that the Boston Marathon bombing, allegedly carried out by the Tsarnaev brothers, was an act of terrorism.
Bill Maher: Comparing violence of Islam to Christianity ‘liberal bullsh*t’
On HBO’s “Real Time” on Friday night, host Bill Maher entertained CSU-San Bernardino professor Brian Levin, director of the Center for Study of Hate and Extremism, who maintained that despite the events in recent days, religious extremism isn’t only a product of Islam.
But Maher took issue with that claim, calling it “liberal bullshit” and said there was no comparison.
“You know what, yeah, yeah,” Maher said. “You know what — that’s liberal bullshit right there … they’re not as dangerous. I mean there’s only one faith, for example, that kills you or wants to kill you if you draw a bad cartoon of the prophet. There’s only one faith that kills you or wants to kill you if you renounce the faith. An ex-Muslim is a very dangerous thing. Talk to Salman Rushdie after the show about Christian versus Islam. So you know, I’m just saying let’s keep it real.”
After Boston, we should put Muslims under surveillance, says Rep. King
President Obama cautioned the nation not to rush to judgment about the Boston Marathon bombers. But that’s not stopping Republican Rep. Peter King.
King, who chairs the House subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, is urging authorities to beef up their surveillance of Muslims in the U.S. following Friday night’s arrest of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Police must “realize that the threat is coming from the Muslim community and increase surveillance there,” the New York lawmaker told National Review.
King – who spearheaded controversial hearings on the radicalization of Muslim-Americans in 2011 – also told CNN that “we can’t be politically correct. I think we have to see, has radicalization extended into the Chechen community?”
‘Anti-Shariah law’ passes Florida House
Legislation designed to prevent any foreign legal principles from being used in state courts passed the Florida House Thursday.
HB 351, sponsored by Rep. Larry Metz, R-Yalaha, has been widely dubbed the anti-Shariah law. Supporters argued the bill is a preventive measure to ensure foreign law does not infiltrate the state’s family law courts. Opponents called it a solution in search of a problem and said there has never been a case where someone’s constitutional rights were diminished by foreign law.
Injured Saudi student still the focus of conspiracy theories
Richard Bartholomew examines the conspiracy theories over the Boston Marathon bombing that are being promoted by Pamela Geller, Steve Emerson, Michael Savage and Walid Shoebat.
Erik Rush wasn’t joking when he said kill Muslims
Fox News contributor Erik Rush complains in his latest column at World Net Daily that he was only joking when he said that Muslims are evil and should be killed.
But he manages to prove otherwise by closing the column with a justification for killing Muslims:
For the record, I still maintain that Islam is, by its nature, wholly incompatible with Western society. I analogize liberalism, which is promoting this dhimmitude, to Stage 3 cancer in America’s body politic. For the record: While killing people is definitely undesirable, that is what war tends to be about.
And we are at war – just study the history of Islam, or ask any Islamist.
Right Wing Watch, 18 April 2013
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Hate crimes follow Boston bombing
CAIR reports that a mother of Middle Eastern heritage wearing an Islamic headscarf, or hijab, was assaulted yesterday morning in Malden, Mass., by a white male shouting anti-Muslim slurs.
The victim told CAIR the attack occurred when she was walking with another Muslim woman also wearing hijab, while both were pushing baby strollers. She said the alleged attacker shouted, “F*** You, F*** Muslims, You are terrorists,” and struck her forcefully on the shoulder. The man, who appeared to be in his 30s, also reportedly made statements blaming Muslims for the Boston Marathon bombings.
US Muslims ‘holding their breath’ as Boston investigators hunt for bomber
US Muslims are “holding their breath” as the investigation into the Boston Marathon attacks develops, amid fears of increased racial profiling and attacks if an Islamic link is confirmed, according to advocate groups.
Investigators say they still do not know who carried out the attacks or why, and Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, said on Wednesday there was no evidence the attacks were part of a larger plot.
But amid official statements that no suspect has yet been identified as being behind the bombs that killed three and maimed and wounded more than a hundred people, at least two news outlets falsely reported a Saudi national was being held as a suspect, with some lawmakers and pundits pitching in on the falsehood.
Muneer Awad, the executive director of New York chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (Cair), said: “Americans have been conditioned to assume that any act of terror on our land has been perpetrated by a Muslim. That’s why it was so easy for people to jump on to reports that a Saudi national had been a person of interest. There is no reason for why he was a suspect, other than he was a Saudi Arabian.
“Whether they are being questioned, interrogated, having their apartments being searched – we are looking at a community where it’s normal for the NYPD or the FBI to simply knock on your door and ask you questions without a warrant.”
Awad said that the anxiety that the Muslim community is feeling over a possible backlash is not new, but has been present since 9/11. It is waiting to see what will happen now, he said. “A lot of people are holding their breath.”