Alison Parker, the Human Rights Watch U.S. Program Director, composed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, urging the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the NYPD’s surveillance and profiling of Muslims based solely on their religion.
Posts Tagged ‘American Muslims’
February 23rd, 2012
The NYPD’s religious profiling
posted by John D. BoyTa-Nehisi Coates comments on the New York Police Department’s profiling of Muslim student populations throughout the northeastern U.S.
February 14th, 2012
Love, InshAllah
posted by Wei ZhuOver at the New York Times, Neil MacFarquhar writes about the recently published Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women, by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi.
September 20th, 2011
I thought we were all past this
posted by Amanda KaplanSpencer Ackerman discusses at length the “dozens of pages of recent FBI training material on Islam that Danger Room has acquired,” each one exposing practices and teachings of blatant discrimination, racial profiling, and cultural ignorance.
September 13th, 2011
A discussion on religious freedom, Islam, and American Muslims
posted by Amanda KaplanOn September 15, New York University will hold a discussion on “religious freedom, possibilities for reform in Islam, and the paths being taken by American Muslims in the context of a post-9/11 rise in bias against Muslims” with U.S. Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Irshad Manji.
July 21st, 2011
30 more mosques in 30 more days
posted by Amanda KaplanAman Ali and Bassam Tariq have announced round two of their mixed media project “30 Mosques in 30 Days,” an exercise in belief, ritual, community, and personal narrative.
March 9th, 2011
Brigitte Gabriel, Peter King, and the scrutiny of American Muslims
posted by Joseph BlankholmNew York Times national religion correspondent Laurie Goodstein has written a bio/exposé piece on Brigitte Gabriel: “Through her books, media appearances and speeches, and her organization, ACT! for America, Ms. Gabriel has become one of the most visible personalities on a circuit of self-appointed terrorism detectors who warn that Muslims pose an enormous danger within United States borders.”
August 23rd, 2010
Islam and Islamism
posted by Amanda KaplanBarry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs, posts a helpful piece at his blog, The Rubin Report, elucidating the differences and the affinities between Islam and political Islamism, and examining some of the ways in which they’ve been either conflated or unduly separated.
July 20th, 2009
Reversal in the case of Tariq Ramadan
posted by The Editors
Off the cuff is a new feature at The Immanent Frame, in which we pose a question to a handful of leading thinkers and ask for a brief response. Our first question concerns the case of Tariq Ramadan, with responses from Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Mohammed Bamyeh, Richard W. Bulliet, Craig Calhoun, John L. Esposito, Mark Juergensmeyer and Arvind Rajagopal.
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