There’s no good response to the command “Prove you don’t support Hezbollah.” Acceding to a bad-faith frame is hopeless. That’s why we consider “When did you stop beating your wife?” or “Are you now or have you ever been a Communist?” to be disgraceful locutions. Except, apparently, if you’re an More…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations sent reporters an alert about a Florida Muslim leader named Joshua Evans who received a letter full of white powder. Evans was taken to the hospital and it turned out the powder wasn’t anything toxic. But this follows an incident where a mosque in More…
No sooner did this story go out about the Obama administration’s strained ties with U.S. Muslim organizations than comes this announcement from the Arab-American Institute:
Ambassador Susan Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, will join members of Congress, foreign dignitaries and other distinguished guests in honoring awardees
This, via Andrew Exum of CNAS, has to be seen to be believed. A Tennessee TV news report portrays an entire Muslim community in the state as a possible terrorist training program, despite having absolutely no evidence that the secluded community engages in any dubious activity at all. More…
With fears of a new wave of domestic terrorism rising (even though those fears are statistically way out of proportion to the millions of American Muslims), The New York Times takes a look at something that really could contribute to it: fraying relations between American Muslim community leaders More…
The arrest in Pakistan of five northern Virginia young men at a safe house belonging to the anti-India terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed underscores fears of domestic U.S. radicalization that have swelled in recent weeks. From Najibullah Zazi to the Minnesotans arrested for aiding Somali More…
For a very good and comprehensive look at why, as he puts it, “homegrown Islamic terrorism isn’t a threat,” even after the Fort Hood horror, read every word of this overview by Max Fisher of The Atlantic. A very small sample:
Concerns about the loyalty of Muslim-Americans have little
TPM’s Justin Elliott and Versha Sharma collect statements from conservative groups calling for Muslim-Americans to be purged from the military in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings. Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association — well, some American families — writes, “It it is time, I suggest, More…
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