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The Success of Smears: Obama’s Relationship With American Muslims

By | 04.19.10 | 8:57 am

The New York Times runs a very good piece about the strained, tentative and sub rosa relationship between the Obama administration and American Muslim organizations. There’s an insightful bit about how meetings between Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, and U.S. Muslim groups contributed to her department’s repeal More…

ACLU Report Documents Serious Problems With U.S. Restrictions on Muslim Charities

By | 06.16.09 | 10:07 am

The American Civil Liberties Union just issued this report (with this neat YouTube video accompanying it) on the range of problems created by the U.S. government’s crackdown on Muslim charities suspected of supporting terrorism since 9/11.

The report, “Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity” picks up on More…