Myrick, Shadegg, Broun, Franks: Congress’ Anti-Muslim Bigot Caucus

Via Justin Elliott, Greg Sargent and Tim Fernholz, the aforementioned Republican members of Congress are incensed that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a lobby group for the American Muslim community, would … lobby Congress. They’ve ordered the House sergeant-at-arms to investigate whether CAIR “is connected to or More…

Barack Obama Converts to German

During President Obama’s Cairo trip earlier this month, the press corps finally uncovered the truth about President Obama: by saying “shukran” — the Arabic word for “thanks” — to an Arabic-speaking audience, he secretly converted to Islam. Today the story gets even curiouser.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the More…

The Washington Times Gets the Scoop on Obama’s Muslim DNA

I guess I see what Washington Times mainstay Wes Pruden is trying to say here, but there could be a less Cecil Rhodes-ian way of expressing it.

Mr. Obama’s revelation of his “inner Muslim” in Cairo reveals much about who he is. He is our first president without an

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Human Rights Watch vs. Human Rights Watch on Obama’s Cairo Speech

What did the human-rights-promotion community think about the Cairo speech? According to vanguard organization Human Rights Watch’s official statement, emailed to me at 4:14 p.m. yesterday, not such great things. This release was titled “U.S./Egypt: Obama Dodged Rights Issue: Generalities Failed to Send Tough Message on Mideast Repression.”

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Where’s U.S. Public Diplomacy When Bin Laden Whines About Obama?

President Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the first leg of of his outreach to what-we-maybe-shouldn’t-call-the Muslim world and, unsurprisingly, Osama bin Laden has released his latest mixtape screed against Obama and the United States more broadly. This time, to blunt the message of reconciliation and respect More…

New Surveillance Rules Threaten FBI Relationship With Muslim Groups

Muslim groups are rethinking their previous commitments to work with the FBI in light of growing concerns that mosques and other Islamic centers are under surveillance or being infilatrated — without any evidence they’ve participated in a crime, The Associated Press reports.

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‘Flying While Muslim,’ the New ‘Driving While Black’

The Washington Post reports that a large group of Muslim travelers were removed from a flight Thursday at a Washington-area airport after one of them made a comment about airline safety.

Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from

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