London’s Muslim mayor says “Donald Trump’s ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe.” Sadiq Khan, London’s first Muslim mayor and the first actively affiliated member of the Islamic faith to become mayor of any major Western capital, issued a stern response Monday to Donald Trump’s suggestion …
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Except Israelis, of course. At this point in a nauseatingly long election cycle, Donald Trump‘s rampant xenophobia has been well documented. He famously took his bigotry to an entirely unprecedented level following the Paris Attacks when he pledged to ban all Muslims – 1.6 billion people globally – from entering …
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Midtown Manhattan became a heated battlefield Thursday evening as thousands of protestors convened around Grand Central Station to protest a GOP fundraising gala at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, where all three remaining Republican presidential nominee hopefuls were in attendance. The NYPD was out in full force, prepared with riot gear, …
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As GOP hosts NY State Republican Gala in Midtown, thousands expected to protest outside with the explicit intention of shutting it down New York City and GOP leaders are bracing themselves for some of the largest anti-Trump protests this campaign season, as thousands of people are scheduled to protest the …
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A peaceful memorial dedicated to the victims of the Brussels Attacks in Brussels was frighteningly interrupted Sunday when riot police had to disperse a large group of protesters, a large number of whom were seen repeatedly making Nazi salutes. While hundreds of people initially gathered peacefully at the Place de la Bourse …
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Less than a day after the Brussels Attacks, and just a few hours removed from calling for the reinstatement of waterboarding and new laws on legal torture, Donald Trump again took his Islamophobic rhetoric to dangerously new heights, blaming Muslims as a whole for the attack and saying the Muslim community …
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Original architect of CompStat, Stop and Frisk, and Broken Windows policing calls Cruz’s plan absurd “The statements he made today is why he’s not gonna become the president of this country” New York City Police Chief Bill Bratton has come out in strong opposition to Ted Cruz’s call for the …
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Ted Cruz is stepping up his rhetoric to reach the inflammatory levels of GOP front runner Donald Trump in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Brussels which left more than 30 dead. Following calls from Trump to legalize waterboarding, and his musings as to whether Cuba was properly quarantining …
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Larycia Hawkins, the Christian professor suspended by Wheaton College for wearing hijab out of solidarity with the Muslim women who face discrimination in the Christmas season, will not be returning to work. In December 2015, Hawkins was put on leave after making the following statement on her Facebook page along …
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Appearing Saturday on the “End Of Times” conservative radio program hosted by Ian Markell and Eric Barger, Michele Bachmann claimed that Islamic terrorists and Muslim Americans don’t need nuclear bombs to destroy Western Civilization because they have “rape culture.” Ignoring the fact that rape culture persists, well, everywhere in the …
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According to a report from Buzzfeed News, a group of approximately 100 masked men physically attacked Swedish immigrants in a train station Friday night. Immediately before the attack, several subsets of the group were seen passing out anti-immigration and white nationalist fliers. Via Think Progress: Four suspects were arrested in …
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Prepare yourself ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump has just landed another yuuuuuuuuge endorsement. This time, it comes from Vojislav Seselj, the former Serbian Deputy Prime Minister presently awaiting a verdict from the International Criminal Court regarding his role in organizing crimes of genocide against Serbian Muslims. Via Occupy Democrats: “I …
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I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised at this point. Donald Trump has called Mexicans rapists, Blacks lazy, and anybody who questions his self-proclaimed greatness losers. He has run a campaign built on hatred, division, and propagandist fear-mongering. It wasn’t even a surprise when we previously reported that white supremacists were …
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Neither the judge nor John David Weissinger, the San Diego-area man who pleaded guilty for making violent threats against the local Council on American-Islamic Relations office, were buying the argument defense attorney Michael Maloney made at Weissinger’s sentencing on Tuesday. Malowney claimed that the judge should go easy on his …
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A flight attendant removed four Muslim-Americans from Brooklyn off a flight from Toronto-New York, supposedly for ‘looking too Muslim.’ The men in question are now seeking 9 million dollars in damages. Via NY Daily News: The four fliers from Brighton Beach were among six longtime pals who spent several days …
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