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Muslim Community Liaison Resigns Over Alleged Ties to the Muslim Community
Recently I was listening to this episode of This American Life (Act Two, to be precise) and realized that the American Muslim community is experiencing a frightening witch hunt. In short, Masan Azbahi was an Obama campaign liaison to Chicago’s Muslim community until he was accused of being a terrorist. Why? Because he had once [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2009 under Islam, Media, This American Life, discrimination, irony, media bias, muslim, obama, objectification, religion, religious extremists, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists.
Tags: anti-semitism, chicago, dow jones, fundamentalist, imam, investment, ira glass, irony, Islam, jamal said, masan azbahi, muslim, obama, racism, radical islam, terror, terrorism, wall street journal. this american life, war on terror
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We're Not Taking This Sitting Down: The Standing Committee on the Status of Women
Okay, okay, I’m not Canadian, and at this rate, I probably won’t be. But Canada is at a commendable stage of self-examination right now: a stage that the U.S. is actually still in. Oh, okay, you’re saying, Marinara over there is hitting the sauce a little too hard for a Sunday morning in Buenos Aires. [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Adisa Banjoko, Canada, Civil Rights, Congress, Equal Rights Amendment, Yasmin Ratansi, amendment, black, canadian MP, consititution, cultural criticism, english, equal pay, french, gender culture, gender equality, heterosexual, hip hop, law, legislation, love, muslim, pay, pregnancy, race, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, unequal, violence, violence against women, women's rights.
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