• Posts Tagged ‘Special Coverage’

    Room for Debate: Is Americans’ Religious Freedom Under Threat?

    by  • January 4, 2012 • Articles and Essays, Discrimination and Xenophobia, Elections and Political Discourse, Immigration and Integration, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Publications, Security and Counterterrorism,  News by Country,  News by Issue

    Companies have pulled their ads from a TV show that portrays Muslims as benign. Religious groups may be required to offer insurance that covers drugs that can induce abortions. A federal judge rejected a ballot initiative on same-sex marriage partly because of its religious arguments. Are these just bubbles in the American melting pot,...

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    Tolerance for Intolerance Bruises Lowe’s

    by  • January 4, 2012 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Elections and Political Discourse, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Youth and Pop Culture,  News by Country,  News by Issue

    Poor Lowe’s. The do-it-yourself chain made room in their budget for TLC’s “All-American Muslim,” a reality show about life in the Muslim American community in Dearborn, Mich., but the company ended up catching some focus for supporting a show that depicted Muslims as something besides terrorists. As it turned out, the protest was hardly...

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    TLC ‘All American Muslim” controversy

    by  • December 16, 2011 • Discrimination and Xenophobia, Immigration and Integration, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Video, Youth and Pop Culture,  News by Country,  News by Issue

    Special Coverage: Lowe’s pulls ads from TV show about U.S. Muslims A decision by retail giant Lowe’s Cos. to pull ads from a reality show about American Muslims after protests from an evangelical Christian group has sparked criticism and calls for a boycott against the chain of home-improvement stores. The retailer stopped advertising on...

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    Gallup: Muslim Americans: Faith, Freedom, and the Future

    by  • August 10, 2011 • Immigration and Integration, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations, Publications, Reports and WPs,  News by Country,  News by Issue

    Examining U.S. Muslims’ political, social, and spiritual engagement 10 years after September 11. Ten years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Muslim Americans are more optimistic than other major faith groups about their future, even as they report greater discrimination and less confidence in the FBI and the U.S. military, a new poll has...

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