Super Bowl advertisers have been releasing their commercials earlier and earlier, mostly in an attempt to build social media buzz before the big game. But as advertisers this year are learning, with this new opportunity comes a great deal of risk. Coca-Cola is running into similar charges of using racial stereotypes from Arab-American groups who…
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A brutal beating left a beloved grandfather in the hospital Friday night and police want to know if it was an act of hate. The whole incident apparently started with a simple question and answer, but it ended with the victim bloody and bruised from head to toe. It happened just before…
Who is Quazi Mohammed Nafis? When CBS News asked his father, a banker in Bangladesh, he said he’d spent his life savings to send the quiet, timid boy to college in America. At a small Missouri college, Nafis struck fellow students from Bangladesh as an intense young man who became more angry and radical over…
(CBS/AP) An anti-Islamic advertisement has gone up at several Metro-North Railroad stations in Westchester County. It reads: “It’s not Islamophobia, it’s Islamorealism.” The signs were paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an organization ran by blogger and political activist Pamela Geller. It associates Islam with 19,250 terrorist attacks carried out by extremists since…
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday denied questioning President Obama’s Christian faith but said the president has an environmental belief “that elevates the Earth above man.” Santorum was quoted Saturday as telling an audience in Ohio that although he accepts the president’s Christianity, he believes Obama adheres to “some phony theology. Not a theology…
