July 21, 2014 DOWNLOAD FULL PDF REPORT: Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in US Terrorism Prosecutions Investigations, Trials of American Muslims Rife with Abuse (Washington, DC) –The US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have targeted American Muslims in abusive counterterrorism “sting operations” based on religious and ethnic identity, Human Rights Watch and…
July 16, 2014 Jews, Catholics & Evangelicals Rated Warmly, Atheists and Muslims More Coldly PDF DOWNLOAD OF REPORT: “How Americans Feel About Religious Groups” Jews, Catholics and evangelical Christians are viewed warmly by the American public. When asked to rate each group on a “feeling thermometer” ranging from 0 to 100 – where 0 reflects…
July 17, 2014 To appreciate the relevance of playwright Ayad Akhtar’s work, you need look no further than two eerie coincidences that shadowed his debut drama, “Disgraced.” The play, which portrays the downfall of a Muslim American lawyer, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2013. The day the award was announced, two Muslims deposited…
July 17, 2014 A court in Cleveland sentences two Britons for supporting Muslim militants in print and online publications. Paul Chapman reports [See video here: http://nyti.ms/1trMmmB]
July 16, 2014 An Indiana law is “irrational” and “absurd” for allowing Satanists to perform legal marriages while making it a crime for Buddhists and humanists to do the same, a federal appeals court said this week. It’s been a rough few months for state marriage laws around the country, which judges have repeatedly struck down…
