Saturday, March 12, 2011

Colbert: Reza Aslan Reza Aslan thinks Peter King's hearings to investigate Muslim radicalization are a useless enterprise. (06:36)

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http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/377121/march-10-2011/reza-aslan?xrs=share_copy

Colbert: Peter King Understands Violent Radicalism

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Farhana Khera: King Hearings & Anti-Muslim Hate: A Citizen's Call to Action

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/farhana-khera/king-hearings-antimuslim-_b_834028.html

Peter King Anti-Muslim Hearings Teach Children Hate

http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2011/03/10/peter-king-anti-muslim-hearings-teach-children-hate/

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King hearings come to Flatbush: David Horowitz stokes anti-Muslim sentiment at Brooklyn College

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/peter-king-hearings-come-to-flatbush-david-horowitz-stokes-anti-muslim-sentiment-at-brooklyn-college.html

Rep. King's red scare

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031102680.html?sid=ST2011031102967

Wajahat Ali: Peter King's subversive fantasy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/11/islam-congress

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wajahat-ali/peter-kings-subversive-fa_b_834697.html

Radical Muslim Hearings - IRA Terrorism John Oliver acknowledges that the IRA killed innocent civilians, but it's not terrorism if it didn't happen in the United States. (02:57)


http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-10-2011/radical-muslim-hearings---ira-terrorism

Daily Show: Radical Muslim Hearings Peter King ironically launches hearings to investigate American Muslims while defending his ties to the IRA. (03:33)


http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-10-2011/radical-muslim-hearings

Zareena Grewal: Peter King, your hearings aren't just bigoted. They're making things worse.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0310/Peter-King-your-hearings-aren-t-just-bigoted.-They-re-making-things-worse?cmpid=addthis_facebook&sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d79826c324704c3%2C0

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Results for #kinghearings on twitter

http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23kinghearings

Peter King hearings live on msnbc

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42006600#42006600

US counter-terrorism training 'presents Islam as inherently violent'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/09/us-counter-terrorism-training-islam

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Extremists on Extremism: Peter King and the Sharia Scam

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-feffer/extremists-on-extremism-p_b_833148.html

Letters: Peter King’s Hearings on Muslims

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/opinion/l10king.html?hpw

Police in Los Angeles Step Up Efforts to Gain Muslims’ Trust

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/us/10muslims.html

Domestic Terrorism Hearing Set to Begin

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/us/politics/11king.html?_r=1&hp

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The hearings sponsored by Peter King and the campaign against sharia are two sides of the same Islamophobic coin.

Peter King is not entirely to blame, of course, for the resurgence of Islamophobia. Liberals have played a role, too. "The right-wing hardliners set the framework that Muslims are a backwards, evil, anti-American group, then the liberals say that some of the Muslims are nice, some of them don’t oppress their women," explains Raed Jarrar in an interview with him and Niki Akhavan in the FPIF special focus on Islamophobia. "This is like one person saying, 'I think all black people are thieves' and another person says 'I don’t believe that all black people are thieves.' If you are using that as a reference point, then you are actually reaffirming the framework."
http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/chicken_a_la_king

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Bob Herbert: Flailing After Muslims

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/opinion/08herbert.html

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Japanese Americans decry Rep. King's Muslim hearings as 'sinister'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030802876.html

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Malcolm X: A Life of ReInvention by Dr. Manning Marable

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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

Malcolmology Episode 1

Malcolmology Episode 2: Growing Up Garvey



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NYT Letters: The House Hearings on American Muslims

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/opinion/l09muslim.html?src=twrhp

For Lawmaker Examining Terror, a Pro-I.R.A. Past

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/us/politics/09king.html?_r=1&hp

New Book by Charles Kurzman: The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists - Oxford University Press, USA (July 12, 2011)

Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world--many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom--why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs?
In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority on Islamic movements demonstrates that terrorist groups are thoroughly marginal in the Muslim world. Charles Kurzman draws on government sources, public opinion surveys, election results, and in-depth interviews with Muslims in the Middle East and around the world. He finds that young Muslims are indeed angry with what they see as imperialism--and especially at Western support for local dictatorships. But revolutionary Islamists have failed to reach them, as can be seen from the terrorists' own websites and publications, which constantly bemoan the dearth of willing recruits.

Kurzman notes that it takes only a small cadre of committed killers to wreak unspeakable havoc. But that very fact underscores his point. As easy as terrorism is to commit, few Muslims turn to violence. Out of 140,000 murders in the United States since 9/11, Islamist terrorists have killed at most three dozen people. Of the 150,000 people who die each day, worldwide, Islamist militants account for fewer than fifty fatalities--and only ten per day outside of the hotspots of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. The real bulwark against Islamist violence, Kurzman finds, is Muslims themselves, who reject both the goals of the terrorists and their bloody means. With each bombing, the terrorists lose support among Muslims.

Incisive and authoritative, The Missing Martyrs provides much-needed corrective to deep-seated and destructive misconceptions about Muslims and the Islamic world. The threat of Islamist terrorism is real, Kurzman shows, but its dimensions are, so far, tightly confined.
About the Author 
Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include Democracy Denied and The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0199766878/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_UBRDnb03YFJP1

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Blog of Zaytuna College Students

http://zaytunies.tumblr.com/

Setting the Record Straight on Sharia: An Interview with Intisar Rabb

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/03/rabb_interview.html

NYT Editorial Today: Peter King’s Obsession

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/opinion/08tue1.html?_r=1&hp

Monday, March 7, 2011

Drawing U.S. Crowds With Anti-Islam Message by Laurie Goodstein

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/us/08gabriel.html?_r=1&hp

Kareem Salama - Makes Me Crazy (Official Music Video)

Remembering Rehab El-Buri

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/remembering-rehab-el-buri-abc-news-investigative-team/story?id=13076627

Hussein Rashid: Tea Party Organizes Islamophobic Hate Rally

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/husseinrashid/4333/tea_party_organizes_islamophobic_hate_rally/

Peter King's Anti-Muslim Bigotry Haunts Terrorism Hearings

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-06/peter-kings-anti-muslim-bigotry-haunts-terrorism-hearings/The

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Imam Zaid Shakir: What Went Wrong? Funny You Should Ask

On Nicholas Kristof's piece "Is Islam the Problem?" (March 5, 2011)

http://www.newislamicdirections.com/nid/notes/what_went_wrong_funny_you_should_ask1/

White House Seeks to Allay Muslims’ Fears on Terror Hearings

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/us/politics/07muslim.html?hp

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Fox and Glenn Beck Stare Into a Dark Future

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/business/media/07carr.html

Conversation with Chris Hedges- Media Roots TV

Russell Simons: The Hypocrisy of Peter King

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-simmons/peter-king-the-clown_b_831494.html

White House Praises Muslims Ahead Of House Hearing

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134307474

NY1: City Groups Rally Ahead Of U.S. Muslim Hearings

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/135060/city-groups-rally-ahead-of-u-s--muslim-hearings?ap=1&MP4

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(Video) CNN on 'the radicalization of Muslim Americans' with Rep. Peter King and Rep. Keith Ellison


http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2011/03/06/sotu.king.ellison.muslims.cnn.html

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Meet Peter King: Islamophobe

Special US prison units fill with Muslims

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20110306-323799/Special-US-prison-units-fill-with-Muslims

Is Pamela Geller Starting Judaism's Westboro Baptist Church? (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-stanton/is-pamela-geller-starting_b_831186.html

TPD officers flood Islamic Society event

Nice video and short article about a Muslim community in Tulsa, Oklahoma and their hosting a "law enforcement appreciation day" that was well attended

http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/tpd-officers-flood-islamic-society-event