Islam

Florida State Senator Says We Need to "Vaccinate" Against Shariah

Republican state senator in Florida Alan Hays is a hero! Hays, who once filed legislation to keep public buses from stopping on streets because one time he got stuck in traffic behind one, says that Islam is gonna Sharia Law all up the state of Florida like polio. And if Sharia Law is the polio, A ... More >>

David Horowitz Has Made Taunting College Students a Spectator Sport

CAIR Officials on NDAA, Indefinite Detention, and Allen West Calling Them an "Un-Indicted Co-Conspirator"

Believe it or not, the Council on American-Islamic Relations might actually have something in common with tea party members. It's about last year's National Defense Authorization Act, which a federal judge ruled last week is vague enough to potentially allow for the indefinite detention of American ... More >>

Joe Kaufman Tells BSO to "Cease All Activities" With Muslims

South Florida's favorite anti-Islam nut bag masquerading as a Republican congressional candidate has his knickers in a twist over a recent meeting between Broward sheriff's officials and Muslim leaders.Joe Kaufman, head of the hate-mongering group Americans Against Hate, is upset because the sheriff ... More >>

Allen West May Have a Totally Legitimate Point About the Afghanistan Qur'an Burning

​When Congressman Allen West starts talking about Islam, people whose livelihoods depend on pageviews usually break out their camcorders, because the odds are pretty good someone's going to get really offended.But West has posted several Facebook messages about the recent uproar over the burning o ... More >>

South Florida Muslims Seek a New Way to Get Along in the Wake of Terrorism Charges and Bigotry

On 9/11 Anniversary, Allen West Blames "Radical" Islam, Never Mentions Bin Laden

West continues his anti-Islam rhetoric.​Ten years ago, as the Twin Towers fell, there were fears the attacks would bring on a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in America. Some people worried that every innocent citizen in a headscarf would be blamed for the terrorists' plot and that ethnic and religi ... More >>

Allen West Hosting "Controversial" Screening of Movie About Scary Muslims

Harriet Tubman​Rep. Allen West is doing some really important work today, hosting what he calls a "controversial screening" of a movie about how scary Muslims are.The film is called Sacrificed Survivors: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Mega Mosque, although it should really be called The Untol ... More >>

Allen West Headlines Bizarre Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theory Announcement

​Rep. Allen West made an appearance at Capitol Hill yesterday, alongside a group called Citizens for National Security, to unveil the "first-ever report of its kind" detailing the Muslim Brotherhood's supposed infiltration of America.In the words of the Citizens for National Security, William Saxt ... More >>

Religious Groups Gear Up For Margate Mosque Protest

Photo by Matthew Hendley"No Jihad in our backyard," one of the "pro-American" sentiments displayed at today's announcement​Mustaches, Gadsden flags, and rampant Islamophobia.We have the rest of the story too.Religious groups, tea party activists, and residents of Margate showed up this morning ... More >>

Four Thoughts For Islamophobes

​It's been a busy few weeks for Muslims, Muslim countries, and Islam in the news. Most of the coverage has not been favorable. Here, then, are four thoughts for readers who find themselves worrying about Muslims this Sunday. 1. Muslims serve in the military, too. Last week, the world learned that ... More >>

Margate Imam Arrested For Taliban Connection; But His Mosque Sure Seems Nice!

​Mufti and imam Izhar ul-Haq Khan has just been arrested for providing material support to the Taliban in Pakistan, planning the murder of Pakistani civilians, and plotting to overthrow the Pakistani government and replace it with a theocracy. But there's a lot more to the man! He's also "has a ... More >>

Allen West Interview: Florida Tea Party Favorite Talks About Islam and Donald Trump (Part 1)

Photo by Michael McElroy​The light is dim and smoky inside the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8182 in Pompano Beach. Red, white, and blue slogans brighten the low walls and ceilings, urging patrons to "Thank a Vet" and to remember "Freedom Is Not Free." At the far end of the small, bunker-sized roo ... More >>

Floridians Hate Muslims (And They're Not Alone)

The Celtics were deathly afraid of the Muslim Kareem Abdul Jabbar.​One week ago, for a split second, almost everyone in the world was united in relief and happiness. Now, a Delta pilot has refused to fly his plane with two Muslim clerics aboard.Early Saturday, the plane was nearing the runway at ... More >>

Qur'an-Burning Pastor Jailed for Insulting Murderous Theocrats

Pastor Terry Jones: Man, martyr, moron.​In America, one hopes, one must at least attempt to commit a crime before being punished for it. Not so if you happen to be Pastor Terry Jones, the irretrievably stupid Floridian preacher and Muslim-baiter. Last week found Jones in Dearborn, Michigan, prepar ... More >>

Sun-Sentinel: Terry Jones Qur'an Burning "Appalling"?

​The Sun-Sentinel has published an editorial that makes two points: (1) That Qur'an-burning Gainesville pastor Terry Jones bears no responsibility for the recent murders of U.N. workers and civilians in Afghanistan, and (2) that Jones' Qur'an-burning is "appalling." Wrongo, Sentinel. You can't hav ... More >>

Terry Jones Burns Qur'an; Mob Kills Ten UN Workers

2010 protest against Jones' Qur'an-burning.​Rev. Terry Jones is an asshole.There will be a lot of talk in the coming weeks about Jones' culpability for the murder of ten U.N. workers, and not a few Afghan citizens, in a Friday riot protesting Jones' burning of a Qur'an. Those on what passes for th ... More >>

Allen West "Brought Great Shame" to U.S., Says Muslim who Confronted the Congressman

Hamze asks West to point out a verse in the Qur'an calling on Muslims to attack America.​At a town-hall-style meeting February 21, Nezar Hamze stood to ask Allen West a pointed question. Hamze, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, asked West why he keeps claiming that t ... More >>

"Bhutto" Movie Review: Telling Pakistan's Story Through Its One-Time Leader

The Tea Party Is the Muslim Brotherhood of America? You Betcha

MSNBC's Chris Matthews made a remark yesterday comparing the Tea Party of America to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt. "So the Muslim Brotherhood has a parallel role here with the Tea Party," he said. "They're the ones who keep you honest and decide whether you've stayed too long?" That's what  ... More >>

Bookworms

White-nationalist reads in the United States and Europe reflect anti-migrant hatred in a grim economy.

Allen West Rewrites Two Millennia of Muslim Versus Christian History

Maryland radio station WCBM 680 posted a brief video this week of Congressman-elect Allen West that is 50 percent history lesson, 50 percent political polemic, and 100 percent classic Allen West. West, as it turns out, believes that the United States has been at war with Islam for a very, very long ... More >>

Anti-Islam Pastor Condemns Qur'an Burning by Gainesville Church

FlickrDozier thinks burning the Qur'an is "incitement," similar to the mosque planned for Ground Zero in Manhattan.​There are few pastors in America more extreme in their opposition to Islam than the Rev. O'Neal Dozier of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach. In 2007, Dozier sued to pre ... More >>

FAU to Open Can o' Worms -- er -- Middle East Institute

(left to right): Manjunath Pendakur, John F. Pritchett, Bob Newmark, Robert Rabil: Yet another peace effort.​Florida Atlantic University just can't leave well enough alone. It's been much too long since the school was accused of harboring terrorists -- but a day without anti-Muslim hysteria is a d ... More >>

A South Florida Muslim Leader Refused to Be a Snitch, so the Feds Tried to Destroy Him

Afghan Star

Boca, Please Rein in Your Race-Baiting Legislator

Flickr user: Hasner On the MoveHoly warrior: Hasner in a photo op with Israeli troopsAt first, it seemed like Delray Beach Rep. Adam Hasner just had one of those typical, post-9/11 freakouts, panicking at the prospect of a Muslim group's lobbying trip to Tallahassee. Then two weeks ago, we learned t ... More >>

We Head to Afghanistan to Find Out What's Been Gained by Eight Years of War

Guantánamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

Letters from the Issue of January 15, 2009

The Greatest Lesson

Obsession: Local Newspapers Distribute Right-Wing Propaganda

Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.

Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival

Letters for October 12-18, 2006

A New O'Neal?

Letters for September 21-27, 2006

Letters for August 31-September 6, 2006

Letters for August 24-30, 2006

Allah Drops In

The Christian right tries to muscle a Pompano Beach Islamic congregation.

Kane And Able, Part III

Dozier: Koran is 'Demonic'

Weisman's War

War: What Is It Good For?

In Ridley Scott's latest epic, it's good for one really stunning siege

Bush's Crimes

Impeach the president? Yes. A well-documented case ties him to Abu Ghraib.

St. Patrick's Week!

Get jiggy with the Irish

Muslim McCarthyism

A Miramar family gets the full suspect treatment

Letters for August 29, 2002

A whole lot of questionin’ goin’ on

Letters for August 15, 2002

Misreading Islam is fundamental

The War Within

Listen to the leaders of two South Florida mosques tied to terror

Babel in Boca

What Boca Raton's Jews and Muslims have here is a failure to communicate