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NYPD Stops Routine Surveillance of Muslims
By
Suzy Shuraym
It’s about time! The New York Police Department has shut down its controversial Muslim surveillance program. As reported on The Huffington Post, the decision “comes amidst two federal lawsuits against the NYPD’s secretive Demographics Unit, and is the first major indication Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is distancing himself from some of the post-9/11 tactics established…
“Innocence of Muslims”
By
Suzy Shuraym
“Google must take down a controversial anti-Muslim video on YouTube that sparked protests across the Muslim world because keeping it on the website violates the rights of an actress who sued after she was duped into appearing in the film,” reports Howard Mintz of the San Jose (California) Mercury News. “In a 2-1 decision, the…
Gender Segregation
By
Suzy Shuraym
Religious Freedom, Secular Forum, penned by Kenan Malik and printed in The New York Times discusses a topic that has come up many times in non-Muslim-majority countries: “Should gender segregation be allowed in Muslim public meetings.” Please note that we’re not talking about gender segregation in religious services, but at forums open to the public…
Richard Dawkins is Not an Islamophobe
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Suzy Shuraym
“The fact [Richard] Dawkins presents – that so few Muslims have won Nobel Prizes — does raise legitimate questions that Dawkins himself addresses in a blog post about the controversy he stirred up by his tweet. He points out that in view of the grandiose claims advanced by some Muslims for the ‘science’ contained in…
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