http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/benjamin-bull-should-critically-discussing-islam-be-a-form-of-hate-speech/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/benjamin-bull-should-critically-discussing-islam-be-a-form-of-hate-speech/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 17:37:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133547 Benjamin Bull at American Thinker: Several days ago, I noted with interest that Danish journalist and historian Lars Hedegaard has been acquitted by a unanimous Dutch Supreme Court of charges that he violated Holland's notorious "hate speech" laws. His crime? He made a public utterance that state prosecutors concluded was "denigrating" of Islam. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/14/benjamin-bull-should-critically-discussing-islam-be-a-form-of-hate-speech/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/cair-to-file-suit-over-muslim-treatment-at-border/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/cair-to-file-suit-over-muslim-treatment-at-border/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:51:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131036 Detroit News: A Muslim rights advocacy group says it's filing suit against the FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection for what it says is the mistreatment of Muslims at the U.S.-Canada border. The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/12/cair-to-file-suit-over-muslim-treatment-at-border/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/27/aclu-cair-call-for-probe-into-w-h-funding-for-muslim-surveillance/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/27/aclu-cair-call-for-probe-into-w-h-funding-for-muslim-surveillance/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:14:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126982 Politico: The American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations are separately calling for investigations into White House funding of a domestic spying program launched by the New York Police Department against Muslim-Americans. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/27/aclu-cair-call-for-probe-into-w-h-funding-for-muslim-surveillance/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/31/boykin-relieves-pressure-on-west-point/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/31/boykin-relieves-pressure-on-west-point/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:13:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124563 OneNewsNow.com: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) teamed up with the liberal veterans group VoteVets.org and with anti-Christian crusader Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation to petition West Point to disinvite Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin (USA-Ret.) from the February 8 event. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/31/boykin-relieves-pressure-on-west-point/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/04/cair-asks-va-law-school-to-drop-speaker-who-says-annihilate-islam/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/04/cair-asks-va-law-school-to-drop-speaker-who-says-annihilate-islam/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:30:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115396 PR Newswire at sacbee.com: A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization is calling on Virginia's George Mason University School of Law to disinvite Nonie Darwish, a notorious Islamophobe who has stated that Islam is a "poison to a society" that is "based on lies" and must be "annihilated." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/04/cair-asks-va-law-school-to-drop-speaker-who-says-annihilate-islam/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/22/california-councilman-names-dog-mohammed%e2%80%9d-cair-demands-he-apologize/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/22/california-councilman-names-dog-mohammed%e2%80%9d-cair-demands-he-apologize/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:24:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=114363 EuropeNews: Naming his dog Muhammad, and later announcing it during a public meeting, was not meant to be disparaging to Muslims, San Juan Capistrano Councilman Derek Reeve said Tuesday. In offering the first explanation of why he chose the name, Reeve said it was a decision made by his family in an exercise of free speech after teaching his children that in some parts of the world they could be sentenced to death for doing so. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/22/california-councilman-names-dog-mohammed%e2%80%9d-cair-demands-he-apologize/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/10/aclu-and-cair-urge-court-to-uphold-ruling-blocking-oklahoma-sharia-and-international-law-ban/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/10/aclu-and-cair-urge-court-to-uphold-ruling-blocking-oklahoma-sharia-and-international-law-ban/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 16:36:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=103216 ACLU press release: The American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit late Monday, urging the court to uphold a ruling that blocked implementation of a discriminatory and unnecessary Oklahoma state constitutional amendment that prohibits courts from applying – or even considering – what is broadly described as Islamic "Sharia law" and “international law.” . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/10/aclu-and-cair-urge-court-to-uphold-ruling-blocking-oklahoma-sharia-and-international-law-ban/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/06/muslim-leaders-say-they-were-taken-off-tenn-flight/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/06/muslim-leaders-say-they-were-taken-off-tenn-flight/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 21:36:23 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=103055 AP: Two Muslim religious leaders say they were removed from a commercial airliner in Memphis on Friday and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/05/06/muslim-leaders-say-they-were-taken-off-tenn-flight/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/23/aclu-and-cair-accuse-fbi-of-violating-muslims-rights-at-cal-mosque/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/23/aclu-and-cair-accuse-fbi-of-violating-muslims-rights-at-cal-mosque/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:54:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=96247 AP: "Two civil liberties groups have sued the FBI, claiming that one of the agency's former informants was ordered to target Muslims for surveillance when he infiltrated a California mosque." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/23/aclu-and-cair-accuse-fbi-of-violating-muslims-rights-at-cal-mosque/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/cair-says-poster-warning-against-helping-fbi-is-misinterpreted/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/cair-says-poster-warning-against-helping-fbi-is-misinterpreted/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:34:41 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=91736 Fox News: "The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it will remove a poster from the group's website promoting an upcoming conference that encourages people not to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The poster, which appeared on the website of CAIR’s California chapter, features a sinister-looking FBI agent with the headlines 'Build a Wall of Resistance' and 'Don’t Talk to the FBI.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/17/cair-says-poster-warning-against-helping-fbi-is-misinterpreted/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/30/muslim-family-sues-ill-forest-preserve-for-discrimination/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/30/muslim-family-sues-ill-forest-preserve-for-discrimination/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:39:57 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=89096 ABC Local: "The Cook County Forest Preserve is being sued by a Muslim family who claims religious discrimination because they were denied admission to a swimming facility." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/12/30/muslim-family-sues-ill-forest-preserve-for-discrimination/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/21/npr-ends-williams-contract-after-muslim-remarks/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/21/npr-ends-williams-contract-after-muslim-remarks/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:20:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=77635 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/21/npr-ends-williams-contract-after-muslim-remarks/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/14/cair-family-community-leaders-to-respond-to-doj-report-on-mich-imams-killing/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/14/cair-family-community-leaders-to-respond-to-doj-report-on-mich-imams-killing/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:35:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=76622 PR Newswire: "Later today (October 14), the family of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah and community leaders will hold a news conference in Detroit to offer their response to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division that exonerated FBI agents in the fatal shooting of Imam Abdullah last October." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/14/cair-family-community-leaders-to-respond-to-doj-report-on-mich-imams-killing/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/14/congressional-muslim-staffers-hosted-second-al-qaeda-cleric-on-capitol-hill/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/14/congressional-muslim-staffers-hosted-second-al-qaeda-cleric-on-capitol-hill/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:03:19 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=76590 Pajamas Media: " Last month, I reported exclusively at PJM about video showing al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki leading prayers on Capitol Hill for Muslim congressional staffers and officials for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) . . . But a recent New York Post article about how Johnson’s former employer, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), complained to Homeland Security in 2006 about the questioning of another al-Qaeda-linked cleric, Anwar Hajjaj, stated that Hajjaj was then leading prayers for the Muslim staffers on Capitol Hill." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/14/congressional-muslim-staffers-hosted-second-al-qaeda-cleric-on-capitol-hill/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/14/cair-ny-seeks-hate-crime-charges-in-attack-on-muslim-mother-child/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/14/cair-ny-seeks-hate-crime-charges-in-attack-on-muslim-mother-child/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:57:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=76570 PR Newswire: "The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today called for state and federal hate crime charges to be brought against a man who allegedly used religious slurs while attacking a Muslim mother and her 4-year-old son." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/14/cair-ny-seeks-hate-crime-charges-in-attack-on-muslim-mother-child/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/12/council-on-american-islamic-relations-launches-%e2%80%98islamophobia%e2%80%99-division-cnsnews-com/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/12/council-on-american-islamic-relations-launches-%e2%80%98islamophobia%e2%80%99-division-cnsnews-com/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:39:52 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=76313 CNSNews: "In doing so, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is following the example of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the 57-member bloc of Islamic states. The OIC set up an 'observatory' five years ago to monitor and report on incidents and trends around the world it regards as amounting to 'Islamophobia.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/12/council-on-american-islamic-relations-launches-%e2%80%98islamophobia%e2%80%99-division-cnsnews-com/feed/ 0