Thanksgiving 2011: How Muslims have come celebrate this day

November 24, 2011 By Wajahat Ali Leave a Comment

A manufactured controversy over halal Butterball turkeys is only the latest event in an ongoing evolution of the Muslim relationship with Thanksgiving and all things American.

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CAP report on Islamophobia: Fighting the defamation of Muslim Americans

August 26, 2011 By Wajahat Ali Leave a Comment

This report exposes these alleged “patriots” for what they really are: the primary motivators of fear and bigotry in an economically uncertain and politically volatile climate which urgently needs less hate, division and fear mongering.

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Radicalization hearings: Peter King’s subversive fantasy

March 11, 2011 By Wajahat Ali Leave a Comment

Most US terrorist plots have no Muslim connection, and 40% of all extremist plots in America were thwarted as a result of Muslim American help. So what exactly is this hearing for?

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Center for American Progress: Challenging Islamophobia

October 3, 2010 By Wajahat Ali Leave a Comment

What forces are behind the spike in anti-Muslim hate speech and what is their goal? Join altmuslim.com associate editor Wajahat Ali and others in discussing this important topic at a panel discussion at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC.

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Beauty pageants: How Miss USA will push the secret Muslim agenda

May 17, 2010 By Wajahat Ali Leave a Comment

A leaked memo confirms a nefarious plot to infiltrate America using the one weapon we can’t resist: Total hotness.

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Satire: South Park: The controversy continues

April 28, 2010 By Wajahat Ali Leave a Comment

In a special for Salon.com, our Associate Editor Wajahat Ali offers his take on the controversy over South Park. If you think South Park’s Muslim brouhaha was messy, you should see what’s going on in the neighboring town of East Park.

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Art: Jihad Jane and the Muhammad cartoons

March 15, 2010 By Wajahat Ali Leave a Comment

Art can be used as a loaded cultural and political weapon to incite animosity amidst an already hostile climate dominated by foolish controversies — or it can be used wisely and bravely as a common language to bridge the divides.

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Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim: “The Malaysian people will not easily be fooled”

March 5, 2010 By Wajahat Ali Leave a Comment

Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is on trial in Kuala Lumpur on sodomy charges for a second time, speaks to Wajahat Ali about the controversy and discusses the country’s ethnic and religious conflicts and issues facing the Muslim world.

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Domestic violence: Remembering Aasiya Zubair

February 15, 2010 By Wajahat Ali Leave a Comment

Last year the tragic beheading of Aasiya Zubair jolted a dormant Muslim American community to finally acknowledge and proactively confront the hidden scourge of domestic violence in its midst

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Haiti earthquake: The Muslim response to Haiti

January 29, 2010 By Wajahat Ali Leave a Comment

Although the journey to rebuilding Haiti is long and painstaking, Muslim relief efforts worldwide prove that sometimes our most reliable and effective partners in humanitarian endeavors are not always the ones we expect.

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