A Conservative Jewish synagogue near of Boston is facing harsh criticism for hosting three prominent anti-Islam speakers at an event scheduled for the evening of Nov. 2. The Boston Globe reported Monday morning that a group of 100 Boston-area clergy had written a letter to the synagogue, Ahavath Torah Congregation in Stoughton, Mass., asking them…
The first time I ever experienced anti-Semitism was in Europe. I was waiting for a bus on Avenue Niel in Paris’s 17th arrondissement when I noticed an elderly woman looking at me from across the street. She was small, with wispy white hair and a shopping basket filled with vegetables and a baguette. The way…
A prominent Jewish leader is siding with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call for profiling Muslims in America. Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, said he believed there is a need to employ religious profile measures in order to deal with Muslim terrorism in the United States. “In an era in…
More than 200 protesters, some armed, berated Islam and its Prophet Mohammed outside an Arizona mosque on Friday in a provocative protest that was denounced by counterprotesters shouting “Go home, Nazis,” weeks after an anti-Muslim event in Texas came under attack by two gunmen. The anti-Muslim event outside the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix was…
There were no suspects in last week’s failed attack at a civic center outside Dallas other than the two men who were fatally shot while trying to storm an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, police said on Monday. Roommates Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi of Phoenix were killed by a Garland police officer…
Long written off by mainstream critics as an Islamophobic crackpot, Pamela Geller is winning increasing sums from financial backers with her blood-and-thunder warnings against the religion of Muhammad. Geller is also having an undeniable impact on the national conversation about Islam. The activist, whose anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, was besieged by two gunmen, has,…
Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Two government sources who asked not to be named said the shooters were roommates Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, of Phoenix. Court documents…
(Reuters) — Texas police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire on Sunday outside an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that was organized by a group described as anti-Islamic and billed as a free-speech event. Citing a senior FBI official, ABC News identified one of the gunmen as Elton Simpson, an Arizona man…
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