NYPD Scandals Keep Rolling In – Ta-Nehisi Coates – National – The Atlantic

Sen. Durbin chairs first ever hearing on the civil rights of U.S. Muslims on March 29 – Lynn Sweet. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) holds a hearing on the civil rights of U.S. Muslims on March 29—the first of its kind–a pointed response to a hearing held earlier this month on terrorism in the U.S. Muslim community chaired by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.).

Where Were the Tunisian Islamists? – NYTimes.com. The Tunisian revolt helps clarify a reality about Arab life: The terrorism we’ve seen over the past few years, with its utopian millennialism, doesn’t stem from the real societies of the Middle East. More Islamic radicals are to be found in the West than at home.

Matt Reed: What you didn’t know about Sharia law, privatization , GOP election ‘reforms.’ | FLORIDA TODAY | floridatoday.com. Since 9/11, authorities have identified an average of seven Muslim-American terror suspects a year in domestic plots or attacks, including those caught in the early stages of planning, according to tracking by UNC sociologist Charles Kurzman. Those bad guys (and gals) represent 0.0004 percent of the U.S. Muslim population.  Tip of the iceberg, you say? Even if we multiplied the number of known domestic plotters by 10, it would still mean that 99.996 percent of U.S. Muslims have had no link…