Zombie Lie: Right Still Clinging To Decade-Old Fabrication About Radicalized Mosques | Media Matters for America

My friend Moushumi has a piece up on how immigrants should enter the American discourse on race. I think it’s a good message for the first-generation, but my feeling is that if the second-plus generation doesn’t get it now, they aren’t going to. Election 2008, race

The Anti-Muslim Machine < Killing the Buddha. the shitstorm that just passed through town is a familiar one. The proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan is the Brooklyn “madrassa” all over again, with the same cast of conservative activists working to block the mainstreaming of Muslims in the public sphere. Imam Abdul Feisal Rauf wants to create essentially a Muslim YMCA in Lower Manhattan? They say he supports Hamas and has terrorist ties. Debbie Almontaser wanted to head a public school that’d specialize in Arabic? Also—you guessed it—a Hamas supporter with terrorist ties. And repeat.

Behind the Bars of Supermax, Contemplating Aristotle and Islamic Extremism – Document – NYTimes.com. Randall Todd Royer, 38, a Missouri-born Muslim convert known as Ismail, is nearly eight years into a 20-year prison sentence for helping friends go to an extremist training camp in Pakistan. In the highest-security prison in the United States, known as the federal Supermax, he wrote about prison life and his views about Islamic extremism in a year-long written correspondence with a New York Times reporter.