Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 6:28:39 pm
The latest claim circulating about Imam Feisal Rauf, started at Pajamas Media by Madeline Brooks, is that he attended a “Hizb-ut Tahrir Conference” in 2007, with a “feeling of celebration.” It's just the latest in a long string of false allegations, and Jeffrey Imm of R.E.A.L. completely destroys it here: NYC ...

Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:46:31 pm
The LA Times has the complete text of President Obama's long-overdue statement on freedom of religion, the US Constitution, and the tide of prejudice that has risen up against the Cordoba House project and other mosques across the nation. The White House posted the full video: Celebrating Ramadan at the White ...

Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:25:27 pm
More than 40 prominent American religious leaders have released a joint statement strongly supporting the Cordoba House project and condemning the fear-mongers: Top Religious Leaders Denounce Growing Anti-Muslim Sentiment; Express Support for NY Mosque, Community Center: As Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars committed to religious ...

Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:03:51 am
The State Department responds to the ridiculous complaints by Republican populists that Imam Feisal Rauf shouldn't be sent overseas to represent and promote America. The State Department says its choice of Mr. Rauf to represent the US in a forthcoming trip to Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, reflects ...

Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:10:25 pm
Ya gotta love Bryan Fischer. Actually, not. When he isn't calling for Muslims to be banned from the armed forces, or saying the reason Hitler was so evil was because he was gay, he's demanding a complete ban on mosques in America. [Video]

Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:17:36 pm
Hatemonger Pamela Geller has apparently founded an "umbrella" group called the American Freedom Defense Initiative for her anti-Muslim activities, with an attorney named David Yerushalmi, and they are going to be allowed to put their misleading anti-Cordoba billboard on MTA buses in New York. Geller and Yerushalmi are using the ...

Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:15:48 am
Politico's Ben Smith has been collecting statements from possible Republican presidential candidates about the Park51 project (please stop calling it the "Ground Zero Mosque," people -- it's a deliberately misleading phrase coined by bigots), and it's a disturbing snapshot of the current state of the GOP. George W. Bush had many ...

Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:23:41 pm
Tea Party-endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate for New York, Carl Paladino, has released a campaign video attacking the Park51 project: "As governor, I will use the power of eminent domain to stop the mosque, and use the site as a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our ...

Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:48:20 am
The idea that the opposition to the Park51 Islamic community center in lower Manhattan is based on its proximity to the "sacred" Ground Zero is nothing more than a blatant lie. The proof is right in front of everyone, because the Bigot Brigade, empowered by their success in spreading populist hatred ...

Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:08:36 am
One of the main talking points used by opponents of the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is that the term "Cordoba House" was deliberately chosen by the Muslim developers to symbolize the Muslim conquest of Spain. Apparently we're supposed to believe that Imam Feisal Rauf can hardly suppress ...

Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:32:44 pm
Nevada Tea Party loon Sharron Angle has been trying to deflect Harry Reid's charges that she's too extreme, but as Jon Ralston points out at his Las Vegas Sun blog, she has a strange way of doing it -- by speaking at an event promoted by a "Doctors Tea Party" ...

Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:13:28 am
Today's the day Elena Kagan will probably be confirmed to the Supreme Court, and the loons' heads are exploding all over the Internet. The most absurd and bigoted piece I've found yet is at Andrew Breitbart's "Big Peace" website, where anti-Muslim fanatic Christine Brim has a ludicrous article accusing Kagan of ...

Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:57:04 am
It's time for the Bigot Brigade to stop claiming they speak for all the 9/11 families when they rant against the "Ground Zero mosque" (which is neither a mosque nor at Ground Zero), because there are victim's families who see clearly that the opposition to Park51 is driven by sheer ...

Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:17:55 pm
At New York's Governors Island this morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave an impassioned speech about Park51, the planned Muslim community center two blocks from Ground Zero, and its importance as a test of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. Bloomberg even apparently choked up at one point; ...

Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:09:04 am
In today's news about the Park51 project in lower Manhattan, the right wing hate machine is running amok. The two most popular right wing talk radio ranters, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, were both spewing hatred and irrationality this morning to their angry hordes of listeners. Beck labeled the Park51 project ...

Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:30:35 am
Crazed wingnut blogger Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller has a book out, which must have been a real chore for the unlucky editor who had to correct her misspellings and tortured grammar. Elon Green has a look at this work of fiction (co-written with her fellow anti-Muslim fascist sympathizer, Robert Spencer), ...

Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:05:35 am
At the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, Shirley Sherrod said she is going to sue Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart, meanwhile, is continuing the smear campaign, and today at his “Big Government” site, Greg Gutfeld actually whines that somebody needs to apologize to the Tea Party movement. It’s the ...

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:10:53 pm
The big right wing talking point against the proposed community center near Ground Zero in Manhattan (I refuse to call it a “Ground Zero Mega-Mosque!”) is that Ground Zero is sacred. Hallowed ground. It’s a deadly offense to think of a mosque on that sacred, hallowed ground, a “stab in ...

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:30:57 am
Oh noes! The wingnut stalkers are on to me. Is Charles Johnson of LGF a secret Muslim? The “reasoning” behind this plaintive question is that only a sekrit Moslem enemy could possibly believe Muslim Americans deserve constitutional rights and protections. Yep, really. This is what the bigotry virus looks like in an advanced ...

Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:21:25 pm
Here’s an email of a type I don’t get to feature too often; not a rant full of creepy insults or a smug gloat over some imagined right wing victory, but an actual email of support. Shocking, I know. I’ll admit that I veered away from LGF when the ...

Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:28:03 am
The Lt. Governor of Tennessee, Ron Ramsey, is running for governor. And he thinks America’s constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion may not apply to Muslims. At a recent event in Hamilton County, Ramsey was asked by a man in the audience about the “threat that’s invading our country from the ...

Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:31:01 pm
Yet another outrageous outrage is just now bubbling up to the surface, pushed by … I hope you’re sitting down … Drudge Report: White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. In this case, all you have to do to debunk this ridiculously misleading headline is read the story ...

Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:08:13 am
With all the absurd and deliberately distorted misinformation circulating around the Park51 project (the Bigot Brigade calls it the “Ground Zero mosque,” although it’s not actually at Ground Zero and will be a community center, not just a mosque), Aziz Poonawalla went to the source and interviewed the lead developer ...

Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:49:30 am
Anti-Muslim bloggers Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller used to frequently cite stories about radical Islamists forwarded to them by Jeffrey Imm; you’ll find hundreds of posts at their sites that refer to Mr. Imm. Well, their increasingly open bigotry and their outrageously paranoid, un-American group “Stop the Islamization of America” have ...

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:34:29 pm
Sarah Palin is doubling down on bigotry, with yet another Facebook post that brushes aside minor issues like tolerance and openness to get to what she really wants to say: Muslims shouldn’t have the same constitutional rights as other Americans. Sarah Palin: An Intolerable Mistake on Hallowed Ground | Facebook. ...