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We encourage people to express their views to participate in rallies for whatever cause they believe in but no one has the right to engage in violence, hate speech or intimidation, we understand that passions are high but that's not an excuse for inappropriate behavior.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think our position from the beginning is no organization should profit from bigotry.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We thank local law enforcement officials for their prompt and professional response to this disturbing incident, which is apparently another example of the growing Islamophobia targeting American Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We see that, in fact, the American-Muslim community is the prime defender of the U.S. Constitution. We see no conflict between Islamic beliefs and practices and living as a productive, contributing citizen whether it’s in Australia or America.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Instead of stating you can be a good Australian and a good Muslim at the same time, he’s somehow throwing Islam under the bus and that’s where he got in trouble, muslims around the world follow sharia law every day of their lives when they pray, when they fast. There is no inherent conflict being a law-abiding Australian or American and practicing Islam. That’s a false premise.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The problem comes when you look at a dichotomy between being an Australian or an American and being a Muslim. We don’t see a dichotomy, we see that, in fact, the American-Muslim community is the prime defender of the U.S. Constitution. We see no conflict between Islamic beliefs and practices and living as a productive, contributing citizen whether it’s in Australia or America.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We believe that if the victims had not been wearing headscarves, had they not been Muslim, that this incident would not have occurred.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
These two forms of hostility seem to be overlapping and reinforcing each other.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Every mosque all over the country has nightly Ramadan activities, so they're vulnerable.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have called for stepped-up police presence not only for that mosque but others in that state, every mosque all over the country has nightly Ramadan activities, so they're vulnerable.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Everyone has a right to be a bigot if they want to, but not on a state-issued license plate.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's part of an overall toxic anti-Muslim atmosphere that we're seeing, particularly in the past few weeks with Paris and San Bernardino, anti-Muslim bigotry was still on the fringes after 9/11. But it's moving toward the mainstream thanks to Donald Trump, Ben Carson and these types of comments.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is an extremely old issue that has been circulated endlessly on anti-Muslim hate sites and it’s a bit surprising to see an elected official promoting these kinds of Islamophobic smears.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think it is symptomatic of the overall rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in our society. We saw a multitude of these incidents after the San Bernardino (California) shootings. I think these incidents will only increase, unfortunately, it's this whole thing where the flight crew is uncomfortable or the passengers are uncomfortable. Why are they uncomfortable? Because of a perceived faith and ethnicity that leads to them being thrown off planes. It's very troubling.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We’re entering into the realm of the fascist now, it should be disturbing not only to American Muslims, but it should be disturbing to all Americans that the leading Republican presidential candidate would issue essentially a fascist statement like this.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are seeing I think a more toxic anti-Muslim environment or atmosphere than we have seen since 9/11, in some ways it’s worse because it’s been mainstreamed by public figures like Donald Trump or Ben Carson so it’s seen as a natural, normal kind of thing.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are operating in an atmosphere of hysteria and fear, i have never seen it like this, not even after 9/11.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is way beyond the pale, this is basically a call to persecute a religious minority based on nothing other than their faith.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If anyone mistreats women, they should not seek refuge in Islam.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We’ve never requested that the Bureau of Prisons remove pork from all of its menus. We would have no reason to.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
People of good will just need to get together and marginalize her type of anti-Muslim hatred.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We’re not going to chase her from city to city trying to undo the hatred she promotes, we’d be doing little else. She seems to have an unending capacity for the promotion of hatred.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It’s been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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