Muslim family removed from AirTran flight for "safest seat" remark

"The conversation, as we were walking through the plane trying to find our seats, was just about where the safest place in an airplane is," Sahin said. "We were (discussing whether it was safest to sit near) the wing, or the engine or the back or the front, but that's it. We didn't say anything else that would raise any suspicion." The conversation did not contain the words "bomb," "explosion," "terror" or other words that might have aroused suspicion, Irfan said.

Another case of "flying while Muslim."

Jewish parents deny Arab girl place in Jezreel Valley daycare

The opposition of a group of parents has caused a daycare in Moshav Merhavia to reject the registration of a young Arab toddler from a nearby village.

Not that Jews are racists or anything like that - it's just that the little Arab girl may grow up to be a terrorist...

Muslim scientist wants review of security case

Feds say man lost job, security clearance because he was a threat

Abdel Moniem El-Ganayni, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group, sued the department earlier this year, saying he was wrongly fired for speaking out against U.S. foreign policy and the alleged mistreatment of Muslims by the FBI.

Muslim researchers sue Texas A&M for religious discrimination

Two former Texas A&M University researchers allege colleagues threw animal feces and urine on their prayer rug and routinely mocked and mistreated them because they are Muslims from Iraq, according to a federal lawsuit.

• "The folks at A&M treated them horribly because they looked different, ate different food and spoke differently and because they are from Iraq and Muslim," the couple's lawyer, Shane McClelland, was quoted as saying in Friday's online editions of the Houston Chronicle.

Iraqi Christians protest end to legislative quotas

Iraqi Christians carry Assyrian Church flags, during a protest in Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. Hundreds of Iraqi Christians rallied in northern Iraq on Sunday to protest a new provincial elections law they say denies them their rights because it fails to give them a guaranteed number of seats on provincial councils. Amid growing criticism over the issue, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appealed to parliament and the electoral commission to restore the quota guaranteed in the old election law. (AP Photo)

Parliament last week approved a new law mandating elections in most of Iraq's 18 provinces. But the law removed a system that reserved a few legislative seats for Christians and other religious minorities.

Religious quotas?? I wonder how that would go over in the American Congress???

UK Magistrate Censured Over Niqab

"Britain's Judicial Communications Office that speaks for the Lord Chief Justice has censured a magistrate for refusing to deal with a face-veiled Muslim woman, The Telegraph reported on Wednesday, January 9."

CHRISTIANS BRUTALIZED IN HOLY LAND

"Besides the fact that Israel has now become a haven for international gangsters—meaning rampant prostitution, drugs, human trafficking and money laundering to name a few—there are other indicators surrounding Israel’s political and social character as well that show she is anything but friendly to the morals and precepts of Christian teachings. Christian churches that were not taxed are now being sent heavy bills. Media outlets featuring Christian programming on television and radio are having their license renewal applications rejected.

More telling though is the fact that physical attacks on Christians, their symbols and institutions continue in Israel unabated, and not by “Islamo-fascists” (so much discussed by the likes of Norman Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes, John Hagee, Bill O’Reilly, et al.) but rather by a more fanatical sect that has nursed a hatred for Christianity since its inception, the people who collectively call themselves “the Israelites” and whom Christians are told to “bless.”"

Does U.S. tolerate anti-Muslim speech?

A target? Some observers say Muslim-Americans, like these worshipers at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, Ohio, are the subject of hate speech.Melanie Stetson Freeman – staff/file

"My sense is that you could say anti-Muslim comments that you could never get away with, saying for example, as anti-Jewish comments," said Stephen Wessler of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence in Portland, Maine. "There's a much greater public level of acceptance of denigrating Muslims."