islamophobia
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Woman Goes on Hate-Filled Anti-Muslim Rant on New York City Bus: 'ICE is Here For You'
People continue to show their whole entire asses to the world (through viral cellphone footage) and one woman filmed on a New York City bus during her hateful anti-Muslim rant is no exception. The footage of the interaction shows the woman, who identifies herself proudly as Ashley (of course she’s an Ashley) yelling at a…
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‘Get Out of My Country’: Florida Man Arrested After Attacking Men With Knife, Stun Gun at McDonald’s: Report
Florida strikes again. On Wednesday, the St. Johns County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office arrested 60-year-old John Jay Smith after authorities say he went on a racist rant, while armed, outside a local McDonald’s against two men he believed to be Muslim or of Middle Eastern descent. According to First Coast News, the incident occurred early Wednesday…
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3 Kansas Men Found Guilty of Plot to Bomb Muslims, Kill Obama
After a four-week trial, it took a Wichita, Kan., jury one day to convict three white dudes who watched too many episodes of The A-Team of hatching a convoluted plan to kill government officials and bomb a Garden City, Kan., apartment complex where Somali Muslims lived. A federal jury found Curtis Allen, 50; Gavin Wright,…
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Moms Took Kids to Mosque to Broadcast Islamophobic Rant on Facebook Live
Two Arizona mothers live-streamed themselves inside a Tempe, Ariz., mosque yelling Islamophobic statements in front of their children, according to CNN. In the March 4 Facebook Live video, Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer are inside the Islamic Community Center of Tempe claiming to expose “Shariah law in America” and “the illegal invasion of Muslims.” They…
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Black Florida Teacher Under Fire for Tweeting White Supremacist Propaganda … and Sis, What Are You Doing?
Man, I know Florida gets a bad rap, but when things like this pop up, I really have to wonder about what’s in the water down there, and how a black middle school teacher could be caught spreading racist propaganda about Muslims, including posts shared by white supremacist groups. Like, sis. But apparently that’s what…
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Did Trump Actually Apologize for Spreading Racist, Hateful Nonsense?
The short answer is nah, fam—regardless of what other headlines might tell you. While in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday for its annual global economic forum, President Donald Trump gave a sort-of apology for retweeting a far-right British group’s videos supposedly showing Islamist violence. In conversation with Piers Morgan (in what sounds like the pastiest, molted…
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Republican Lawmaker Claims Las Vegas White Terrorist Attack Was the Work of Islamic State Group
On Thursday, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) appeared on whatever show it is that Tucker Carlson hosts for Fox News and proceeded to make several bold claims that the Islamic State group was the real perpetrator behind the Las Vegas massacre in October that left 58 people dead. “I smell a rat like a lot of…
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President Trump Is the Single Biggest Threat to Muslims After Sharing Islamophobic Videos on Twitter
On Wednesday, for no apparent reason other than that he’s a xenophobic piece of garbage who openly hates an entire religious group with a passion seen only by white men wearing hoods (or khakis) and wielding torches, the president of the United States retweeted Islamophobic posts from Britain’s far-right, fascist party, Britain First. The videos,…
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‘Radical Christian Terrorism’: Doesn’t Sound Nice, Does It?
Radical Islamic terror. Islamic. Terror. When you separate those words, they can’t be any more diametrically opposed. The dictionary defines terrorism as “the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion,” or as “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in pursuit of political, religious or ideological aims.” Islam—the religion…