Thursday October 11, 2012
In a lengthy and scathing report, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded that the fusion centers “forwarded intelligence of uneven quality — oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens’ civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism.” Read More »
Thursday October 04, 2012
Last night’s presidential debate focused on a wide range of important political issues, and displayed many of the significant differences – and similarities – between the two candidates. However, the issues ignored by the debate were equally illustrative. Read More »
Friday September 28, 2012
AAI is continuously tracking key congressional races across the country. One trend AAI is tracking closely is whether or not the electoral tide will turn against candidates who espouse hate speech and Islamophobia. With just over a month until the election, it appears as though many of Congress’s most notorious Islamophobes stand a good chance of losing their seats and that several challengers who have turned to bigoted rhetoric are unlikely to be elected. Read More »
Friday September 28, 2012
There is an alternative explanation for the public’s ready acceptance of torture and assassination that Zegart was too quick to dismiss. Obama has, with the notable exception of torture, kept almost all of George W. Bush’s national security infrastructure intact, and has even escalated a number of its components. Read More »
Wednesday September 26, 2012
The Bronx District Attorney’s Office has dealt a blow to the city’s Stop-and-Frisk law. The New York Times reports that the District Attorney’s Office will no longer prosecute individuals arrested for trespassing at public housing complexes unless they are able to interview the arresting officer and confirm that the arrest was warranted. Read More »
Wednesday September 26, 2012
The New Jersey ACLU has released a free iPhone app that allows citizens to record their interactions with police. “Police Tape,” which runs off the iOS operating system on iPhones and iPads, disappears from the screen once it starts recording. Read More »
Monday September 24, 2012
By Vieshnavi Rattehalli
Staff Sgt. Nur recognizes that a lack of education fuels the anger and misperceptions on both sides of the rift: Even among her rather well-educated colleagues in the military where she feels discrimination is less pervasive than in the civilian world, she hears the occasional less-than-sensitive comments. Nur feels that these comments are fueled by anger at the terrorists, rather than at a blanket hatred of all Arabs or Muslims. Read More »
Monday September 24, 2012
The most creative responses to this ad campaign, however, have emerged through Twitter, where opponents of bigotry and advocates of tolerance are using the hashtag #MySubwayAd to promote their alternative texts for what they would like to see posted in the subway system. Follow the hashtag for some funny commentary and some inspiring pronouncements. Also, if you want to do your own versions of "In any war between X and X, support X. Support X. Defeat X" (fill in the blanks), be sure to tweet them at us! We'll be retweeting the most creative lines. Read More »
Friday September 21, 2012
By Emily Jabareen
The recent attack on the Islamic Center (mosque) of the Shenandoah Valley, VA, garnered little media attention. The Associated Press reported on the incident the day of its occurrence, September 15th, just a few days after the bewildering and sudden outburst of violence that unfolded in Benghazi, Libya. Read More »
Thursday September 20, 2012
Yesterday, The Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights held a hearing entitled “Hate Crimes and the Threat of Domestic Extremism.” Attendance at the hearing and the number of organizations submitting written testimony for the record were quite large, displaying a heartening level of solidarity with communities affected by hate crimes. AAI took an active role in the effort to urge for this hearing in the wake of recent attacks on places of worship across the country. Read More »
Monday September 17, 2012
As for the anti-American sentiment that does exist in the Middle East, it has just as much to do with “their culture” and “our freedom” as anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views here in the U.S. have to do with “our religion” and “their falafel and hummus.” Just as hate here builds when the bigots exploit tragedies like 9/11 to foment the anti-Arab/Muslim sentiments, hate there builds when fanatics exploit a wide range of terrible American policies to promote anti-Americanism. Read More »
Monday September 17, 2012
On September 19, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to convene a hearing on hate crimes and domestic extremism. While the hearing has been spurred, in part, by the recent tragedy in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, it will seek to elevate the concerns surrounding hate crimes and domestic extremism that all communities and Americans face in this country. Read More »
Friday September 14, 2012
The good news: U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest dealt a severe blow to the practice of indefinite detention by deciding to make her injunction permanent. The bad news: the House has voted to reauthorize warrantless wiretapping for another five years. Read More »
Thursday September 13, 2012
The House of Representatives voted yesterday to extend the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act through 2017. Civil liberties advocates have long criticized FISA, which authorizes warrantless monitoring of electronic communications – from phone calls to emails – of foreigners as well as U.S. citizens. Read More »
Thursday September 13, 2012
By Emily Jabareen
Yemeni citizen Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif died this past Saturday in his Guantanamo Bay prison cell. Though the main reason for his death was not disclosed in the official military announcement released Tuesday, the timing of his death sets the tone for a larger discussion of the US government’s legal handling of his case. Read More »
Tuesday September 11, 2012
Tomorrow congress will vote on the five-year reauthorization (H.R. 5949) of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), the 2008 law that legalized the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. Read More »
Monday September 10, 2012
By Jennine Vari
On September 4th, Virginia elections officials ruled that former Congressman Virgil Goode Jr. will be listed as a third-party presidential candidate on the ballot in Virginia, possibly threatening Mitt Romney’s chances of winning the swing state. The GOP is now concerned that Goode’s nomination by the conservative Constitution Party could siphon votes from Romney and tip the scales in favor of Barack Obama.
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Friday August 31, 2012
In September, the Michigan Court of Appeals will hear arguments on whether the Islamic Cultural Association can move forward with its plans to convert the Eagle Elementary School, which it purchased in 2010 for $1.1 million, into a mosque. Read More »
Monday August 27, 2012
Conducted on August 15th and 16th, The American Divide: How We View Arabs and Muslims, surveyed American attitudes toward Arabs, Muslims and eleven other groups and religions. Among other things, the poll highlights a sharp generational and partisan divide with respect to views on Arabs and Muslims. Read More »
Friday August 24, 2012
Voter suppression has been the story of the 2012 elections, and Florida has been in the thick of it. Read More »
Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
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RT @MaiE_89: In the 1990’s, #Egypt had a 60% favorable rating among Americans, while today only 36% of US views the country positively via @AAIUSA
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The Muslim Brotherhood has a negative favorable/unfavorable ratio of 30%–47%
http://t.co/rMKu4JJrgW
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Looking at Iran by James Zogby
Kahlil Gibran Awards Gala - April 16, 2013President Obama got it just about perfect in his Jerusalem speech when he urged Israelis to see the world through the eyes of Palestinians. That portion of his remarks was so compelling it deserves to be quoted in full: Read More »
Air Date: 5/31/2012
Fellows from Syracuse University’s “Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program (LDF); Bill Press, Host of the “Bill Press Show” and author of the new book, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Read More »
The story of Arab Americans coming of age as an organized community is a classic American tale of immigrants seeking opportunity, benefiting from America’s freedoms, but also experiencing, at times, the dark side of exclusion and discrimination that has so often been a part of our nation’s history. Read More »
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