January 14 2021
More than 100 elected leaders, community organizations have called for Clackamas County Commissioner Mark Shull to immediately resign.
Leaders in Oregon s Muslim community have rejected an embattled Clackamas County Commissioner s plans for outreach and apologies saying his hate speech requires an immediate resignation.
Newly-elected Commissioner Mark Shull referred to Muslim Americans as invaders and savages as recently as mid-2019 in his Facebook posts and called for military force against them, including extermination outside the lands of Islam.
And while the former lieutenant colonel told The Oregonian he plans to meet with Muslim leaders to build understanding, the most prominent officials in that community say they haven t heard from him.
Early wins against Trump immigration order may not last – Politicoby wpjljron
Monday, January 30th, 2017.Early wins against Trump immigration order may not last – PoliticoImmigrant rights groups scored a series of early court victories against President Donald Trump’s terrorism-focused executive order limiting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, but legal experts and administration officials said the impact of those initial legal victories could prove fleeting. There is little doubt the orders issued by federal judges in New York, Boston, […]
Immigrant rights groups scored a series of early court victories against President Donald Trump’s terrorism-focused executive order limiting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, but legal experts and administration officials said the impact of those initial legal victories could prove fleeting.
Unconditionally Critical
In the opening pages of Laila Lalami’s memoir-cum-manifesto,
Conditional Citizens, the Moroccan-born novelist tells a story presumably experienced by a select number of naturalized Americans. Returning home from a sojourn abroad in 2000, Lalami, a newly christened citizen of the great republic and bearing a freshly minted passport, is met with a distinctly inhospitable greeting. While passing through Customs at Los Angeles International Airport, she and her husband hand over their passports to the waiting border agent. After examining their documents, the official, wearing “a conspiratorial smile,” turned to the husband and said, “How many camels did you have to trade in for her?”
CT attorney general to look into corrections officer accused of posting offensive meme
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Attorney General William TongMatthew Brown / Hearst Connecticut Media
Attorney General William Tong has directed staff to “look into” accusations that a Department of Corrections officer posted an offensive meme on his social media account.
CAIR-CT claims Marlak posted a meme on a Facebook account, under the pseudonym “Anthony David,” depicting five men hanging from a rope by their necks with the caption “Islamic Wind Chimes” and a comment reading: “Think I found the best meme on the planet!”
“Officer Marlak’s posting is blatantly bigoted and is actually a violation of the Department’s social media policy because it undermines public confidence in the DOC’s commitment to racial equality and religious tolerance,” said Farhan Memon, chairman of CAIR-CT, in the letter.