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Roseanne Barr’s most recent racist tweet has now caused her show to be cancelled, but she was riddled with red flags from the get-go. Tweeting on Tuesday that Valerie Jarrett, who served as an adviser to former President Barack Obama, looks like the “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes…
More racists are feeling emboldened to rear their hateful heads in Trump’s America. This time, a 60-year-old man was arrested in Florida after going on a racist rant directed at a group of men he perceived as Muslim. John Jay Smith went on his tirade at a McDonald’s in St….
Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer decided it was a good idea to post videos on Facebook of their road trip with three children and two dogs to steal materials from the Islamic Community Center of Tempe mosque to stop “an illegal takeover of everything” by Muslims. Ironically, the videos got…
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Port Barre, La.) wants to use “every conceivable measure” to hunt down and kill anyone suspected of being an Islamic radical. Higgins’ rhetoric is similar to when he was a sheriff’s captain and threatened to hunt and trap suspected gang members he referred to as “animals.”…
Several states have joined a Washington lawsuit to prevent President Donald Trump’s updated Muslim ban from going into effect, arguing that it is still as discriminatory as the original. California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon have all signed on as plaintiffs in the newest filing. “Like the First Executive…
On Monday President Donald Trump signed a revised version of his ban on travel for people from certain Muslim-majority countries. However, in light of newly obtained information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as the still discriminatory nature of the newest ban, the order was met with…
As more incidents of anti-Semitism take the national spotlight, about 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia were overturned this weekend, police reported. This comes just one week after about 150 headstones were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Missouri. Aaron Mallin made the discovery at Mount Carmel Cemetery…
A new move by President Donald Trump’s administration would remove white nationalists and other hate groups from extremism databases, an act being praised by groups of neo-Nazis. According to a Reuters report published last week, “The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter…
Four states are suing President Donald Trump over his executive order banning immigrants from seven of the world’s Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Massachusetts, New York and Virginia have all joined Washington state, which on Monday became the first state to announce a lawsuit of its own, in…