by Ben Felder | NewsOK | Nov 17, 2016 | In The News
Leaders in Oklahoma’s Muslim community said Wednesday tensions have risen since last week’s election, but so have signs of support. Members of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the election of Donald Trump as...
by William W. Savage III | NonDoc | Oct 26, 2016 | In The News
When Rep. John Bennett (R-Sallisaw) makes radical, bigoted remarks in his official capacity at the Oklahoma State Capitol — as he did this week — many onlookers shake their heads and wonder how Oklahoma politics reached such a point. Fortunately, there are answers....
by Priscilla Galstaun-Khader | Muslims4Liberty | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
Oklahoma State lawmakers approved Rep. John “Islam-is-a-cancer-in-our-nation-that-needs-to-be-cut-out” Bennett’s proposal for an “Interim study on radical Islam” on July 8 2016, along with 71 other studies, for an estimated $50,000. That’s our tax dollars being used...
by Christopher Mathias | Huffington Post | Aug 24, 2016 | In The News
In a time of rising Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate, a beloved Oklahoma man is gunned down. The Jabara family left Lebanon in 1983, fleeing that country’s brutal civil war, and settled in a quiet neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Things were good. Mounha Jabara and his...
by Carla Hinton | News OK | Aug 15, 2016 | In The News
Vandals recently targeted a Muslim-owned grocery store with anti-Muslim sentiments and derogatory slurs aimed at a prominent metro Muslim leader and several Muslim organizations. Saad Mohammed, director of Islamic news and information for the Islamic Society of...