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...
by Mike Jones | Tulsa World | Jun 19, 2016 | In The News
It’s hot outside. That, however, can’t stop Rep. John Bennett, R-Sallisaw, from building a snowman based on fabrication and fear and then beating it up. Beating up a snowman. Not such a tough assignment. Bennett, you might remember — unless like most rational people,...
by Carla Hinton | News OK | Jun 17, 2016 | In The News
Several organizations have voiced their objections to an Oklahoma legislator’s proposal for an interim study on “Radical Islam, Shariah Law, the Muslim Brotherhood and the radicalization process.” An open letter from various groups was recently sent...
by Tim Farley | Red Dirt Report | Dec 19, 2015 | In The News
Civil rights report documents anti-Muslim discrimination, harassment in Oklahoma Increased presidential campaign rhetoric about terrorism is fueling anti-Muslim discrimination and harassment, according to a lawyer with the Council on American Islamic Relations of...
by Bill Sherman | Tulsa World | Dec 10, 2015 | In The News
Islamic State-inspired terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernadino, California, and a proposal by presidential hopeful Donald Trump to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, have Oklahoma Muslims on edge. Trump’s proposal Monday to halt Muslim travel to the...