by Austin Prickett | OKC Fox 25 | Jan 6, 2017 | In The News
DEWEY, Okla. (KOKH) — An Oklahoma teacher is accused of taking to social media and urging support for Donald Trump so that Muslims can be “butchered.” The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a release Friday urging...
by Adam Soltani | Jan 6, 2017 | Press Release
(OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, 1/6/2017) – The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-OK) today called on Dewey High School in Dewey, Okla., to take disciplinary action against a teacher who used social media to urge support for then...
by Stephen Piggott | Southern Poverty Law Center | Nov 4, 2016 | In The News
Oklahoma state representative John Bennett of Sallisaw received the so-called National Defender of Freedom award from the anti-Muslim think tank Center for Security Policy(CSP). The event took place at the Sequoyah County Fairgrounds in Sallisaw. It caps an...
by James Davenport | NonDoc | Oct 31, 2016 | In The News
State Rep. John Bennett (R-Sallisaw) held an interim study this past week on the impact of “radical Islam, Shariah Law, the Muslim Brotherhood and the radicalization process” on Oklahoma and the nation. During the course of this “study” — to use that word to describe...
by Editorial Board | OU Daily | Oct 31, 2016 | In The News
On Oct. 25, Muslim Oklahomans were reminded once again that our state remains a hotspot of defamatory and disparaging rhetoric. In an interim study presented to the House Judiciary and Civil Procedure Committee, State Rep. John Bennett asserted American leaders’...