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Will Libya's Revolution Bring About Sharia Law?

Karlos Zurutuza, IPS News. November 16, 2011.

Women and secularists decry the coming introduction of Islamic law in post-Gaddafi Libya

"I Stayed to Fight" -- Being a Muslim Immigrant in Post 9/11 America

Mona Eltahawy, Comment Is Free. September 9, 2011.

Watching the twin towers crumble on live television was the start of my deep bond with America that will endure the hate.

Are the Anti-Jihadists More Dangerous than the Jihadists?

Gillian Brockell, Medill National Security Zone. August 18, 2011.

The number of right-wing extremist and hate groups in the United States passed 1,000 for the first time, while anti-government and militia groups have increased five-fold.

Ten Years After 9/11, a Much More Dangerous Anti-Muslim Current Is Sweeping Across America

Robert Steinback, SPLC Intelligence Report. July 8, 2011.

A cadre of activists and officials are largely responsible for an increasingly volatile way of talking about Islam and muslims in America.

Hedges: SAMs -- The Creepy, Inhumane Legal Weapon the State Uses to Break Prisoners

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 13, 2011.

The program, renewed by Barack Obama in October, severely isolates the prisoner, cutting them off from family, friends and the outside world.

Post-9/11 All Over Again: The Hate-Mongers Who Bombarded the Internet After Osama bin Laden's Death

Himanshu Suri, AlterNet. May 12, 2011.

On 9/11, I saw the Towers fall from my classroom window. On 5/2, I discovered that racism against Middle Eastern and South Asian people in America is as alive as ever.

The US Needs to Focus on Not Creating Any More bin Ladens

Rae Abileah, AlterNet. May 3, 2011.

American Muslim Voice founder Samina Sundas on her reactions to the killing of Osama bin Laden

Colonialism, Christians and Refugees: 'Incendies' Searches for a Past in a Country Wracked by Civil War

Jordan Elgrably, AlterNet. April 21, 2011.

Denis Villeneuve's latest west-meets-east film about war and identity bridges North Americans and the Arab world.

Tribal Plate Tectonics: The Supposed Christian-Muslim Vendetta in West Africa Is a Front for a Much Simpler Story

Gary Brecher, eXiled Online. April 18, 2011.

What the election riots in Northern Nigeria, a military mutiny in Burkina Faso, and massacres in Ivory Coast have in common.

Rep. Peter King's Anti-Muslim Hearings Revealed Just One Thing -- He's Bad at His Job

Joe Conason, AlterNet. March 11, 2011.

The hearings had been anything more than a gross waste of taxpayers' money and public attention, and a strategic blunder in the nation's counter-terrorist effort.

The Shocking Way US Cops Are Trained to Hate Muslims

Meg Stalcup, Joshua Craze, Washington Monthly. March 10, 2011.

Increasingly, American beat cops are exposed to virulently anti-Muslim teachings, by self-styled "terrorism experts" with no experience in national security.

Muslim Feminist Punk: Helping Destroy Stereotypes of Gender, Religion and Race

Sara Yasin, AlterNet. February 21, 2011.

Through the Muslim punk movement taqwacore, a self-described 'deaf punk playwright' found her voice.

Why the "War on Terror" Felt Like a War Against Me, an Ordinary Muslim

Shelina Janmohamed, Beacon Press. December 15, 2010.

After 9/11 it was easy for people to lash out in fear. Ordinary Muslims like me, despite sharing the same panic and dread as everyone else, became cast as murderous villains.