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  • Offended Muslims Say That Children's Easter Egg Hunt 'Violates the U.S. Constitution'

    03/29/2016 9:07:21 AM PDT · by kevcol · 64 replies
    patriotupdate.com ^ | March 26, 2016 | David Mcintosh
    The Muslims told the Detroit Free-Press that they were concerned about the religious implications of Cherry Hill Presbyterian Church's "Eggstravaganza!" They were also "troubled" by images of a bunny rabbit. "It really bothered my two kids," parent Majed Moughni, told the newspaper. "My son was like, 'Dad, I really don't feel comfortable getting these flyers, telling me to go to church. I thought churches are not supposed to mix with schools.' "
  • Lego to pull 'anti-Islamic' Star Wars toy set following Muslim furor

    04/02/2013 8:55:49 AM PDT · by BCW · 15 replies
    The Blaze ^ | 01 APR 2013 | Billy Hallowell
    As TheBlaze reported back in January, Austrian Muslims became outraged when they saw that Lego, a popular children’s toy company, created something they viewed as anti-Islamic in nature. Following months of intense angst and debate, Lego has reportedly agreed to stop making one of its Star Wars toy sets in an effort to temper the storm. ...He also smokes a water pipe and keeps Princess Leia in chains for use as his personal slave. Furious Muslim critics complained that the Lego set’s Asian and oriental figures were “deceitful and criminal” characters such as gun-runners, slave masters and terrorists.
  • (ReligionOfTolerance) Gunmen kill 26 students in attack at college in Nigeria

    10/02/2012 5:37:55 PM PDT · by Milagros · 5 replies
    TOi - PTI ^ | Oct 2, 2012
    OHIA ABUJA: At least 26 students were killed and several others injured when unidentified gunmen wearing military uniform attacked a hostel in northern Nigeria on Monday. Gunmen invaded the hostel of Mubi Polytechnic in northern state of Adamawa, killing 26 students, police sources said. A lecturer told reporters that the number of dead could be as much as 40. He said that the gunmen wore military attire and told the students to identify themselves by name. According to him, some of them were spared after mentioning their names but no reason was given by the assailants for the identification process....
  • Muslims draft complaint against Swift meatpacking plant

    07/23/2007 10:24:49 AM PDT · by Uncledave · 92 replies · 2,749+ views
    Published Monday | July 23, 2007 Muslims draft complaint against Swift meatpacking plant THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tension came to a head at a Grand Island meatpacking plant in June, when Jama Mohamed said his desire for 10 minutes to pray at sunset was met with shouting. After he left the production line and began praying, Mohamed said, supervisors took his prayer mat, pulled him up by his collar and sent him crying to a lead supervisor, who fired him. "I told him, 'Look, I know I am in America and I know in America there is a freedom of religion...
  • Radio host condemned for 'Islam is a cult' CAIR cites Neil Boortz for angry confrontation

    07/19/2007 4:26:07 PM PDT · by Bladerunnuh · 312 replies · 5,750+ views
    The caller began: "Sir, I'm calling because of some statements you've been making in the past week about the religion of Islam and … " Boortz interrupted: It's a cult, it's not even a religion. … " After a long list of crimes perpetrated all over the world in the name of Islam, the talk host told the caller, "You don't have a word of condemnation in you until the non-Islamic world rises up and starts to make it clear that we are fed up with your damned religion. We've had it up to here. "And somebody, like I said...
  • Passport photograph of [5 year-ol] girl's bare shoulders rejected 'as it may offend (Guess who)'

    08/13/2006 7:29:23 PM PDT · by aculeus · 94 replies · 3,475+ views
    The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | August 14, 2006 | By Paul Stokes
    (Filed: 14/08/2006) A five-year-old girl's passport application was rejected because her photograph showed her bare shoulders. Hannah Edwards's mother, Jane, was told that the exposed skin might be considered offensive in a Muslim country. The photograph was taken at a photo-booth at a local post office for a family trip to the south of France. Because of the way the camera was set up, the picture came out showing Hannah's shoulders. The family had it signed and presented it at a post office with the completed form but were told that it would not be accepted by the Passport Office....