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Man suspected of planning mosque shooting gets 5 years in prison

Man suspected of planning mosque shooting gets 5 years in prison Bolatete, Jacksonville man, sentenced for unlawful possession of gun silencer

Bolatete, Jacksonville man, sentenced for unlawful possession of gun silencer JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 70-year-old man suspected of planning to carry out a mass shooting at a Jacksonville mosque was sentenced Monday to prison for an unrelated charge. The defense asked for probation and a sentence of time served, saying Bernandino Bolatete’s health deteriorated significantly since his arrest […]

Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Wilders cancels Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest

Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Wilders cancels Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest

Far-right Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders on Thursday canceled a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that sparked protests in Pakistan. In a written statement Thursday night, Wilders, an outspoken anti-Islam party leader, said he decided to “let the contest go” following death threats and concerns other people could be put at risk. Wilders added that his fight […]

Online Propaganda Builds Islamic State Brand in the Face of Military Losses

Online Propaganda Builds Islamic State Brand in the Face of Military Losses

By  Sune Engel Rasmussen Aug. 26, 2018 7:00 a.m. ET   Islamic State has lost most of the territory it once held in Syria and Iraq. It is vying for survival with other, sometimes stronger, extremist groups. But one sphere where Islamic State still reigns supreme among terrorists is in cyberspace. The group’s vast online […]

Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg has a long history of bigoted social media posts

Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg has a long history of bigoted social media posts

Seminole County residents are calling for the resignation of tax collector Joel Greenberg after he posted an Islamophobic Facebook “question” and proceeded to wonder why people aren’t more tolerant of his bonehead, racially charged posts.  “Very simple question… Name just ONE society in the developed world that has benefited in ANY WAY from the introduction of more […]

Nazi fan wins Republican primary in Missouri

Nazi fan wins Republican primary in Missouri

Steve West, an anti-semitic conspiracy theorist who said Hitler did nothing wrong, defeated three other GOP candidates in the party’s primary election for Missouri’s 15th district. He now faces Democratic incumbent Jon Carpenter in November. He won with 49.5 percent of the vote; the second-place finisher had 24.4 percent. “Looking back in history, unfortunately, Hitler […]

Leon County judge candidate regrets posts that drew fire on Facebook

Social media posts by Leon Circuit judge candidate Christine Thurman are drawing fire from local attorney Mutaqee Akbar and others. (Photo: Screen capture from Christine Thurman's page)

Karl Etters, Tallahassee Democrat Published 11:59 a.m. ET June 21, 2018 | Updated 9:23 a.m. ET June 23, 2018 A candidate for Leon Circuit judge is drawing fire for a series of social media posts, some of which take aim at Muslims and minorities in derogatory ways. The 10 social media posts by Christine Thurman dating […]

Texan says U.S. Muslims lately subject to more attacks, hate crimes than ever

Texan says U.S. Muslims lately subject to more attacks, hate crimes than ever

A Texas member of a Muslim congregation said after a man was convicted of setting its mosque on fire that the United States isn’t what it used to be. “Muslims in America have been subjected to more insults, attacks and hate crimes in the last two or three years than ever before, specifically more than after […]

Man’s sentence reduced after judge is accused of anti-Islamic bias

An Iranian-American’s five-month jail sentence was reduced after he filed an appeal accusing a Sandy Springs judge who sentenced him of harboring anti-Islamic bias. Municipal Court Judge Sharon Dickson recently came under fire for remarks she made during Fazial Azizan’s sentencing last year. According to court transcripts, Dickson referenced the nursing student’s heritage multiple times, […]

The Real Founders of Fake News? American Islamophobes

Right-wing pundit Bill O'Reilly rails against “Islamic extremists” on his former news commentary show, The O'Reilly Factor. (Fox News)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. Anti-Muslim activists in the United States were operating in a “post-truth era” and putting out “alternative facts” long before those phrases entered the language. For the last decade they have been spreading provable […]