Armed Anti-Islam Group Publishes Home Addresses of Texas Muslims, 'Muslim Sympathizers'

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Hadith of the Day: He Does Not Believe

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "By God, he does not believe! By God, he does not believe! By God, he does not believe!" When asked who he was referring to, the Prophet replied: "That person whose neighbor does not feel safe from his evil." Sahih Al-Bukhari
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CAIR: Armed Mosque Protesters Publish Irving Muslims' Home Addresses (Dallas Morning News)

Alia Salem, executive director of the Dallas/Fort Worth branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said she was "absolutely concerned" after finding her name on the list.

"This is the first time I've been slightly alarmed," she said. "As bad as things have gotten in the past, and especially recently, this is the first time where I see people taking this public."
- CAIR: Armed Protest Group Publishes Personal Details of Muslims, 'Muslim Sympathizers'
  
  CAIR's national headquarters in Washington issued a statement Tuesday saying it "has received more reports about acts of Islamophobic discrimination, intimidation, threats, and violence targeting American Muslims (or those perceived to be Muslim) and Islamic institutions in the past week and a half than during any other limited period of time since the 9/11 terror attacks."
  
  It attributed the increase to "the Paris attacks and to the mainstreaming of Islamophobia by political candidates and lawmakers in the run-up to the 2016 general election" as well as several politicians calling for the U.S. to stop accepting Syrian refugees, who are fleeing ISIS violence in the Middle East.
- Video: Anti-Islam Group Posts Home Addresses of Texas Muslims and 'Sympathizers'
CAIR: 'I'm Frightened': After Terrorist Attacks, New York City Muslims Cope with Backlash (NY Times)

In the past week and a half, several Muslims in New York, mostly women wearing head scarves, have reported being victims of verbal abuse and physical assault. Even some non-Muslims including at least one Latino mistaken for a Muslim have been subjected to Islamophobic taunts or worse, community leaders said.

In an episode reported this week by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, two Muslim women in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn said that a man claiming to be a postal worker assaulted them, elbowing one and spitting in her face, and telling them he was going to burn down their "temple." The police arrested a man on Tuesday in connection with the incident and charged him with aggravated harassment and menacing as a hate crime.

"We've never seen so much backlash against the Muslim community" since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, said Sadyia Khalique, director of operations for the New York office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "I'm frightened."
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CAIR: Donald Trump Often Says Things that are Untrue (Los Angeles Times)

Trump's rhetoric is essentially fear-mongering and harmful to the country as a whole, said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington.
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CAIR-Houston: In the Aftermath of Fire, Young Muslim Finds New Path in Life (Houston Chronicle)

"We want more youth to take the bull by the horns," said Mustafa Carroll, executive director of the Houston branch of Council on American Islamic Relations. "To show the best that our faith has to offer, what it really means to be a Muslim."