HATE GRAFFITI AT MUSLIM CEMETERY IN EVERGREEN PARK, CHICAGO
On August 16, 2012, a Palestinian American man went to pay respects to his deceased father at Evergreen Cemetery and was horrified to see anti-Muslim hate graffiti on a number of Muslim graves. Evergreen Cemetery is home to at least 500 Muslim graves. Cemetery officials and the police have been notified. The cemetery is located at 3401 West 87th Street, Evergreen Park, IL 60805.
17th August 2012
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The Republican Party’s dogmatic Islamophobia is increasingly self-destructive. With the majority ofrank-and-file Republicans insisting that Muslims innately pose a threat to American society, Muslim Republicans are fleeing or being forced out of their own party. Florida Republican Nezar Hamzeendured the latter when Broward County’s Republican Party Executive Committee rejected his bid for committee membership by a 11-158 vote. The chief charge against him? “Terrorist.” The committee even changed the rules for applicants just so Hamze could be subjected to an interrogation for five minutes, a rule he jokingly called the “Hamze rule.”
Read More At Think Progress
“Jones later proved that both Kaufman and Hamze hold the same, practically identical positions on central issues to the GOP — be it cap and trade or abortion. The sole face that Hamze is Muslim is all that separated him from the embrace of his chosen political party. “After all this, you still want to be a Republican?” Jones asked. Hamze replied, “Yeah.” To which Jones said, “That is so nonsensical, it actually makes me think that you’re a Republican.””“
