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Hussein Abdullah gets a penalty for doing sajda in the endzone on Monday Night Football
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Aziz Poonawalla
What's the difference? pic.twitter.com/2Je8PSJ8GW — NFL Memes (@NFL_Memes) September 30, 2014 As a (very) recent convert to the joy of American Football, I am fascinated by the penalty issued to Kansas City Chiefs’ safety Hussein Abdullah for performing a sajda (prayer prostration) of thanks after an epic 39-yard pick-six on Patriots’ QB Tom Brady. Public…
NYPD’s illegal spying on Muslims was legal, says legal system
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Aziz Poonawalla
This is profoundly disappointing but not entirely unexpected: In a decision filed Thursday in federal court in Newark, U.S. District Judge William Martini dismissed a lawsuit brought in 2012 by eight Muslims who alleged that the NYPD’s surveillance programs were unconstitutional because they focused on religion, national origin and race. The suit accused the department…
Halal Turkeys for Thanksgiving
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Aziz Poonawalla
Thanksgiving is the singularly American tradition of family, friends, and food – and the mighty turkey reigns supreme. In fact, founding father Benjamin Franklin thought the turkey was a better candidate for our nation’s National Bird than the bald eagle: “For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative…
the silence libel: Muslims do not need to condemn
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Aziz Poonawalla
Patheos blogger Dan Peterson has a moving and well-intentioned post in which he exhorts the Muslim American community to speak more loudly and denounce terrorism: But you have to speak up more loudly. Others — I promise you this, from innumerable conversations and questions after lectures, over years — are not hearing your denunciations of…
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