Civil Rights Commission May Examine Anti-Muslim Discrimination
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 9th, 2011 5:43 am by HL
Civil Rights Commission May Examine Anti-Muslim Discrimination
Michael Yaki, a former member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights who is awaiting reappointment, tells TPM he’s planning to propose the federal body examine the rise of anti-Islam and anti-Arab discrimination in America once he rejoins the agency.
NPR ‘Appalled’ By Exec Ron Schiller’s Comments in James O’Keefe Video
NPR has its first response out to James O’Keefe’s latest stunt, a hidden video featuring a phony Muslim advocacy group discussing a possible donation, and they are not happy with how their executive handled himself in the film.
NPR Punked By James O’Keefe In Muslim Brotherhood Stunt
James O’Keefe’s organization has put up what they claim is hidden camera footage of NPR executives slamming the Tea Party over lunch at a Georgetown restaurant with O’Keefe’s pranksters, who were posing as a phony Muslim advocacy group interested in donating to NPR. In the video released by O’Keefe’s “Project Veritas,” Ron Schiller, president of the NPR foundation, delivers a laundry list of liberal complaints against the Tea Party and remains quiet as the fake donors complain about Jewish control of the media. A spokeswoman for NPR confirmed to TPM that Schiller is the person in the video but did not offer additional information at this time. “They’re seriously, seriously racist people,” Schiller says of the Tea Party at one point.
