Showing posts with label Islam Bigotry Anti-Muslim Groups Lowe's First Amendment Freedom of Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Islam Bigotry Anti-Muslim Groups Lowe's First Amendment Freedom of Religion. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Charles C. Haynes: Religion story of the year: anti-Muslim bigotry in America

  The recent decision by Lowe’s Home Improvement to pull ads from the reality TV show “All-American Muslim” caps a very successful year for the growing anti-Muslim movement in the United States.

  So successful, in fact, that anti-mosque protests, anti-Shariah laws, and anti-Muslim hate crimes could easily fill any list of “top five” religion stories in 2011.

  Lowe’s withdrawal from sponsoring a show about the daily life of five American Muslim families was apparently in response to objections to the program from a conservative Christian group called the Florida Family Association.