• Anti-Islam Bills Active in GA, FL, MO; Dead in MS
  The latest efforts to ban state court use of international or foreign law, often cited in the context of banning the use of sharia law by state courts, appear to be failing.
  
• Fox & Friends Foments Fear of Islam with 'Security Expert' from Anti-Islam Group
  Fox News has been described, in the Center for American Progress' report "Fear Inc.," as an echo chamber for America's cottage industry of Islamophobia. But now that the so called "Ground Zero Mosque" is no longer an issue, the steady drumbeat of Fox Islamophobia has diminished. But it has not totally disappeared as shown by Fox & Friends' recent embrace of a "security expert" from a radical, fringe anti-Muslim group who used his Fox platform to spread more Fox fear and loathing of Islam. It's no surprise that Ryan Mauro, whose work appears on anti-Muslim sites such as Front Page Mag, would be playing the hate card. ...
  
  
  • The 'Grover Norquist is a Secret Muslim Brotherhood Agent' Conspiracy Returns Just in Time for CPAC
    
• Video: CAIR-FL Joins Embry-Riddle Students to Oppose Anti-Muslim Event
  
  
  • CAIR-FL Calls for Cancellation of Anti-Muslim Speaker at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (WMFE)
    Standing outside The Embry-Riddle Welcome Center, CAIR Florida Director Hassan Shibly says he has no problem with Matusitz, but doesn't think he should speak at a school where Muslim students may experience backlash. "He certainly has the freedom to promote fear and hatred, but we must recognize that his promotion against American Muslims is not cost free," Shibly says.
    
  • Background: CAIR-FL, Students to Urge Embry-Riddle Univ. to Drop Anti-Muslim Event
    
• Va. Muslim Leader Responds to Anti-Muslim Training (Daily Progress)
  The Islamic Center of Culpeper realizes that religious intolerance and bigotry result primarily from igno rance. That is why we have engaged the Culpeper Sheriff's department (CCSO) in a series of informal meetings to respond to the lies and misinformation of Mr. Guandolo while conveying the true message of Islam.
  
• CAIR: Minn. Bank Shuts Muslims' Accounts
  
• U.S. Government Sues Philadelphia Schools Over Beard Policy (Reuters)
  The U.S. government sued Philadelphia's school district for religious discrimination on Wednesday for demanding that a veteran Muslim police officer trim his beard.
  
• NJ: Muslim Women, Tradition and Change in the Arts to Be Topic Tonight
  
• Right-Wing Extremism: Germany's New Islamophobia Boom (Spiegel)
  Across Germany, right-wing organizations are using anti-Islam rhetoric to further their ideas -- and finding a receptive audience. Now legal experts are debating whether it's time for a new kind of hate-crime legislation.

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