Islamophobia

America's long festering animus toward Arabs and Islam has finally arrived. From black tie affairs to your local barbecue, you can see it in the U..S.A. You can hear it, too, whispering in the White House and booming from Capitol Hill.

Quran asks believers to "repel evil with something better." That is what Muhammad Ali did, the heavyweight boxing champion, also an African-American Muslim. He refused to serve in Vietnam, becoming a conscientious objector. 

We can all share horror stories of harassment and abuse as a community. While reporting is important, it can't be done in a haphazard fashion. It has to be done carefully. Here are some tips that can help.

Have you noticed your boss, supervisor or co-workers have been having a hard time looking at you straight in the eye in the last few days? Has the war on Iraq, which has just begun, been causing problems for you as a Muslim in your workplace?

A phone tree is a group of people who contact each other to convey a message in an organized way. Instead of 1 person contacting 50 people, one person contacts two other people, who then each contact two other people, and so on. 

To understand the contemporary world, we all need to know something about Islam-beyond the inane contribution of the Attorney General cited above. So I have prepared this little primer on Islam for Americans.

An account of a disabled muslim man who was a victim of discrimination in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US.