Petition effort in support of Rasmea Odeh under way

By staff |November 2, 2013 | Fight Back! News Read more articles in FBI Repression Petition effort in support of Rasmea Odeh under way Chicago, IL – A massive online petition effort demanding that the government drop the charges against Rasmea Odeh was launched Nov. 2. Odeh, a longtime Palestinian community leader war arrested by […]

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Samer Barq interrogated by U.S. officers from FBI in Israeli jails

Al Qassam Website | 15-04-2013,08:10 Palestinian human rights sources said that the hunger striking prisoner Samer Barq, from Jayous village near the city of Qalqilya northern West Bank, is being interrogated by U.S. officers from the FBI. Helmi Barq, the captive’s father, reported that his son, who has been on hunger strike for 50 days, […]

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Congress Grills FBI Chief About Anti-Islam Training – video

 By Spencer Ackerman | October 6, 2011  |5:04 pm  | Danger Room At a congressional hearing on Thursday, FBI Director Robert Mueller said the Bureau was through with training sessions that equated “mainstream” Muslims with terrorists — and besides, briefings like those were mere “isolated incidents.” But Mueller’s description of the extent of the training doesn’t […]

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Funding settlements, funding Islamophobia — all in a day’s work

by Philip Weiss on September 5, 2011 | Mondoweiss Here is a nice example of a writer connecting the dots. Farah Khaled in Arab News picks up where the recent report on murderous Islamophobia by the Center for American Progress leaves off, and says that the exponents of Islamophobia in the U.S., and its funders […]

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FBI ‘Islam 101′ Guide Depicted Muslims as 7th-Century Simpletons

Spencer Ackerman | July 27, 2011  |  | Danger Room | Wired.com As recently as January 2009, the FBI thought its agents ought to know the following crucial information about Muslims: They engage in a “circumcision ritual” More than 9,000 of them are in the U.S. military Their religion “transforms [a] country’s culture into 7th-century […]

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Solidarity is not a crime! – Minneapolis Anti-War Committee Chalks Up FBI – video

UpTakeVideo on Apr 20, 2011 The Anti-War Committee and a number of their allies staged a protest rally on chalked sidewalks in front of the Minneapolis FBI office yesterday. The FBI has issued 23 subpoenas for the Chicago Grand Jury including nine from Minnesota. The Minnesotans’ homes were raided last September 24. Repeat subpoenas were […]

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