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A massive chain email campaign is underway with the subject line “President Obama Honors Muslims with Eid Stamp” This campaign comes around during the holidays. A bunch of intolerant people want to get rid of the commemorative stamp honoring the Muslim holidays of Eid. I’m quoted in this story and will post the video shortly. [...]
When will US Marine face hate crime charges for beating Greek priest?
on November 13, 2009
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Ahmed Bedier and the Human Rights Council are pushing authorities to investigate and charge U.S. Marine Reservist Jasen Bruce with hate crime charges. Bruce attacked a Greek Orthodox Priest (Father Alexios Marakis) with a tire iron because he thought he was an “Arab terrorist.” For more background on this story, read this AP article On [...]
The recent sentencing of Egyptian University of South Florida student Ahmed Mohamed has sparked anti-Muslim hate speech across the Tampa Bay area and in particular on mainstream news sites. (On June 13, 2008, Ahmed Bedier reacted to Mohamed’s guilty plea deal, you can read it here) It didn’t take long for readers of Media General’s [...]
By Chandra Broadwater, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer In print: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 BROOKSVILLE — It was about to rain Monday afternoon, and Dr. Husam Zarad had an exam table to move. With some help from deliverer Don Lambert, the 45-year-old internist unloaded the table from the back of Lambert’s pickup as the clouds [...]
(MIAMI, FL 6/4/08) – On June 2, 2008, Florida Muslim leaders met with Doudou Diène, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, at a Miami hearing to discuss Islamophobia and anti-Muslim discrimination. For photos of the event click here: Special Rapporteur Diène is visiting several cities [...]
By Kevin Graham, St. Petersburg Times Staff TAMPA – Ahmed Bedier, founder of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has stepped down as executive director to establish a new peace-building initiative. Bedier, 34, has spent the last five years serving as the face of the local Muslim community. In his role as [...]
Today the St. Petersburg Police Department released the findings of their “investigation” into the allegations that a sixth grade Muslim students was threatened by her classmate. Two out of the four student witnesses interviewed said on 11/8/07 during second period, they heard some shooting threat by a classmate directed at Hannah. This is exactly when [...]
Last night I joined other folks from the Tampa Bay area at the Television Studios of WFLA NBC 8 to watch and react to the President’s State of the Union Speech. It was like dejavu since I spent the previous year doing the same thing at the same place. I remember saying last year that [...]
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