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September 30, 2014

NFL: Chiefs Husain Abdullah should not have been penalized

theGRIO REPORT - Kansas City safety and devote Muslim Husain Abdullah was penalized Monday night after he scored a touchdown…
April 16, 2014

End of NYPD Muslim surveillance program welcomed

NEW YORK (AP) — Muslim groups and civil liberties advocates applauded the decision by New York Police Department officials to…
October 14, 2013

Tea Partier Larry Klayman to Obama: ‘Put the Quran down’

theGRIO REPORT - The Tea Party and conservatives have been criticized for years for conflating President Obama and the Muslim…
October 7, 2013

Fox anchor apologizes after Obama gaffe

NEW YORK (AP) — A Fox News Channel anchor has apologized for falsely saying that President Barack Obama had offered…
August 22, 2013

Fewer parents circumcising boys

theGRIO REPORT - Parents have gone back on forth on whether to circumcise their baby boys over the last three…
July 26, 2013

Obama hosts Ramadan dinner at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama saluted Muslim Americans on Thursday for their contributions in helping build the United States…
May 3, 2013

Taxi driver claims he was attacked because he is Muslim

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for a taxi driver who says he was targeted for attack because he is Muslim want to…
April 24, 2013

Illinois police agency investigating Farrakhan son

CHICAGO (AP) - A state law enforcement agency is investigating the son of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan after…
April 23, 2013

Race of Boston bombing suspects plays a role in fallout from attack

OPINION - I can’t help but wonder, that if the Tsarnaev brothers were black, particularly the elder, Tamerlane, could he…
April 23, 2013

Boston bomb suspect charged; religious motive seen

BOSTON (AP) - The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by a radical…
April 17, 2013

'Please don't be Muslim': Fears of racial, ethnic profiling in the wake of Boston bombing

ESSAY - The overwhelming majority of Muslims in America is as law-abiding as any other religious group, and has repeatedly…
March 20, 2013

Does Obama's name alone hurt the Middle East Peace process?

OPINION - Unfortunately, the birther and Tea Party conspiracy theorists—which include members of the radical lunatic fringe and hate groups—have…
January 15, 2013

theGrio’s 100: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, merging Islam with environmentalism

theGRIO'S 100 - Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, 36, is the author of 'Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting The Planet'...
November 30, 2012

Muslim brothers put NFL on hold, travel to Mecca

ROCK CENTER - Put simply, this is just another striving, improbable, poetic American Dream story: How a family, venerating work…
October 22, 2012

Texas church sign: 'Vote for the Mormon not the Muslim!'

theGRIO REPORT - As the presidential election heats up, political opinions are turning up in odd places...
September 25, 2012

Madonna endorses 'black Muslim' in the White House

theGRIO REPORT - At a concert in Washington, D.C. last night Madonna went on rant where she called Obama 'a…
September 12, 2012

Obama condemns attack that killed US ambassador

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned attacks on a U.S. consulate in eastern Libya that killed the…
September 4, 2012

Alec Baldwin calls Hank Williams Jr. a 'racist coot' for Obama insults

Actor Alec Baldwin recently lashed out at former Monday Night Football performer Hank Williams Jr., after the conservative country singer…
August 19, 2012

Hank Williams Jr.: Obama a 'Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the US and we hate him!'

Even after his anti-Obama remarks cost him his longstanding 'Monday Night Football' job, Hank Williams Jr. isn't finished viciously attacking…
August 10, 2012

Obama: Attack at Sikh temple assails religion

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says an attack at a Sikh temple in the U.S. state of Wisconsin is…