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Kevin Gosztola: Deepa Kumar on Anti-Muslim Racism Behind NSA Surveillance, Media’s Coverage of Gaza

Over a week ago, The Intercept reported on five Muslim Americans who were targets of NSA and FBI surveillance. Why has this, in comparison to previous major stories on NSA surveillance, received so little mainstream coverage? By: Kevin Gosztola FireDogLake.com July 20, 2014 [partial transcript included below] Deepa Kumar Media coverage of Israel’s assault on Gaza has More

Polly Mann: Islam — Common Myths Deconstructed

By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter October 2013 The excellent 200-page book, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire by Deepa Kumar (Haymarket Books 2012) could be described as a succinct primer for those of us who have given little thought as to why there is such mistrust of Middle Easterners among Americans. This fear was exacerbated More