Sean Gallup/Getty Images A German politician from the far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) resigned and converted to Islam. Arthur Wagner stepped down on January 11, the group wrote in a Facebook post, and said the decision came as a surprise. The party touts an anti-immigration, anti-Islam platform. Arthur Wagner, a German politician from […]
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Facebook’s secret rules mean that it’s ok to be anti-Islam, but not anti-gay
Enlarge / CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook’s 2016 “F8” conference. (credit: Facebook) This article originally appeared on ProPublica on June 28, 2017. In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a US congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims. “Hunt them, identify […]
Denmark’s Outspoken Anti-Islam Politician … Who’s Muslim
Naser Khader, Syrian immigrant and Denmark’s most outspoken Muslim, has a number of tattoos in Arabic that proclaim values that “I am willing to die for,” he says. But it’s not verses from the Quran that are indelibly inked into his skin. They are the words for the liberal values of “freedom”, “democracy” and “freedom […]
