New Jersey school board member quits over anti-Muslim comments

April 23, 2016 Article

A New Jersey school board member resigned on Friday after drawing fire for anti-Muslim Facebook posts, including one saying, “America needs to get rid of people like you,” the school district said. Elmwood Park Board of Education member Gladys Gryskiewicz had come under pressure to resign after attention was drawn to the posts on her

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Arabic-speaker removed from California flight seeks apology

April 19, 2016 Article

A California university student who was taken off a Southwest Airlines flight after another passenger heard him speaking Arabic was traumatized and he wants an apology, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said on Monday. The incident unfolded as Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a 26-year-old University of California Berkeley student, was waiting for his April 6 flight from

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