Stop anti-Muslim repression!

In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden and the Arab revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa, a conscious climate of anti-Muslim hate is being promoted across the U.S.

Three imams, including a U.S.-born Muslim bound for a conference on Islamophobia, were kicked off U.S. domestic flights.

Two of the imams boarded a flight from Memphis, Tenn., to Charlotte, N.C., on May 6 only to have it return to the terminal so they could be put through “additional screening.”

U.S.-born imam Al-Amin Abdul-Latif of Long Island was barred from boarding an American Airlines flight from New York to Charlotte May 6 and told to return to LaGuardia airport for a morning flight May 7, only to be refused boarding again, without explanation.

Racists have been mobilizing against the building of a masjid in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, N.Y. An injunction against building and opposition to the building of the Islamic Center is from the same racist forces that mobilized against building an Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan several blocks from the World Trade Center site.

The FBI is continuing its attack on Hatem Abudayyeh, executive director of the Arab American Action Network. Following a Gestapo-type raid on the Abudayyeh home, the family’s bank accounts were briefly frozen as the U.S. steps up its anti-Muslim campaign as part of the so-called “War on Terror.”