'Go home & take Obama': Rival crowds at anti-Islamophobia event in Texas:
Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Curtis Culwell Cente reports NBC DFW. The event was titled, "Stand With the Prophet Against Terror and Hate," And was aimed at disproving negative perceptions of Islam and Muslims in the United States, according to organizers. Ref. Source 2
We should not be paranoid but I think people do have a reason to be fearful of the religion and those that follow. The media has done a good job at showing us how many radical elements there are in Islam and have done little to show the peaceful Muslims so its obvious that those who are non-Muslim will only associate Islam with terrorists.
UK: Confronting Islamophobia - why everyone should demonstrate against racism on Saturday :
Islamophobia has become an institutional norm - we need to stand shoulder to shoulder with Muslim communites and oppose military interventions and wars argues Chris Nineham Ref. Source 4
U.S. Bars Disneyland-bound Muslim family
It was supposed to be a dream Disneyland vacation for a British Muslim family. Instead it was "The latest flash-point in a debate over Islam and security that inflamed passions on both sides of the Atlantic" after the family was barred from boarding a flight. Ref. Source 6s
Man removed from plane for speaking Arabic
A UC Berkeley student who came to the U.S. As an Iraqi refugee says he was removed from a Southwestern Airlines flight in Los Angeles earlier this month after a passenger was alarmed by a conversation he was having in Arabic. Ref. Source 3e.