our democracy cant function properly if corporations may spy and snoop on nonprofits with impunity this espionage is a despicable means of degrading the effectiveness of nonprofit watchdogs and activists corporations spy on nonprofits with impunity in facing the dangerous situation today presented by the islamic state and its ideological peers we should be clear there is no crisis in islam but there is conversely and unmistakably an existential crisis or crises in the muslim world it is time to speak and act accordingly is it time to separate islam from the muslim world the 1960s demand for first class citizenship echoes through the years as our call to justice today unfortunately the bull connor images of peaceful protesters were not historic remnants but eerily prescient of tanks and tear gas last week in ferguson mo democrats renew the call for first class citizenship and justice for all