Source: The Guardian By Richard Adams Efforts to bar girls from wearing the hijab at primary schools were “naked racism dressed up as liberalism”, a teachers’ union conference heard as […]
India Today: A journalist on Monday tweeted, without naming them directly, that “they” need to be “killed” before “they kill us”. Although interpretations of the tweet may differ from person to person, many saw it as a tweet advocating violence against members of a particular community — Muslims — and […]
Editor’s Note: This is from a known Islamophobic blog site Taqiyya, Ahmadi style Even Islam’s “good guys” lie about Islam. November 27, 2017 Bruce Bawer Founded in 1889 in British India, Ahmadiyya is an Islamic sect that actually preaches everything that Islam as a whole pretends to stand for: love, […]
There are no violent, extremist or provocative verses in the Quran, only distorted, misquoted and purposefully misinterpreted ones Atif Rashid @tif_49 85 comments The anti-Islam bandwagon has resurfaced in the wake of theManchester attack, led by extremist commentators and a whole host of Islamophobes on social media. They reaffirm false […]
Source: Guardian By Susan Carland, who is a lecturer in Monash University’s National Centre for Australian Studies Islam’s patriarchy and western feminism have said a lot. Now Muslim women who fight […]
Source: Dawn How did so many Pakistanis become bloodthirsty vigilantes? Evening TV talk shows — at least those I have either seen or participated in — circle around two basic explanations. One, favoured by the liberal-minded, blames the blasphemy law and implicitly demands its repeal (an explicit call would endanger […]
Source: The Guardian By Kristina Keneally Every Muslim who speaks out is expected to own, explain and condemn any act carried out by Muslims worldwide. The same doesn’t apply to […]
Source: The Guardian By Andrew Pulver Oscar-nominated Muslim actor reveals additional discrimination he has faced since converting to Islam in 1999 The actor Mahershala Ali, whose performance in the widely acclaimed […]
Source:Quora They are extremists having wrong interpretation of religion, misguided, ignorant,and misguiding others to act like them doing it for political and personal benefits. We condemn such acts. Some groups of Muslims use unlawful means and suicide bombers, bombing in the name of religion to kill and harm non-Muslims including […]
Guardian: In the aftermath of the attacks of 11 September 2001, amid the grief and rage that followed the toppling of the World Trade Center, President George W Bush did not declare war on Islam. “These acts of violence against innocents,” he told Americans in the week after 3,000 people […]
theguardian: by Julia Ebner — In the hope of preserving the status quo the government is enacting a symbolic policy that feeds into identity wars between Muslim and non-Muslim ‘The policy ultimately risks normalising far-right rhetoric, validating populist party programmes and empowering Austrian identity movements by demonising Muslim communities.’ […]
Source: The Guardian As well as an attempt to remove a student’s hijab at the University of New Mexico, books across the country have been defaced A spate of racist incidents has been reported by US librarians in the aftermath of the presidential election. According to data gathered by the […]
Source: The Local “We do not employ women who wear headscarves and do not understand why applicants would expect us to,” the rejection letter said, according to the woman’s lawyer.The woman, who is an experienced dental nurse, now intends to seek damages from the dentist in a labour court, Spiegel […]
Huff Post: by Christopher Mathias — Oh and by the way, his dad fights terrorism for a living. “I’m done with the U.S.,” Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani’s wife told him on Friday. Seeing her youngest son, just 7 years old, walk off the school bus bruised and battered that afternoon outside their […]
Russia Today: Switzerland’s parliament has approved a draft bill aiming for a nationwide burqa ban, initiated by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP). Its backers also launched a public petition with the same goal. The draft bill was approved on Tuesday, with 88 MPs of the lower house voting in […]
Source: Asia Times. A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature seen as insulting Islam, state news agency Petra said. Hattar, a Christian and an anti-Islamist activist […]
Huff post: LVIV, Ukraine ― Ernes and Alime Mambetov have been living with their 2-year-old son in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for a little over a year. Both are practicing Muslims and Crimean Tatars that fled Crimea for mainland Ukraine after Russia’s military seized control of the peninsula […]
Source: Vice.com By Davide Mastracci Another day, another sketchy report alleging Canada’s mosques are a hotbed for extremism. On Tuesday, the Canadian Press published a story reporting that “many mosques […]
Source: The Guardian By William Hutton, who has written a weekly column for more than 15 years: six years at the Guardian and nine years at the Observer. He is principal […]
Source. Dawn ANYONE who can see beyond the obvious would be able to scan the invisible manufacturer’s seal embossed on the chassis of the lorry that killed too many in Nice on a day they were celebrating a great milestone in the history of human freedom. Looking closely, one could […]