MEDIA & CULTURE What Is Islamophobia? The History And Definition Of Anti-Muslim Discrimination In The US BY ELIZABETH WHITMAN @ELIZABETHWHITTY ON 12/09/15 AT 3:20 PM Muslim students chant at a rally against Islamophobia at San Diego State University in California, Nov. 23, 2015. One consequence of Donald Trump’s fiery rhetoric […]
Source: Huffington Post By Akbar Ahmed The Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University and has just released the film “Journey into Europe” which accompanies the book of […]
Source: Politico A Muslim lawmaker is blaming the “toxic environment” created by Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Islam for a death threat he received Monday. Indiana Rep. André Carson said threats […]
Source: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States is shoving the Republican Party to the edge of chaos, abruptly pitting GOP […]
Source: The Guardian By Owen Jones The Republican presidential frontrunner’s call to stop Muslims from entering the US adds to mounting Islamophobia. He’s no longer a clown but a serious […]
Source: Religious News Service (Reuters) Muslim Americans fear their religion will be demonized and Islamophobia will spread after a young Muslim couple was accused of carrying out one of the […]
Source: The New York Times By Mehdi Hassan is the host of the Al Jazeera English show “UpFront.” WASHINGTON — AS a Briton who, like millions of my compatriots, opposed […]
independent.co.uk: Wearing a burka or niqab in public has been banned in the Swiss region of Ticino, with offenders facing a fine of up to £6,500. The region’s parliament approved the law on Monday, thereby banning full-face veils worn by women in many Muslim countries, in the wake of heightened terrorist alerts […]
Guardian: An anti-Islam group which staged an armed protest outside a Dallas Islamic centre has posted names and addresses of Muslims and “Muslim sympathisers” on its Facebook page, adding to growing tensions in north Texas following the Paris terror attacks. The group, which calls itself the Bureau of American Islamic […]
catchnews.com: Yesterday wasn’t a good day to be Aamir Khan – and that in itself is odd. It’s been pretty good to be Aamir Khan, one imagines, for the past 15 years. Blockbuster movies. Serious respect in the industry. A few hundred crores at the box office. Awards. A hyper-influential […]
Source: Think Progress BY JACK JENKINS NOV 23, 2015 2:04PM The mayor of Dallas is pushing back against politicians who say Americans should be skeptical of Syrian refugees, saying he is […]
Tribune: There seems to be no bottom to the cesspool of Islamophobic rhetoric coming from Republican candidates. The tone of anti-Muslim musings post-Paris attack has become so poisonous that it cannot portend anything positive. In the latest, the Republican front-runner said the United States would have “absolutely no choice” but […]
Salon: Know what it says on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty? Along with hundreds of thousands of other New Yorkers, I see her almost every day during my daily commute, while the Q train crosses the Manhattan Bridge. If I remember to look up from my phone, that […]
By Lucy Sherriff, who is editor of HuffPost UK Young Voices; she also reports on environment Huff Post: A young Muslim man has given a masterclass in how to shut […]
Source: Breitbart London The Roman Catholic Church is drawing criticism for ordering its schools to teach Judaism alongside Christianity in GCSE religious studies at the exclusion of Islam or other faiths. Senior […]
Source: Huffingtons Post DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) – The German anti-Islam movement PEGIDA staged its biggest rally in months on Monday, sparked into fresh life on its first anniversary by anger […]
Source: The Guardian The upcoming poll on 8 November has been been touted as the freest and fairest in decades but, with religion an increasingly sensitive issue in Myanmar, many […]
Source: The New York Times The F.B.I. is about to introduce an interactive program it developed for teachers and students, aimed at training them to prevent young people from being drawn into violent extremism. But Muslim, Arab and other religious and civil rights leaders who were invited to preview the […]
The Express: The British scientist was appearing on a live TV chat show in the United States when he blasted “to hell with their culture” when referring to some practices in Islam, such as women being made to wear burkhas. Dawkins was appearing on the Bill Maher’s HBO show and […]
The Huffington Post: We are at war with Islam. Or so many people would like the world to believe. Whether it’s the Islamic State or anti-Islam protestors across the U.S, […]