Source: Associated Press By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister said his Liberal Party rejected the anti-Muslim views of an election candidate who on Friday became the […]
Suggested reading by the Muslim Times: Europeans’ Attitude Towards the Muslims: The Glass is More than Half Full Source: Daily Sabah By Yahya Bostan The mosque scandal in Rotterdam is a […]
Guardian: Twenty-four hours on from the “Punish a Muslim Day” and the well-meaning but deeply reductive framing of “Love a Muslim Day”, the UK’s Muslim communities and no doubt the police and authorities are breathing a huge sigh of relief that this designated day of hate passed off without major incident. “Punish […]
Far-right extremists are preparing for what they believe is a “war against Islam”, a report has warned in the wake of police alerts over attempted attacks. Hope Not Hate’s annual report forecast further violence emanating from various factions following the Finsbury Park terror attack on Muslims and neo-Nazi murder of […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
Source: International Business Times By Christina Silva Arabs have “wronged Islam and distorted the image of Muslims,” Saudi Prince Khaled Al-Faisal warned in a speech this week. The prince said Muslims should “not […]
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 […]
Huff Post: by Elyse Wanshel — “We are with you!” TARIQ AMJED Chalk it up to spreading hope. Messages of love, compassion and support scrawled on the sidewalk of a mosque in Virginia is making folks on Twitter cry happy tears. On Sunday, members of the Mubarak Mosque in Chantilly, […]
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 […]
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. 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 […]
The highest-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence officer ever to defect to the West claims in a new book that anti-American Islamic terrorism had its roots in a secret 1970s-era KGB plot to harm but the United States and Israel by seeding Muslim countries with carefully targeted propaganda. Yuri Andropov, the KGB chief […]
