Source: Associated Press By AYA BATRAWY Yesterday DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Saudi government continues to tolerate hate speech by some clerics against minority groups while public school […]
Source: Time BY Alana Abramson Sep 17, 2017 President Donald Trump retweeted posts from two Twitter accounts Sunday — both of which have histories of hate-filled posts including anti-Muslim sentiments. […]
FORT SMITH, Ark. — Abraham Davis was sitting on a thin blue pad on the concrete floor of Cell 3 in a jail in western Arkansas when a guard came around with stamped envelopes and writing paper. The Two Americans Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their […]
Source: The Guardian BY Christopher Knaus Media group consents to judgment as part of settlement with Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, after paper said he had not condemned Paris attacks Australia grand […]
Source: Associated Press By GERRY SHIH HEFEI, China (AP) — The flood of angry anti-Muslim rhetoric on social media was the first sign of how fiercely the suburban middle-class homeowners […]
Source: BBC Pakistan’s media regulator has ordered a controversial televangelist to apologise on air for hate speech. Aamir Liaquat Hussain had accused liberal activists, bloggers and journalists of blasphemy and […]
Source: BBC The government has removed its adverts from YouTube amid concerns they are appearing next to “inappropriate” material on the video-sharing site. The Cabinet Office said it was seeking […]
Source: BBC Social media firms in Germany could face fines of up to 50 million euros if they take too long to remove illegal content including fake news. Germany’s justice […]
Source: USA Today By Jon Swartz , USA TODAYPublished 5:59 p.m. ET March 12, 2017 | Updated 24 hours ago Thousands have flooded into Austin, Texas to experience the 31st Annual […]
Source: The New York Times By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA A 42-year-old man who burned a Quran and posted a video of it on Facebook has been charged with blasphemy in […]
By Dawood Rehman | Published on January 26, 2017 ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has banned TV anchor Amir Liaquat and his programme over hate speech, according to […]
Huff Post: by Karol Kuruwala — The video has a surprising (and haunting) twist. DONT NORMALIZE HATE / YOUTUBE Katy Perry executive produced a video telling the story of Haru Kuromiya, who was incarcerated by the American government during World War I Confronted with an increase in hate crimes and Islamophobic rhetoric, […]
Source: The Guardian Almost a year after her father was killed in the San Bernardino terror attack last December, Kate Bowman etched the word “love” in yellow chalk on the […]
Source: Reuters By Ian Simpson | WASHINGTON The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum expressed alarm on Monday over “hateful speech” at a white nationalist meeting over the weekend, and a restaurant apologized for hosting the group after a woman tweeted a picture of herself making a Nazi salute. The National Policy […]
Source: Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Firebrand Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders says he will not attend court next week to face hate speech charges, calling the case against him “a political trial.” Prosecutors have charged Wilders, leader of the populist Dutch Freedom Party, with insulting a group […]
Source: The Local The threat from Volker Kauder, a key member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, follows a similar warning by Justice Minister Heiko Maas, in a growing sign of German politicians’ frustration with such websites.”The time for round-tables is over. I’ve run out of patience,” said Volker Kauder, chairman […]
Source: Dawn By ZULQERNAIN TAHIR LAHORE: The Council of Complaints of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra) dismissed on Thursday the complaints of the minority Ahmadi community against two private TV channels as ‘non-maintainable’. The decision was made after a mob entered the Pemra office in the Cantonment area, asking […]
By Michael Schulson Salon.com: Karen Armstrong has written histories of Buddhism and Islam. She has written a history of myth. She has written a history of God. Born in Britain, Armstrong […]