Normalizing hate and Islamophobia in Europe
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG January 25, 2023 On Saturday, far-right activist Rasmus Paludan set fire to a copy of the Holy Qur’an in front of the Turkish Embassy in the […]
International Day to Combat Islamophobia
International Day to Combat Islamophobia15 March A student clutches her textbook at the Community Girls School in Kotchandana refugee village, Pakistan. Muslim women and girls may face triple discrimination as […]
Nusrat Ghani: Muslimness a reason for my sacking, says ex-minister
Published 1 day ago bbc.com A Muslim MP says her faith was raised by a government whip as a reason why she was sacked as a minister in 2020. According […]
Islamomania and Islamophobia: Do these justify each other?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times On 3 December 2021: Priyantha Kumara a Sri Lankan manager of a sports equipment factory in Punjab, Sialkot was tortured […]
ONTARIO: How teachers and communities can recognize and challenge Islamaphobia in schools
Islamophobia shows itself not only in obvious hate acts, but in seemingly innocuous attitudes and assumptionsabout 3 hours ago By: The Conversation The Sault’s Islamic community celebrated Ramadan at Sault College, May […]
Islamophobia is a form of racism – like antisemitism it’s time it got its own definition
It has become so normalised in our society yet we struggle to define it. Our report will provide something we can all get behind By Anna Soubry and Wes Streeting […]
Islam’s New ‘Native Informants’
nybooks.com: Returning from Lebanon and Egypt in 2003, Edward Said wrote an angry dispatch in the London Review of Books on how the Iraq War as reported on Arabic TV channels portrayed a different conflict from the one reported by the American media, in which journalists were “as lost as the English-speaking soldiers they […]
Unveiling Judicial Neutrality: Do Headscarves belong in German Courtrooms?
ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk: In 2015, the FCC declared a general headscarf ban for teachers in public schools unconstitutional and held that the mere wearing of a headscarf on behalf of a State official (a teacher in that case) does not jeopardise the neutrality of the state. Yet, the FCC, justifying its recent rejection of […]
Anti-Islam Movement Has New Rallying Cry — Let’s Delete Verses of the Quran
Source: The Intercept By Mehdi Hasan, who is a Columnist, The Intercept. Contributing Editor, New Statesman. Host, Al Jazeera English. Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University. YOU THINK LIFE is bad for […]
Thanks, but a ‘Love a Muslim Day’ isn’t enough to counter Islamophobia
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 […]
Does terrorism cause Islamophobia?
onreligion.co.uk: The link between terrorism and hate crime is clear – apparently. An article in The Independent quoted Fiyaz Mughal of Faith Matters that “the biggest driver of anti-Muslim hate is terrorist attacks – the research is very clear here” (some more nuance to these views was given later through […]
What Trump missed in his address on tolerance — American Muslims
Salon: President Donald Trump, like his predecessors before him, has discovered the potent language of religious tolerance and interfaith unity when discussing Islam, as he demonstrated in his speech in Saudi Arabia to leaders of some 50 Muslim nations. But unlike previous presidents, he has not linked that rhetoric with […]
Austin’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community holds a “Coffee, Cake & True Islam” gathering at Caffe Medici
Source: http://kut.org/post/austin-muslims-invite-community-talk-islam-over-coffee By SYEDA HASAN Recent reports show hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S. have spiked to levels not seen since just after 9/11. This has led one Austin-area Muslim group to try and combat misconceptions about their religion. They’re holding a series of community conversations, inviting people to come and […]
New Zealand: Ahmadi Muslim Women suffer Islamophobia in Huntly
Source: http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/02/muslim-kiwis-attacked-in-huntly-get-out-of-my-patch.html?ref=RLrotator Muslim Kiwis attacked in Huntly – ‘Get out of my patch!’ 12/02/2017 | By Anna Bracewell-Worrall and Simon Wong A group of Muslim women subjected to a tirade of abuse from a stranger say they will not be made to feel scared and intimidated in their own country. The […]
US libraries report spike in Islamophobic hate speech since election
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 […]
Islamic world replete with conflicts over who is actually a Muslim
Source: Cleveland.com By Guest columnist Zohaib Zafar, a Brecksville resident, is a student at Davidson College in North Carolina, where he is a member of the Muslim Student Association. The […]
As Islamophobia Rises In Many Countries, Muslims Find Unlikely Sanctuary In Western Ukraine
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 […]
That Study About Extremist Mosques in Canada Is Mostly Bullshit
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 […]
Q&A with Khalifatul Maseeh | Truth about Apostasy in Islam
Source: http://www.youtube.com/TrueIslam Narrated by Kashif Chaudhry with references from Answers by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (ra) Khalifatul Masih 4th A video made by Abdul shafi Bharwana, Officially Incharge of Social Media Wing, Sierra Leone; Missionary in Sierra Leone; Lecturer in Jamia Ahmadiyya, Sierra Leone; Vice President, Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya, Sierra Leone; Editor […]