Explainer: The Tariq Ramadan Affair
Homepage : In-depth : Explainer: The Tariq Ramadan affair Florence Dixon Explainer: The Tariq Ramadan affair Martyr or monster? Tariq Ramadan’s case has become the centre-point of debate [Getty] Date […]
How Muslims Became The Enemy
Source: Huffington Post By Juan Cole, who is collegiate professor of history at the University of Michigan. He runs a news and commentary webzine on U.S. foreign policy and progressive politics, […]
Why halal meat generates so much controversy in Europe
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley LES LILAS, France — There could scarcely be a spectacle more French than elderly matrons and young fathers vying for choice cuts of veal on […]
How silence in the face of Conor McGregor’s Islamophobia led to a disgraceful mass brawl after his defeat
Source: The Independent Earlier this year McGregor threw a metal dolly at a bus on which Khabib Nurmagomedov was travelling. Rather than chastise him, the UFC used it in a promotional […]
Parliament formally strips Aung San Suu Kyi of honorary Canadian citizenship
Source: The Star The upper house’s move follows a similar unanimous vote in the House of Commons last week. Since honorary citizenship was granted by a resolution passed by both […]
Muslims in Europe facing ‘hostility in everyday life’ – Study
Source: Middle East Eye By Chloé Benoist Islamophobia ‘poisoning EU societies’, warn members of European Parliament at launch of ‘toolkit’ to tackle anti-Muslim prejudice BRUSSELS – European academics and policy […]
The Latest Attack on Islam: It’s Not a Religion
Suggested Reading: The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles promoting secularism in every country of the world and refuting Islamophobia Source: New York Times By Asma T. Uddin, […]
75% in France, Spain and Netherlands Want to Honor the Refugees
About three-quarters or more of adults in Spain, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom support taking in refugees from countries where people are fleeing violence and war https://t.co/PhIteHGQob pic.twitter.com/37zgqALRMh […]
Merkel takes a gamble with her new immigration law
Source: Gulf Times By Michael Nienaber/ Reuters Berlin Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes a new immigration law will make it easier for foreign workers to find jobs in Germany, but her […]
$1.5M settlement for Muslim workers fired in prayer dispute
Source: Associated Press By JAMES ANDERSON DENVER (AP) — A big U.S. meatpacker has agreed to pay $1.5 million to 138 Somali-American Muslim workers who were fired from their jobs […]
Inside a Millennial Women’s Quran Study Group
Source: Time By Lucy Feldman | Photographs by Miranda Barnes for TIME A few minutes past 3 p.m., after Henna Qureshi and Adeela Khan take a moment to pray, they settle on a living room […]
I’m a Uyghur Muslim who fled China’s brutal crackdown – it’s time the world showed us some support
Source: Independent Chinese officials have been targeting the ethnic group for decades. As well as being imprisoned in internment camps, human rights violations like tracking Uyghurs with QR codes are […]
Myanmar: Reuters journalists investigating Rohingya killings sentenced to 7 years in prison
By Euan McKirdy and James Griffiths, CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN)A Myanmar court has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for breaking the Official Secrets Act while investigating […]
View From Abroad: Cartoon furore satiates Wilders hunger for publicity
Source: Dawn By Shada Islam, Dawn’s correspondent in Brussels GEERT Wilders, the fiercely anti-Islam Dutch politician, has got what he wanted: his decision to hold a controversial cartoon competition on his party’s […]
First Achievement of PM Imran Khan: Defusing the Prophet Cartoon Contest and Islamophobia in Netherlands
Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker cancels blasphemous caricatures contest Source: Dawn Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders says he has cancelled a planned blasphemous caricatures contest following “death threats and concerns other people […]
Myanmar’s military accused of genocide in damning UN report
Source: The Guardian BY Hannah Ellis-Petersen South-east Asia correspondent Myanmar’s military has been accused of genocide against the Rohingya in Rakhine state in a damning UN report that alleged the army was responsible […]
Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders to hold Prophet Muhammad cartoon competition
Source: Independent, from June 13, 2018 By Chris Baynes Counter-terrorism agency gives go-ahead to contest organised by party which wants to ban Islam Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is to […]
75% Reject Islamophobia in Australia
Multicultural Australia rejects “Muslim ban” Source: The Australian Muslim Times By Zia Ahmad, who is the Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Muslim Times AMUST and is based in Sydney. Senator Fraser […]
Australia senate appoints first Muslim woman amid race row
Source: BBC Mehreen Faruqi has joined Australia’s senate as its first female Muslim member, on a day the country is caught up in a bitter row over racism. Ms Faruqi, […]
Muslims in America: Separating fact from fiction
Source: The Daily Sabah By Craig Considine, Faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Rice University in Houston, Texas The words “I think Islam hates us,” “True hatred among […]