How to stand up against hate
Source: CNN By Emily May and Kio Stark Emily May is the co-founder and executive director ofHollaback!, a nonprofit that works to fight harassment and offers bystander training webinars and […]
Japanese-Americans Imprisoned For Ethnicity Speak Out In Defense Of Muslims
Source: Huffington Post BY Jessica Prois Executive Editor at Huffington Post & Kimberly Yam Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Seventy-five years ago on Wednesday, the bombing of Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. […]
Muslim Celebs Explain Why A Religion Of 1.7 Billion Can’t Be Reduced To Stereotypes
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post What does it mean to be Muslim? There are more than a billion answers. Common media representations and political […]
Video interview of Islamic Scholar Lamya Kaddor – What can be done against hate?
Source: YouTube and DW News Germany needs a new identity—one that everyone can agree on, at least according to Islamic scholar Lamya Kaddor. She says it’s the only way to […]
Here’s what happened when a Muslim comedian sat next to Eric Trump on a plane
Source: Dawn As soon as he sat next to him, Amer introduced himself: “When I sat down I said, ‘How you doing?’ Trump says, ‘I’m doing good.’ And I said, […]
I’m Muslim. Here’s how I explain my faith to fearful Americans.
Source: The Washington Post By Ayan Omar Ayan Omar is a language arts teacher in St. Cloud, Minnesota. “Do you want to kill us?” It’s a question I get a […]
Photographer Combats Trump’s Islamophobia With Stunning Portrait Series
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post You could turn on the television and watch President-elect Donald Trump or one of his right-hand men tell you about […]
US Muslim forced off plane cites Islamophobia
Source: Aljazeera Being told to get off plane in front of passengers was “humiliating”, says Kameelah Rasheed, who alleges discrimination. BY Anealla SafdarKameelah Rasheed is one of several Muslims who has been forced to leave planes in America over the past two weeks [Rasheed] Correction Nov. 26, 2015: This article originally […]
Video and Book Review: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Source: Amazon The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed Trevor Noah’s unlikely […]
Interfaith Leaders Pledge To Stand By American Muslims, No Matter What
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Christian, Jewish and Buddhist leaders attended prayers at a Washington, D.C., mosque to emphasize solidarity. Christian, Jewish and Buddhist leaders joined their Muslim […]
The Headscarf, Fear, And Islamophobia
Source: Huffington Post By Zainab Salbi Founder of Women for Women International, Media Host of The Zainab Salbi Project and Nida’a Show If you want to understand the rise of Islamophobia […]
Amal Clooney: Trump’s ideas would break international human rights laws
By Daniella Diaz, CNN Washington (CNN)International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney warned that President-elect Donald Trump’s policies would harm Muslim Americans in the US and across the world. Speaking at […]
Islamophobia growing as anti-extremism policy fails, says MP
theguardian: by Alan Travis — Supremacists will thrive, says Liam Byrne, unless government sees that grievance rather than god inspires many to violence Labour MP Liam Byrne warns against rhetoric claiming there is a clash of civilisations and a conveyor belt linking faith to extremism. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty A vacuum […]
Islamophobia growing as anti-extremism policy fails, says MP
Source: The Guardian Labour MP Liam Byrne warns against rhetoric claiming there is a clash of civilisations and a conveyor belt linking faith to extremism. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty BY Alan Travis Home affairs editor A vacuum at the heart of the government’s counter-extremism policy is leading British Muslims to despair in […]
Allies Form A Circle Of Protection Around Muslim Students Praying In Michigan
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor This is what solidarity looks like. In outright defiance of the rising levels anti-Muslim hate in America, University of Michigan students joined […]
Jewish-Muslim alliance formed against anti-Semitism, Islamophobia
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) The day after President-elect Donald Trump appointed a man accused of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as his chief strategist, two of the nation’s largest Jewish and […]
Muslim College Chaplains Extend a Hand Across Religious Divides
Source: The New York Times By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN MINNEAPOLIS — Emma Blom grew up in the Scandinavian heartland of rural Minnesota, reliably attending her small town’s Lutheran church. She […]
We need to talk about American values in a changing America
Source: CNN By Farahnaz Ispahani is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of “Purifying The Land of the Pure: A history of […]
This Muslim Fourth-Grader Has Just One Wish For Donald Trump
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Sakeena Ahmed is a fourth grader who has plenty of wisdom to share. The 9-year-old from Oak Brook, Illinois, wrote a letter […]
Louisiana student ‘fabricated’ story of hijab attack, police say
Source: The Washington Post By Derek Hawkins and Fred Barbash A student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette fabricated a story that she was attacked and had her hijab rippped off, police said Thursday. The attack was one of several reported in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory. […]