6 takeaways from the first presidential debate
Source: CNN Hempstead, New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton stepped onto the debate stage Monday night determined to show that only one candidate is ready to be president. Clinton poked, prodded and […]
Donald Trump’s rhetoric energizes Muslim voters
Source: Boston Globe By Lisa Wangsness In a different election year, Bilal Durrani, a busy electrical engineering student at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, might have ignored the background noise […]
Hate Crimes Against American Muslims Most Since Post-9/11 Era
Source: The New York Times By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — Hate crimes against American Muslims have soared to their highest levels since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, […]
Muslims Are More Unpopular Than Atheists In The U.S.
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — Islamophobia is real, and it likely won’t go away anytime soon. THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES In a recent study, 45.5 percent of respondents say Muslims don’t share their vision of American society. It’s all too common to turn on the news and hear […]
Pauline Hanson calls for immigration ban: ‘Go back to where you came from’
Source: The Guardian By Katharine Murphy Political editor In her first speech to the federal parliament in 1996, Pauline Hanson warned “we are in danger of being swamped by Asians” – a line that became her political signature. In her triumphant return to politics in 2016, the designated enemy has changed. […]
As Islamophobia Rises In Many Countries, Muslims Find Unlikely Sanctuary In Western Ukraine
Source: Huffington Post By Ian Bateson Freelance Journalist LVIV, Ukraine ― Ernes and Alime Mambetov have been living with their 2-year-old son in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for a […]
Muslim woman set on fire on New York’s Fifth Avenue in possible hate crime, police say
Source: The Washington Post By Derek Hawkins A Muslim woman wearing traditional garments had her clothes set on fire by a man with a lighter as she shopped on a crowded […]
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 […]
India Muslim women ‘raped’ in fatal attack ‘over beef’
Source: BBC An Indian woman has said that she and her 14-year-old cousin were gang raped and two relatives murdered, after being accused of being Muslims who ate beef. The […]
How Being Muslim In America Has Changed Since 9/11
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post The terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 reverberated around the world long after that fateful morning. Americans of all stripes grappled with the image of planes crashing into the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon, and unfurling a […]
How Being Muslim In America Has Changed Since 9/11
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post The terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 reverberated around the world long after that fateful morning. Americans of all […]
How Being Muslim In America Has Changed Since 9/11
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — For many Muslims, especially those born after Sept. 11, Islamophobia seems to be a fact of life. ANDREW BIRAJ VIA GETTY IMAGES A woman holds banners and a flag as she takes part in the Americans Against Terrorism, Hate and Violence rally on the […]
U.S. to track religious discrimination in schools as anti-Muslim sentiment grows
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Alison Chandler The U.S. Education Department announced it will begin collecting data this year about allegations of discrimination or bullying of students based on […]
I didn’t realize how often Muslims get kicked off planes, until it happened to me
theguardian: by Niala Mohammad — A humiliating experience opened my eyes to discrimination that has become common in post-9/11 America under the pretext of safety and security My friend and I were removed from an American Airlines flight for requesting water and asking why we were still aboard an idling […]
Barack Obama Just Nominated A Muslim To Be A Federal Judge. That’s A First.
Source: Huffington Post By Jennifer Bendery WASHINGTON ― President Barack Obama made history on Tuesday by nominating the first Muslim person to the federal judiciary, Abid Qureshi. “I am pleased to […]
Meet Generation M: the young, affluent Muslims changing the world
Source: The Guardian Book Reviewed by Harriet Sherwood The book written by Shelina Janmohamed Burkinis, misery memoirs and people on camels: the caricatures of Islam don’t leave much room for […]
‘The Way People Look at Us Has Changed’: Muslim Women on Life in Europe
Source: NY Times By LILLIE DREMEAUX The storm over bans on burkinis in more than 30 French beach towns has all but drowned out the voices of Muslim women, for […]
Does Europe have an inquisition problem?
Source: Aljazeera By Hatem Bazian Hatem Bazian is a lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Switzerland banned the construction of minarets, Spain and […]
As another 9/11 anniversary nears, New Jersey Muslims eye Trump warily
Source: Yahoo News By Caitlin Dickson The days following the terrible March terror attack in Brussels, when an ISIS cell planted bombs that killed at least 35 people injured more […]
America accepted me – an Algerian Muslim – in a way France never did
Source: The Guardian By Melyssa Haffaf, who is a PhD Candidate in Francophone Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Miami Though I mastered the French language and most […]