Source: CNN Blog. By Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster Editor’s note: Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster is director of North American Programs for Rabbis for Human Rights — North America, where she directs campaigns against torture, religious discrimination, slavery and human trafficking. (CNN) — My daily trek to work is the last place I […]
Hate Speech Against Muslims = Antisemitism. Why Not? “An idea is a feat of association.” Robert Lee Frost Hate speech against Muslims is no different from antisemitism, the horror of […]
By Muhammad Zafrullah, from 2012 Someone recently sent me an e-mail containing a German Muslim scholar’s response to a question about “Islamic Terrorism”. It is hearsay in that I do […]
Source: Press Release, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat says that anger of Muslims is fully justified, but violent reaction must be condemned The World Head of the Ahmadiyya […]
RT: A US Army colonel who was suspended from a top military college for teaching an anti-Islamic course is threatening to sue America’s top general for “violating academic freedom” and “caving in to Islam.” Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley’s attorneys have put Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin […]
Written by Ram Puniyani We are going through strange times. While the science, technology and rationalism has given us physical and intellectual tools to better the lot of humanity, we are witnessing the production of provocative material, literature and films in particular, which demonize the particular religion, Islam to be […]
RT: Anti-Islamic advertisements will go up across New York City’s subway system next week after a federal judge ruled that the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority could not legally refuse to host the signs on the basis of “demeaning” language. As early as next Monday, ten NYC subway stations will showcase […]
Source: NY Times By DOUG SAUNDERS Published: September 17, 2012 THE short, crude anti-Muslim video that sparked a wave of violent protests across the Middle East did not emerge from an obscure pocket of extremism; it is the latest in a string of anti-Muslim outbursts in the United States. In […]
Source: Muslim Sunrise Dear Critics, As-salamu alaikum. Peace be upon you. With this issue, we invite you to debate the criticisms you levy against the peaceful religion of Islam. We […]
Source: The Atlantic By ROBERT WRIGHT As the Muslim protests subside, more and more people have come to realize that what seems to have sparked them–one of the worst YouTube videos ever, which is saying something–isn’t what they were mainly about. But what were they about? Here theories differ, and some of the […]
By Brian McLaren, Special to CNN I was raised as an evangelical Christian in America, and any discussion of Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations around the world must include the phenomenon of American […]
Source: Spiegel International Angry protesters in the Sudanese capital Khartoum attacked the German Embassy on Friday, setting fire to parts of the building. They also tore down the German flag […]
Source: Loonwatch On this 9/11 let it be remembered that American Muslims do not bear collective guilt for the crime of 9/11, and let us remember those who died in the attacks. (h/t: Abdallah C.) List of Muslim Victims of 9/11 (via. Some Random Thoughts Blog) “American Muslims bear no collective […]
Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity have stoked Islamophobia — and encouraged right-wing ignorance By Nathan Lean Excerpted from “The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims” As is the case with any industry, advertising is paramount to the success of a product. One need not look […]
Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum, David Horowitz’s FrontPage Magazine helped fund Geert Wilders. Source: Reuters.com AMSTERDAM/NEW YORK – Anti-Islam groups in America have provided financial support to Dutch politician Geert Wilders, […]
At a time when U.S. Muslims and mosques are increasingly under attack, some Muslim Americans say Obama has not taken a strong enough stance against Islamophobia. The Democrats’ inclusion last week of support for marriage equality and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in their official party platform may have […]
Video of President Obama’s weekly address where he makes the statement in title of the article.
Source: Qantara.de Sometimes good intentions are just not enough: a new campaign by the German interior ministry, says Robert Misik, only contributes to the widespread paranoia about “the Muslims” – […]
Source : CNN Blog By Moni Basu, CNN (CNN) – When the nation pauses to remember 9/11 next week, a group of Tennesseans will gather at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Franklin for a commemoration. But it will be more than that. On the program, called “The Threat in Our […]
Source: Ummid.com There was no positive story in the recent past that was reported on the Assam imbroglio, except one. But before telling that lets count the negatives that has shaken us from within. First was the mass exodus of the Bengali speaking Muslims population from their shanty homes residing […]