Trusted tweet? Fact checking the rumours spread on social media By swissinfo.ch Jun 8, 2016 – 11:00 Have your heard the news? Digital media make it easier to spread rumours fast. (Keystone) For the last two years, swissinfo.ch has been involved in a collaborative project to help journalists tackle one […]
Source: RNS By Julie Poucher Harbin Julie Poucher Harbin is a correspondent based in Cary, N.C. (RNS) As part of his “Islam in Film” class at the University of Nebraska, religious studies […]
May 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB For most journalists, the challenge of doing their job usually comes from one source. However, restrictions and challenges facing Palestinian journalists are multi-levelled and much more complicated. While most human and media rights organisations usually list governments as restricting journalists, Palestinians living […]
Omar Sy, the star of “Chocolat.” Photo: AFP Published: 18 Apr 2016 A new movie about the life of France’s first black celebrity is challenging audiences to consider whether Hollywood’s notorious diversity problem is also an issue in France. Born in Cuba to African slaves, Rafael Padilla battled racism to […]
Could not one of those dead children among the five hundred souls on the sinking Mediterranean boat become a ‘superstar’? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Has something gone adrift within the moral […]
Researchers say there were shocked to learn that Islam receives more negative coverage than cancer. The New York Times portrays Islam and Muslims more negatively than cancer, cocaine and alcohol, according to a report that studied the newspaper’s headlines. “Since 9/11, many media outlets began profiteering from the anti-Muslim climate. Though you […]
Auto-incorrect: Google changes ‘Muslims report terrorism’ to ‘Muslims support terrorism’ US search giant Google has been forced to apologize and alter its search algorithm, after it kept suggesting that those […]
Source: Al jazeera Less than 2 percent of all politically motivated acts of violence committed in Europe are carried out by Muslims. Yet, the media narrative of a crisis with “radical […]
Source: Huffington Post By John Tirman Executive Director, MIT Center for International Studies In the last few weeks, the alarming rise of vitriolic anti-immigrant, xenophobic rhetoric from the right wing […]
Source: The Guardian By Miqdaad Versi — When a study finds that nearly all stories about Muslims are negative it’s clear this is the last acceptable form of bigotry – […]
theguardian: by Siema Iqbal — For the first time in my life I feel like I don’t belong. British Muslim communities have so many worries about your plans to tackle extremism, so why don’t you Dear Mr Cameron, What did your speech on radicalisation this week actually mean to someone like me? […]
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — In his July 17 Facebook post, Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, spewed unhinged hatred and bigotry against American Muslims. Writing his response to the Chattanooga shooting, Graham used language that can only succeed in radicalizing Americans: We are under […]
Six months after an attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, editor of the French satirical magazine has said he will no longer draw comics of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). “We have drawn […]
Jibran Nasir on Reclaiming Pakistan references killing of Ahmadis A TALK4PAK EVENT at Fremont Mehran Restaurant By Dr. H. Koya, San Francisco Bay Area. https://fbcdn-vthumb-a.akamaihd.net/hvthumb-ak-xaf1/v/t15.0-10/s480x480/11095245_10207029298151275_706616605_n.jpg?oh=ab4755689b33b51d2ddf83803b542411&oe=55C2B9CC&__gda__=1439360669_b6d55f40a9f3b584bfb3b0f9526f7c70 (Also see attached word doc) FREMONT (Mehran Restaurant) More 200 people attended a hurriedly organized lunch by TALK4PAK group here today featuring visiting public speaker […]
Huff Post: by Todd Green, Ph,D. — Is American Sniper a brilliant, subtle study of the trauma of war and the toll that incessant violence takes on those who participate in it? Or is American Sniper a shallow, flag-waving, war propaganda movie? These questions frame much of the debate over Clint Eastwood’s recent film. […]
Middle East Eye: by Cj Werleman — War, occupation and Western atrocities are the breeding ground for terrorist attacks, not Islamic scripture Why is it standard procedure for the media to focus on the religiosity of the terrorist, rather than his political grievances, in any analysis of a terrorist attack? […]
Daily Times: by Kashif N. Chaudhry — You remember well that the last time your host Mr Amir Liaquat promoted anti-Ahmedi hate speech on your forum in September of 2008, two prominent Ahmedi leaders were gunned down within 48 hours. You have done it again. Yet another murder (a third) […]
Dawn.com: by Farrukh Khan Pitafi — The terrorist narrative of victimhood, denial and conspiracy theories can easily be deconstructed and dismantled. The closer you want to get to eradicating the menace of terrorism, the bigger this menace seems to get. For the past week, following the attack in Peshawar, our […]
The Truth Message – Part – 1.1: … Jesus is dead. All References for the Messiah Jesus, Son of Mary Tomb of Jesus found in Kashmir (It’s proved & confirmed) Proofs are indeed available now to confirm that Jesus had survived crucifixion and traveled towards India to continue his ministry among the Tribes […]
The Truth Message – Part – 1: … Jesus is dead. Period. Tomb of Jesus found in Kashmir (It’s proved & confirmed) Proofs are indeed available now to confirm that Jesus had survived crucifixion, traveled towards India to continue his ministry among the Tribes of Israel, as he was commissioned, and […]
