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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Source: The Guardian While the burkini debate has stoked considerable coverage and discussion abroad, the debate is nothing new at home. To me, it seems to be a follow-up in […]
Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stopped by Morning Joe on Monday, presumably to promote his new children’s book, Stealing the Game, but the hosts also asked him to discuss a […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rahel Gebreyes; Editor, HuffPost Video “That should not be what America is about.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was 24 years old when he changed his given name andembraced […]