French national identity must integrate Islamic culture
By Aude Jehan The Daily Star For 3.5 million French Muslims, Ramadan began Friday, July 20. Enthusiasm for fasting seems stronger than ever this year, with 71 percent of Muslims […]
Islamophobia, Sikhophobia and Media Profiling
Huff Post: Simran Jeet Singh On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks shook the American nation to its core. Nineteen individuals associated with al Qaeda coordinated to hijack four passenger jets and use them as weapons of mass destruction. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 claimed approximately 3,000 lives, including all […]
French mayor retreats after suspending fasting Muslims
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS | Wed Aug 1, 2012 7 Aug 1 (Reuters) – A French mayor has revoked the suspension of four Muslim camp counsellors following an uproar after he said they could not work properly because they might be weakened by their all-day fasting for Ramadan. […]
Who’s Afraid of Muslim Women Exercising?
by Avi Spiegel, co-authered by Adina Bathzniki, HUFFINGTON POST Imagine this scenario: a group of women in southern California ask their local YMCA for an extra swim class. The YMCA would have to stay open a bit later than usual, but it happily obliges. It is summer, and the women, […]
Anti-Muslim bias in the British media, and the way forward
By MUDDASSAR AHMED AL ARABIYA NEWS Wednesday, 25 July 2012 Earlier this month, British journalists and editors submitted the report, Race and Reform: Islam and Muslims in the British Media, to the Leveson Inquiry. Led by Lord Justice Leveson, appointed last year by Prime Minister David Cameron, the Leveson Inquiry […]
NYPD Spying: How A 911 Caller Outed NYPD Surveillance Of Muslims In New Jersey
By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN HUFFINGTON POST NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — He saw something. He said something. And he inadvertently uncovered a secret spying operation that the New York […]
Judge grants Tennessee mosque’s petition, orders county to move ahead with opening new building
Source: Fox News Published July 19, 2012 Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Muslims in a Tennessee congregation prepared Thursday for the holy month of Ramadan a day after a federal judge ruled they have a right to occupy their newly built mosque, overruling a county judge’s order that was keeping […]
Outrage after UPS supervisor called Muslim employee, 35, a MONKEY
By EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN Source: MailOnline A Muslim employee of UPS in Orlando, Florida, says that his coworkers and managers routinely humiliated and harassed him while the company did little […]
The great housing apartheid and Muslims of India
Source: The Hindu Written by: Sowmiya Ashok and Mohammad Ali Finding a home to rent in India’s national capital is an arduous task for anyone – but, an investigation by The Hindu has found, almost impossible for citizens who happen to be Muslim. Homeowners and property dealers contacted by reporters often […]
‘The Bar Jew’ and Teesta Setalvad, the crusader of civil rights for Muslims in India
A well known Anti-Semite, walks into a bar and is about to order a drink when he sees a guy close by wearing a kippa, tzitzis, and payos. He doesn’t have to be an Einstein to know that this guy is Jewish.So he shouts over to the bartender so loudly, […]
Geert Wilders Tells US Lawmakers to Ban Mosques
Anti-Islam Dutch Geert Wilders Tells US Lawmakers to Ban Mosques (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – Taking his Islamophobic message to the US state of Colorado, far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has called on American legislator to ban the construction of mosques for helping stop what he says the ‘Islamization’ of […]
Challenging Wilders: The Pen indeed and not the Axe!
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The title of the first chapter of Geert Wilders’ recent book against Islam, Marked for Death: Islam’s War […]
Mosque Construction Continues To Attract Opposition Across U.S.
Huff Post CHICAGO (RNS) Mohammed Labadi had a lot at stake when the DeKalb City Council voted Tuesday (May 29) on a request from the Islamic Society of Northern Illinois University to build a two-story mosque. Labadi, a businessman and Islamic Society board member, said a bigger mosque is needed […]
The Real Muslim Problem
Source: Huff Post By Joyce S. Dubensky CEO, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding There’s lots of talk about the “Muslim Problem” in the U.S. and abroad. Generally, I find that framing troubling. But recently some very ordinary experiences made me realize that there actually is what I can only call […]
Do Americans have the right to ban Mosques?
Huff Post NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Construction of a Tennessee mosque that has been strongly opposed by critics of Islam likely will be stopped after a judge ruled Tuesday that local […]
Islamophobia in Europe: Racism repackaged?
Arwa Al-Rikabi ARAB NEWS “Islam and Muslims are incompatible with rationality”…Who do you think said this? It sounds like something Geert Wilders (leader of Party of Freedom-Netherlands) or Nick Griffin (chairman of British National Party) would say, but it is the French Orientalist Ernest Renan who declared this in the […]
Geert Wilders’ Islamophobia: Defying the Wisdom of Several US Presidents
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Abstract Wilders has been on record saying, ”I don’t hate Muslims, I hate Islam.” So, by his own admission […]
Christians, RSS, Ahmadiya converting Muslims: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind
DFI-Indian Defence NEW DELHI: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JuH), the largest body of imams, on Saturday sought social boycott of Qadyani, also known as Ahmadiyas, a sect who call themselves Muslims but are not accepted as such by the community. In a resolution adopted at the end of its two-day conference here, […]
Islamophobia, new form of political colonialism: Analyst
Source: Press TV A political analyst says that Islamophobia is a type of “political colonialism” and “ideological war” waged by the United States and its Zionist allies against Islam and Muslims. “Islamophobia is a form of political colonialism; an ideological war against Islam and the Muslims,” wrote author Dr. Ismail […]
Why Hatred of Islam Is Not Logical
Patheos.com Time and again, the same illogical claims about Islam keep popping up from various people, whether they are pundits, commenters, or self-styled “experts” on Islam: Islam is “violent,” it calls for the “killing of all non-Muslims,” Muslims “must hate all non-Muslims,” or that Islam is a religion of “domination,” […]