Indonesia blasphemy case: Emotional scenes as Ahok trial begins Source: BBC There were emotional scenes in court on the first day of the blasphemy trial of Jakarta’s governor, a Christian […]
Source: Huffington Post By Hayley Miller; Reporter, The Huffington Post “When one of us is threatened, we all have to speak out.” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch called a spike in anti-Muslim […]
Source: The Guardian As well as an attempt to remove a student’s hijab at the University of New Mexico, books across the country have been defaced A spate of racist incidents has been reported by US librarians in the aftermath of the presidential election. According to data gathered by the […]
Source: CNN Satellite images could prove that villages in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State were deliberately burned to the ground, according to Human Rights Watch. The organization claims that the timing of the various incidents and their “spacial trends” offer evidence of a pattern that is “consistent with military operations and not […]
Source: The Local By the end of 2018, some 410,000 refugees will have jobs in Germany, newspaper Bildreports, citing a new study from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) scheduled for publication this Thursday. Of the 396,000 refugees not working, 192,000 will be signed up for integration courses or […]
Source: BBC The UN and Red Cross have appealed for civilians to be protected, as fighting in Syria’s Aleppo nears its end. The International Committee of the Red Cross […]
Source: Pew Research Center The public makes clear distinctions in assessing the extent to which some groups in the society face discrimination today. A large majority of Americans (82%) say […]
Source: Los Angeles Times Amid a rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes since the presidential election, U.S. Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch plans to make her first visit to a mosque while […]
Source: Chicago Tribune BY Manya Brachear Malik Gillani remembers the first day his world turned upside down. It was Sept. 11, 2001, the day terrorist attacks cast a cloud of […]
Source: Los Angeles Times A 29-year-old Simi Valley man has been arrested and booked on suspicion of committing a hate crime after he stabbed an apparent worshiper near a mosque, […]
Source: ET In this atmosphere, my wife and I watched David Sedaris, a writer/comedian, at Beniroya Hall in downtown Seattle. Before the introduction, the host ranted against Trump, the audience groaned and moaned, and the show went on. Sedaris delivered his trademark monologue, balancing tragedy and comedy, his sister’s suicide and the idyllic Carolina […]
Source: ET Autocratic regimes within the Muslim world have long practiced a contrived and self-serving anti-Semitism. They use state-controlled media and politicised clergies to cultivate anti-Jewish animus in their citizenry. It is taught in schools and mosques through selective and acontextual readings of both scripture and history. This de rigueur hatred serves such regimes several uses. It provides them with […]
Source: ET DUBAI: Saudi police detained a young woman for violating modesty rules after she removed her abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes women are required to wear, on a main street in the capital Riyadh, local media reported on Monday. The Arabic-language al-Sharq newspaper reported that the woman was detained […]
Source: ET Any ban on wearing the niqab in public is one that defends secular society. In Germany today, secularism and the perceived integrity of the nation are strained with the influx of 1.2 million Syrian refugees, the rise in Islamist terrorism, and the looming threat from the so-called Islamic […]
Source: ET Nazneed said she was being targeted by the new headmistress who joined the school in June, 2016. Nazneed had been working at the school for two years and nine months. “Since the new headmistress joined, she has asked me to remove my hijab and burqa on several occasions, […]
Source: ET “A man has been arrested after a man was seriously assaulted at Forest Hill station this afternoon,” British Transport Police said in a statement on their website. “We are investigating the circumstances of the Forest Hill incident, but at this time we are not treating it as terrorism-related.” […]
Source: Reuters By Kanupriya Kapoor and Agustinus Beo Da Costa | JAKARTA As the ranks of protesters thickened in central Jakarta on Dec. 2, turning into Indonesia’s biggest mass demonstration […]
Source: The Guardian John Mann calls Ken Livingstone a ‘Nazi apologist’ in front of TV cameras in April. Photograph: ITN BY Peter WalkerPolitical correspondent The government is to formally adopt a […]
Source: NPR By CAMILA DOMONOSKE It’s a simple sign. One message — “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor.” Three languages: Spanish, English and Arabic. They’ve popped […]
Source: Time By Mandy Oaklander Some people—even those who are strong and healthy—are totally convinced that disease is just around the corner. An estimated 5-10% of people have health anxiety, meaning […]