Harriet Whitehead Reporter Around 300 people attended Witton Park, Blackburn to run/walk 3 miles in memory of the Manchester attack. PICTURE: Shafiq Khan. 0 comments CHILDREN as young as nine have been branded terrorists following recent attacks, according to research by Childline. The charity has been holding hundreds of counselling sessions […]
Don’t tell me today that Islamophobia doesn’t exist, or that it’s been overplayed by Muslims ‘playing the victim’. If anything, Muslims are wary of reporting hate crimes against their communities […]
Local By Faiz Siddiqui, Julie Zauzmer and Sarah Pulliam Bailey June 18 at 11:00 PM Police found remains Sunday thought to be those of a missing Virginia teenager who they […]
Fourteen years on from Britain’s decision to invade Iraq, the negative connotations of the Arabic language have become worse. It’s upsetting, because contrary to its associations of barbarism, it is actually a deliciously camp language full of hyperbole and proverb Amrou Al-Kadhi @glamrou When Britain invaded Iraq in 2003, I […]
Source: Russian Times Nine wooden stakes topped with pieces of a dead pig have been found on a plot of land where a mosque is scheduled to be built in […]
The number of incidents is truly staggering. These have not, however, been sufficient for the Conservatives to hold an independent inquiry into Islamophobia Miqdaad Versi a day ago 252 comments It is quite reasonable to expect that in this day and age, all bigotry will be challenged and scrutinised rigorously. […]
BY Omar Mahmood, April 21, 2017 In Pakistan, a mob killed a journalism student because he didn’t believe. That could have been me. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/04/21/apostate-pakistan-lynched-islamophobia-blasphemy-column/100708734/#sthash.tSsNfeVU.dpuf (Photo: Abdul Majeed, AFP/Getty Images) 18477CONNECTTWEET 7LINKEDIN 101COMMENTEMAILMORE Last week, a 23-year-old journalism student was beaten to death by a mob outside the cafeteria of Abdul Wali Khan University […]
‘This whole bloody place is a disgrace.’ 17/04/2017 12:05 Chris York Senior Editor, Huffington Post UK Britain First has “invaded” an Islamic bookshop in Birmingham prompting localChristians, politicians and the police to spend Easter Sunday “uniting in peace”. Members of the far-right group filmed themselves in the store on Alum […]
Public debate has become toxic and polarised: on one side are the people who call all Muslims terrorists and extremists, and on the other are the people who cry ‘Islamophobia’ the moment anyone opens a discussion about Islamist extremism in Britain Sara Khan @sarakhaninspire Muslim children carrying flowers join a vigil […]
Apr 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The world is facing several crises today. In the Middle East, so far, there is a security crisis; other countries around the world are facing a serious ideological threat. Europe’s problems are, in part, related to external factors such as refugees, but […]
Muslim woman shocked at those who ‘draw conclusions based on hate and xenophobia’ after anti-Islam blogs circulated her image A second photo (above) shows the woman visibly distressed as she […]
Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy testifies in front of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee in March 2006.Larry Downing / Reuters PETER BEINART On March 6, the zoning board in Bayonne, New Jersey, turned down a request to convert an old warehouse into a mosque. Such denials […]
HATEM BAZIAN@hatembazian Protesters holding up signs in a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order banning Muslims from certain countries, Seattle, Jan. 29. It is high time for a courageous political, social, and economic faith-based coalition between American Muslims and Jews (who are aware of the danger of Zionism) […]
The National Front leader thought that Lebanon, burdened with a million Syrian refugees, should send them home as soon as the war is over. She clearly did not know that tens of thousands of Lebanese are actually related to Syrians Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices Marine Le Pen has been doing a […]
Anti-Muslim tirades prompt words of support PD Canadians voice support for Muslims amid ‘hatred’ unleashed on Liberal MPs Minister of Canadian Heritage Melanie Joly makes an announcement about an anti-Islamophobia motion on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, February 15, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle Posted: Friday, February 17, […]
Our Source: Swiss Info Reporting by Shadia Nasralla and Andrea Shalal; Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Michael Nienaber MUNICH (Reuters) – German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen warned […]
SOURCE: ISMAILIMAIL POSTED ON FEBRUARY 17, 2017 MP Arif Virani, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, speaking on behalf of the governing party in support of Motion 103 that deals with Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination. Mr. Arif Virani (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage (Multiculturalism), Lib.): […]
Feb 11,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Ian Buruma Those who have been telling us that Islam, not just revolutionary Islamism, is a lethal threat to Western civilisation should now feel satisfied: the president of the United States, and his main advisers, agree with them. In the tweeted words of Donald Trump’s […]
BURKA BAN Few veiled women fined in Ticino FEB 6, 2017 – 21:41 This billboard from the conservative Swiss People’s Party urges voters not to make it easier for third generation immigrants to become citizens. (Keystone) Six women have been fined since a so-called burka ban went into effect in […]
SADIK ÜNAY@sadikunay A storm was already looming on the horizon when President Donald Trump assumed power in the U.S. As one of the least popular American presidents in recent history, citizens have protested against his protectionist, populist, xenophobic and far-right political platform. Indeed, less than one month into his term, […]