Islamophobia

Fox far right wing propagandist Jeanine Pirro came after Ilhan Omar for veiling, saying it is unconstitutional for her to follow the sharia and accusing her, horror of horrors, of dual loyalty. Fox News ‘Strongly Condemns’ Jeanine Pirro’s Remarks on Rep. Ilhan Omar Pirro says that the Qur’an requires women to cover their heads. Many […]

Featured

Vile Racism in W. Va. GOP: Rep. Ilhan Omar likened to al-Qaeda & LGBTQ Folks to KKK

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Republicans in the West Virginia state legislature held a “GOP takes the Rotunda” event at the state capitol on Friday. As part of this event they hung a poster of the 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers, labeled “Never Forget– You said.” Below it they placed a picture of […]

Feminism

‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’

Open Democracy

By Nandini Archer | – (OpenDemocracy.net) – From France to Malaysia, Muslim women’s rights activists are challenging those who ask them to ‘choose between being a Muslim and a feminist’. “Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes on the one hand and Islamic fundamentalists on the other”, Suri Kempe, an outspoken rights activist from Malaysia, told […]

Islamophobia

GOP Rep’s Tweet seen as Racist toward Muslim-American Congresswoman (Young Turks)

The Young Turks

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | The Young Turks | – The Young Turks: “Republican’s Tweet seeen as Racist On Twitter” Lee Zeldin let his bigotry show on Twitter. A Republican congressman was angered when Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a Muslim and a Somali-American, was chosen to be on a committee with oversight on U.S.foreign […]

Immigration

Democrats To Deny Funding to Trump’s Muslim Visa Ban on 2nd Anniversary

TeleSur

(TeleSur) – “We are dropping American made bombs on countries … the United States then made the decision to block those people inside those countries…” Democratic members of the United States Congress rallied against President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban Monday which reached its second anniversary. “I know first-hand how destructive this policy is to millions […]

Islamophobia

How to Talk about Islamophobia in the Age of Trump: There aren’t Two Sides to Bigotry

Basil Abdelkarim

(Informed Comment) – In late 2016, on the eve of the national election, I sat down in front of my computer to read an article about then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. My 9-year old son leaned over my shoulder to sneak a peak at the screen, frowned, and wondered aloud, “What? It’s going to […]

Featured

How Long til Trump & GOP Radical Islamophobia causes Major Massacre?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Three extremist white nationalists who plotted to blow up a Somali-American apartment complex in Kansas have been sentenced to 25 years in prison. The men made and tested explosives to use on the Somali immigrants, whom they called “cockroaches” and other terms that CNN couldn’t repeat. Somalis are Sunni Muslims. […]

Islamophobia

The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism: Islamophobia and Bill Maher

Evelyn Alsultany

By Evelyn Alsultany | – ( Mizan) – On the October 3, 2014 episode of the HBO talk show Real Time with Bill Maher, the panel included New York Times bestselling author (and key figure in the New Atheism movement) Sam Harris; actor/filmmaker Ben Affleck; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof; and former chairperson of the […]

Islamophobia

Can Online anti-Muslim Hate Speech be Combated? There’s an App for that

The Conversation

By Bertie Vidgen and Taha Yasseri | – In a landmark move, a group of MPs recently published a working definition of the term Islamophobia. They defined it as “rooted in racism”, and as “a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”. In our latest working paper, we wanted to better […]