Islamophobia

Paul Fuller | (The Conversation) | – – There is a desperate humanitarian crisis underway in Myanmar, centring around the Rohingya Muslims. There is what has been described as a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing” against the approximately one million Rohingya who live in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine. As well as retaliations from […]

Far Right

Le Pen Stripped of Immunity for Tweeting Gruesome IS Images

Juan Cole

TeleSur | – – Circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity” is a crime punishable in France by up to three years’ imprisonment. France’s National Assembly has lifted far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s immunity from prosecution after she posted pictures on Twitter of Islamic State (IS) atrocities. The decision […]

Displaced and Refugees

Escaping Death: Meet The Rohingya Muslim Refugees Fleeing Myanmar (Video)

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AJ+ | (Video News Clip) | – – “Late at night, Dudu Mia and his family wash up on the shores of Bangladesh. Their village in neighboring Myanmar was attacked by the military in an ongoing campaign to purge the Rohingya Muslim minority from the country; the refugees bring with them countless horror stories of […]

Featured

Dear Sean Hannity: Allahu Akbar is in the Catholic Catechism

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Sean Hannity manages to combine being sneaky with being a bully. You think of a bully as maybe too straightforward, someone who hulks over others glaring and tries to impose his will on them. It is the 89 pound weakling we think of as sneaky, going […]

Crime

No, Trump, British Crime isn’t going up because of Muslims

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Hate crimes are up 30% in the UK over the previous year, rising from 62,518 reported offenses in 2015-16 (the year ends in March). The following year, 2016-17, that number rose to 80,393. Brexit and Islamophobic reactions against extremist terrorism are thought to explain the increase. […]

Austria

Austria Bans Burqa, Demands Muslim ‘Integration’ before Elections

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TeleSur | – – The move comes ahead of the Oct.15 elections that critics worry might favor anti-immigration parties. Austria has decided to ban the full Islamic veil or Burqa and other items that mask the face in public spaces. The move comes ahead of the Oct.15 elections that critics worry might place the parties […]

Colonialism

Why we should be wary of Calls for an “Islamic Reformation”

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this demand for an Islamic Reformation functions to inscribe a narrative of Western civilizational superiority over backward, belligerent Islam

Islam-hatred

Muslim-hating Heckler harasses Sikh Politician; he replies with ‘Love and Courage’

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Brampton Focus | Jagmeet Singh | Rally Video | – – Jagmeet Singh, who grew up in Windsor, Canada, is a member of the Ontario legislature. His family is originally from India and belongs to the Sikh religious tradition, which mandates that men wear a turban. Sikhs, essentially a monotheistic reform of Hinduism, are often […]

Displaced and Refugees

Are Muslims allowed to be Sympathetic Victims in US Media, or only Perpetrators?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Libyan activist Hend Amry makes an important point about the relative lack of interest of television news in stories such as the persecution of the Burmese (Myanmar) Muslims by the Buddhist establishment: When Muslims are the victims of terrorism, there isn't the fraction of western attention […]