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Critical analysis on contemporary topics related to Islamophobia.
05 Jan 2022 | Politics
2021 Islamophobia In Review: Canada
In July of 2021, Mustafa Farooq of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) made a chilling observation: “The reality is that Canada has suffered more mass killings motivated by Islamophobia in the last five years than any other country in the G7. This cannot be allowed to continue.” read the complete article
20 Aug 2021 | Individuals
Global Islamophobia & The “Great Replacement” Conspiracy Theory
In March 2019, a young white supremacist walked into 2 different mosque locations in Christchurch, New Zealand and livestreamed a horrific massacre of 51 innocent Muslim worshippers on Facebook Live in the worst act of… read the complete article
19 Jan 2021
An Update on the Rohingya Crisis
This article was originally published in South Asia Voices. Three years after the Myanmar Army orchestrated genocide in Rakhine State, the Rohingya crisis continues. Almost 1 million survivors of the Army’s brutal crackdown are stuck in… read the complete article
02 Nov 2020 | Individuals
Election 2020: Where do the candidates stand on key issues?
We are fast approaching the November 3, 2020 U.S. Presidential elections, where President Donald Trump seeks re-election and former Vice-President Joe Biden aims to “Build America Back Better.” For an overview of where the candidates… read the complete article
27 Jul 2020 | Military
Concentration camps, police state, and now forced birth control: How China is committing genocide against Uighur Muslims
China’s decades-long repression of Uighur and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang (referred to by many Uighurs as East Turkestan) drastically increased in its brutality and reach in 2017. Since then, Beijing has transformed the region… read the complete article
08 Jul 2020 | Terms/Tropes
COVID-19 Racial Disparities Are One of Many Outcomes of Structural Racism
Nearly two months after the first known death from the novel coronavirus was logged in the U.S., protests spread around the country in support of ending stay-at-home orders. Ohio, Minnesota, Virginia, Florida, Texas, and several… read the complete article
14 May 2020 | Policy/Law
COVID-19 is exacerbating Islamophobia in India
As the world battles COVID-19, Muslims in India are faced with an additional threat: rising Islamophobia. The pandemic in India has brought a spike in anti-Muslim harassment, discrimination, and violence, but the phenomenon is not… read the complete article
24 Feb 2020 | Terms/Tropes
Remembering Auschwitz, Deploying Islamopohbia?
Last month, political and religious leaders around the world commemorated the end of the Nazi cruelty, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp, the Konzentrationslager. The systematic industrial killing of six… read the complete article
11 Feb 2020
Study: Muslim Students Graduate at Top of Pluralism Scale
In a time when societal polarization seeks to demonize populations on racial, ethnic, religious and/or sociopolitical lines, many people today are looking towards our younger generations to ameliorate some of these major demographic divisions. Led… read the complete article
09 Dec 2019
How Islamophobic Politics Shapes People’s Attitudes in Austria
From December 2017 to May 2019, Austria was governed by a coalition of the centrist-right Peoples Party (OVP) and the right-wing extremist Freedom Party of Austria (FPO). While the latter has been the traditional stronghold… read the complete article