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Commentary on today’s most pressing issues in the U.S. and around the world.
15 Apr 2020
Islamophobia Has No Place in the Fight Against COVID-19
Originally published by Truthout.org on April 14, 2020. From politics to social media, Muslims or anything associated with Islam (whether correctly or not) are dehumanized as objects against which to measure the intensity or severity… read the complete article
03 Apr 2020 | Politics
Racism and the Terrorist Attacks in Hanau, Germany
On 19 February, 43-year-old Tobias Rathjen killed nine people of color at two shisha bars in Hanau, a small city near Frankfurt. He then returned home, killed his own mother and, finally, committed suicide. Before… read the complete article
02 Apr 2020 | Politics
Xinjiang: Can we call it Genocide?
It’s been three years since reports emerged that China was locking up Uighur and other Turkic Muslim minorities in large-scale camps deceptively dubbed “re-education” centers. Reporting and accounts from Uighurs abroad have revealed the enormity… read the complete article
14 Mar 2020
Christchurch Anniversary: The Islamophobic ‘Great Replacement’ Theory
On March 15, 2019, a 29-year-old white supremacist walked into two different mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand and live-streamed his mass murder of 51 Muslim worshippers in the bloodiest act of Islamophobic terrorism in modern… read the complete article
03 Mar 2020
Muslims in Modi’s India: What Would Gandhi Say?
“I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew– and so are all of you,” the father of India Mohandas Gandhi once allegedly told some of his followers during the height… read the complete article
27 Jan 2020 | Policy/Law
The Muslim Ban Turns Three
Three years ago on January 27th, Donald Trump, the newly inaugurated President of the United States, acted on his campaign promise by instituting a discriminatory ban targeting all individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries. Chaos and… read the complete article
24 Jan 2020 | Policy/Law
World Court: Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim Genocide Must End
On January 23, 2020, the International Court of Justice (the World Court) issued a 28-page ruling against the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) for their genocidal ethnic cleansing campaigns against 1,000,000… read the complete article
21 Jan 2020 | Politics
Germany: Muslim Political Engagement in the Age of Islamophobia
It was great news for the large minority of Germans with a Turkish background. Belit Onay was just elected as the first mayor of a big city, Hannover. He had ran for the Green Party… read the complete article
14 Jan 2020 | Terms/Tropes
China’s attempt to change the Quran
Since the People’s Republic of China increased the repression of Uighur Muslims in late 2016, headlines in Western media have highlighted Chinese authorities’ discriminatory policies against Chinese Muslims in the Western region of Xinjiang. Maya… read the complete article
30 Dec 2019 | Law Enforcement
In 2019, Islamophobia Was Normalized by Those in Power
In 2019, hate crimes against marginalized communities continued to rise, but what distinguished the discrimination and violence targeting Muslims was that it was normalized and weaponized by political leaders around the globe. From the United… read the complete article