Critical analysis on contemporary topics related to Islamophobia.
02 Nov 2020 | Individuals
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
15 Oct 2019 | Military
Currently, at least one million Uighur Muslims along with other Turkic Muslim minorities, are being detained in a network of concentration camps in the semi-autonomous northwest region of Xinjiang. The Chinese government has employed a... read the complete article
18 Sep 2019 | Politics
The portrayal of minority groups in mainstream media can have a disparate impact on how they are viewed by the general public. In the eighteen years since 9/11, the American Muslim community has borne the... read the complete article
04 Sep 2019
This weekend, two major German states will go to the ballots. Sachsen and Brandenburg, two politically quite different states, will elect the next state parliament. And the last polls made by the ZDF Polit Barometer reveal no good... read the complete article
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