Commentary on today’s most pressing issues in the U.S. and around the world.
15 Sep 2020 | Individuals
Austria is cementing its authoritarian policy of demonizing Muslims at an alarming rate. The ruling centrist-right, Christian-democratic Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) attempted to close mosques in 2018 and implemented a school headscarf ban in 2019,... read the complete article
31 Aug 2020 | Individuals
An August 14th article in the Wall Street Journal revealed that top Facebook policy executives in India failed to remove hate speech promoted by Hindu nationalists despite the content being “flagged internally for promoting violence.”... read the complete article
30 Jun 2020 | Policy/Law
The COVID-19 pandemic has been regarded as a “great equalizer;” however, the effects of the novel coronavirus clearly reveal the deep-seated inequalities that exist in society today. In the United Kingdom, this is visible in... read the complete article
21 Apr 2020
Originally published by The New Arab on April 17, 2020. On 21 April, 2019, as Sri Lanka’s 1.5 million Christians celebrated Easter Sunday, bombs ripped through churches and hotels in Colombo, Negombo, and Batticaloa, killing at least 350 and injuring... read the complete article
20 Apr 2020 | Individuals
The current coronavirus pandemic has forced our entire human race to adjust to a “new normal” of quarantine lifestyles around the globe. At the same time, we must not forget that there are also millions... read the complete article
15 Apr 2020
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
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
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
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
“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
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