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FACTSHEET: Fraser Anning
Fraser Anning is a right-wing anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant independent senator in the Australian parliament. read the complete article
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30 May 2019 | Individuals
Factsheet: Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson is a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom and former Foreign Secretary and Mayor of London who has a history of making inflammatory anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, and racist remarks. read the complete article
20 May 2019 | Individuals
Criminalizing Ramadan: Illiberal tendencies in Western democracies
Ramadan has long turned into a political object in Western politics. When Madeleine Albright first started to organize iftar (fast-breaking) dinners at the White House during the Clinton era, many Western governments in Europe started to follow her newly introduced tradition. Congratulating Muslims on the advent of Ramadan has become a political ritual for leaders of Western governments to show respect not only to the followers of the second largest religion in the world, but also to a growing and contested religious minority in their own lands. read the complete article
20 May 2019 | Politics
The Identitarian Austrian Freedom Party
The Identitarian movement has attracted a lot of attention since the white-supremacist terrorist at the Christchurch mosques made headlines, naming his manifesto – "The Great Replacement" – after a famous slogan of this movement. As the world would later get to know, the relationship was even financial. read the complete article
20 May 2019 | Politics
Austria’s Islamophobia and the construction of the authoritarian state
The Austrian government has just implemented a Hijab-ban in primary school, pretending to save Muslim women from ‘political Islam’. This measure reveals the structural alteration of the state in the hands of a right-wing government into an ideological state. read the complete article
26 Apr 2019 | Politics
The Tories have an Islamophobia problem
Anti-Muslim sentiment is rife in the UK’s Conservative Party, from disparaging comments on social media platforms to political campaigns. Despite the overwhelming evidence, the party’s leadership has failed to take the necessary steps in addressing its... read the complete article
22 Mar 2019 | Politics
FACTSHEET: POLLS on ISLAM, MUSLIMS, and ISLAMOPHOBIA in CANADA
Polls and surveys from 2004 to 2017 measuring public opinions in Canada on issues related to anti-Islamophobia legislation, niqab bans, and the prevalence of Islamophobia in Canadian society, have found that most Canadians acknowledge that Islamophobia is a problem in Canada, yet most Canadians hold unfavorable views about Islam and Muslims, and most are open to policies that would single out Muslims for heightened regulation and monitoring in public spaces. read the complete article
04 Mar 2019 | Policy/Law
Islamophobia and the Battlefield of Education
Recently, the Washington Post ran a story on a Christian student who challenged a school history lesson on Islam but lost in court. The high school junior had refused to complete a history lesson on... read the complete article
17 Jan 2019 | Law Enforcement
A people forgotten: The Rohingya
For much of the last century, the story of the Rohingya has been one of a people fleeing forces beyond their control. The genocide that took our Facebook feeds by storm didn’t materialize out of... read the complete article
12 Jan 2019 | Law Enforcement
China justifies its Concentration Camps using “War on Terror” discourse
China has adopted and intensified Islamophobia, identifying the practice of Islam as extremist and the root cause of terrorism, to justify repressive measures aimed at erasing the Uighur Muslim identity. As a result of the... read the complete article