Press TV August 8, 2016 Many American Muslims express frustration with the anti-Muslim rhetoric in the 2016 election cycle which has put them and their faith at the center of the US political debate, according to a report. Even though they make up about 1 percent of the US population, Muslims have been the focus
Press TV July 24, 2016 US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says the recently-announced revisions to his proposed ban on Muslims entering America are an ‘expansion’ of the initial idea and do not mean it is scrapped. Trump announced the controversial ban during the primary contests in December, after a terrorist attack in San Bernardino,
Press TV July 21, 2016 Muslim leaders in the United States have begun to register a million voters to help combat Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Muslims. According to the leaders, Muslim voters could influence results in so-called swing states, such as Virginia and Florida, which are very important in the November presidential
BBC News: A Florida mosque has been removed as a polling station for the 2016 election after local officials received complaints and threats of violence. The Islamic Center of Boca Raton had planned to host a polling site for the state’s primary in August and the general election in November. The site was moved to a nearby library.
Press TV July 13, 2016 Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May has made a reputation for damaging Muslim communities and her anti-Muslim policies are not likely to change now that she leads the country, a new report shows. The former home secretary, who overtook from David Cameron on Wednesday, has pledged to fight extremism by
Press TV June 28, 2016 British Muslims are facing an “explosion” in faith-based hate crimes, which will get much worse following the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU), a survey warns. Tell MAMA, an anti-Muslim hate monitoring group based in London, said in its annual report on Monday that Islamphobic incidents in the UK increased
PressTV / June 20, 2016 Presumptive US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has called for racial profiling of Muslims inside the United States to combat terrorism. “I think profiling is something we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country,” Trump said on CBS News on Sunday. The outspoken billionaire said he doesn’t
Press TV June 15, 2016 The father of Omar Mateen, the suspected shooter in the Orlando nightclub massacre, has expressed sorrow for his son’s actions, saying he will not forgive him. “What he did was totally wrong, I don’t approve of him, what he did, as a father, I don’t forgive him,”, Seddique Mateen said in
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 14, 2016 Donald Trump, the presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee, hardened his position against allowing Muslims into the United States and said his ban would target Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria. In a speech on national security on June 13, a day after 49 people were killed by an Islamic State
VOA News Masood Farivar June 13, 2016 Just hours after the deadliest mass slaying in American history, the owner of a Los Angeles-based satellite TV channel broadcasting to the Afghan diaspora took the unusual step of sitting in on a family show to talk about the tragedy. Since authorities identified the gunman in the Orlando