Counter Punch: High minded academics have been reminding us for years, Orientalism is endemic in the high and low cultures of Western countries. But at a visceral, intuitive level, Islamophobia never used to be – except perhaps in France and England, to the extent that habits of mind that took shape during the days of
Counter Punch: You continue to struggle, on a daily basis, to develop a sense of belonging, citizenship in societies where you often find yourself rejected and excluded. They demand your ‘assimilation’, yet push you away whenever you draw nearer. It is seemingly an impossible task, I know. Click here to read more (external link).
Counter Punch: The Klan has terrorized and killed far more Americans than Islamic terrorists ever have; and despite being America’s oldest terrorist organization, the US government does not officially consider the KKK a terrorist organization, classifying it merely as a “hate group”. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV December 26, 2015 A mob of anti-Muslim extremists has ransacked a prayer hall on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica and set fire to copies of the Holy Qur’an. A local police official said the crowd of people damaged the prayer room in the city of Ajaccio on Friday. The violence came a day after
Counter Punch: Millions of Americans are consequently left in a dangerously childish state of abject ignorance about the actions and evil of “their” nation’s military in the Muslim world and elsewhere and thus about the origins of anti-American Islamic jihad and terror abroad and at home. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV December 22, 2015 Investigators in the US state of California are seeking hate crime charges against a Donald Trump supporter for planning to attack American Muslims. Police in the city of Richmond raided William Celli’s home on Sunday afternoon and arrested him after receiving calls that he was making explosives and plotting to
Press TV December 21, 2015 Muslim leaders in the United States are unveiling initiatives in an effort to tackle Islamophobia, which has particularly peaked in the country due to anti-Islam statements by GOP candidate Donald trump. The plans, including voter registration drives and open-house days at mosques, were announced in Washington on Monday, a day
Associated Press: The Council on American-Islamic Relations said 2015 is shaping up as the worst year ever for U.S. mosques, amid the backlash to the Islamic-extremist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, and the intensifying anti-Muslim rhetoric from Donald Trump and others seeking the GOP presidential nomination. Preliminary 2015 data collected by the civil rights organization
Press TV December 18, 2015 A new report says the United States has not waited for presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s controversial anti-Muslim comments to materialize, as it is already banning Muslims from entering America under different pretexts. According to the Washington Post, US Muslims encounter an array of policies and practices denying them- either citizens
Press TV December 18, 2015 Hate crimes against US Muslim communities have increased sharply in the aftermath of the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris and California, new data reveals. According to a report released by a research body in the California State University, crimes such as assaults on hijab-wearing students, arson attacks and vandalism at mosques and