Washington Post: For the first time in nearly two decades, Ramadan has come and gone without the White House recognizing it with an iftar or Eid celebration, as had taken place each year under the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. In recent weeks, several former White House staff members told The Post they would usually begin
Henry Ridgwell VOA News June 22, 2017 The British government is being urged to do more to tackle violence by right-wing extremists, following the attack outside London’s Finsbury Park mosque in the early hours of Monday morning. One person died and at least 11 were injured when 47-year-old Darren Osborne from Wales drove his van
Press TV June 20, 2017 The brutal murder of a teenage Muslim girl in the US state of Virginia has sparked outrage among Muslim communities across the country. Nabra Hassanen, 17, was kidnapped from near a mosque in northern Virginia and repeatedly hit with a baseball bat by a man named Darwin Martinez Torres, 22,
Press TV June 19, 2017 At least one person has died and ten others are injured in an attack on Muslims leaving a London mosque in what Britain’s largest Muslim organisation says is a “violent manifestation of Islamophobia.” The British police on Sunday night confirmed that one man was pronounced dead at the scene and at least eight
The Huffington Post: An unholy alliance of Islamophobic hate group members, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and armed anti-government militia members will rally against the nonexistent threat of sharia, or Islamic, law in the U.S this weekend. The “March Against Sharia” rallies are set to place on Saturday in 29 cities across 21 states, and are being organized
Press TV: Edward Corrigan, an international human rights lawyer from Ontario, says the rise of anti-Muslim hate crimes in Britain has its roots in a campaign supported by Western governments and media. “There is this campaign to vilify Muslims and Israel is supporting that for the most part,” Corrigan told Press TV on Thursday. Click here for
Press TV: Sukant Chandan, a filmmaker and political commentator, says Prime Minister Theresa May is using the terrorist organizations directly supported by “leading Western regimes” in order to target the Muslim community in Britain, adding that Muslims are always the victims of terrorism globally. Click here to read more (external link). Related If Trump So Quick
Press TV June 2, 2017 A number of Muslims have held a demonstration outside the Trump Tower in Manhattan in New York City to protest against US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric against Islam. Around 100 Muslims who were invited by two advocacy groups, MPower Change and the New York State Immigrant Action Fund, showed up
The Huffington Post: The anti-Muslim white supremacist charged with murdering two men in Portland, Oregon, when they intervened in his bigoted tirade at two teenagers is the kind of extremist that former Department of Homeland Security official Daryl Johnson worried about. Click here to read more (external link). Related The White Terror Crisis In Portland These
Reuters: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to host an event to mark Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, two U.S. officials said, apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions for nearly 20 years. Since 1999, Republican and Democratic secretaries of state have nearly always hosted either an iftar dinner