Why Do They Hate Us? It’s No Mystery
CounterPunch: What do Barack Obama and Donald Trump have in common? Among other things, they have — or pretend to have — no clue why some Muslims hate us. Click here to read more (external link).
Category Archives: Muslims and Islam
Donald Trump’s “Ban Muslims” Proposal is Wildly Dangerous But Not Far Outside the U.S. Mainstream
Glenn Greenwald: All that said, it’s important not to treat Trump as some radical aberration. He’s essentially the American id, simply channeling pervasive sentiments unadorned with the typical diplomatic and PR niceties designed to prettify the prevailing mentality. Click here to read more (external link).
Trump under fire over his call to bar all Muslims from entering US
Press TV December 8, 2015 Amnesty International and the White House have condemned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to bar all Muslims from entering the United States. “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going
Yes, Calling Only Muslims Terrorists Does Result in Disparate Treatment of Muslims
Marcy Wheeler: Under the current system, the victims of Islamic “ideologically-motivated mass shootings” are treated as more important deaths than all the others (which almost certainly inflates the import of them and thereby feeds more terror). All American mass deaths, ideologically-motivated, Islamic or not, deserve the same access to justice (or chance of prevention). And
Young Muslim woman who fled Afghan Taliban accuses anti-Islam protesters of using her for propaganda
Daily Mail: A young Muslim woman who escaped Afghanistan after defying the Taliban and relocated to Australia has said she was tricked by a far-right group into being used in a ‘propaganda’ video. Rahila Haidary, 20, was filmed by protesters at an anti-Islam rally in Perth on November 22 who then posted the video and
Muslim driver shot by man who mocked Prophet Muhammad
Press TV December 1, 2015 A Muslim taxi driver in the US state of Pennsylvania has been shot and wounded in what appears to be a hate crime. The 38-year-old Moroccan immigrant was shot in the back during the Thanksgiving holiday by his passenger, who talked about the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group and insulted the
Donald Trump: Something ‘nasty’ coming out of Islam
Press TV November 30, 2015 Donald Trump, the leading US Republican presidential candidate, takes his anti-Muslim rhetoric to a whole new level, saying there is “something nasty” coming out of Islam. Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, Trump was asked by panelist John Heilemann if Islam was “an inherently violent religion?” “It could be answered both
Israelis cheered 9/11 attacks, not Muslims: American scholar
Press TV November 29, 2015 US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s recent accusation against Muslims, saying that they cheered for the September 11, 2001 attacks, is a “mangled” version of what really took place on that day, American scholar Kevin Barrett says. The Republican presidential frontrunner said on Saturday that not only Arab Muslims in New
How Muslims are using social media to reclaim their faith
Christian Science Monitor: ‘I heard you wanted us to start wearing ID badges, so I decided to choose one for myself,’ a young Muslim woman wrote in a Facebook post addressed to Donald Trump. ‘I chose the peace sign because it represents my #Islam.’ Click here to read more (external link).
French Muslim body to create ‘licence to preach’ for imams
Paris (AFP) – France’s leading Muslim body said Tuesday it would create a permit to preach for imams in a bid to root out extremists, as well as a new religious body to fight back against jihadist propaganda. Click here to read more (external link).