Islamophobia

Coco Douglas, 8, leaves a sign she painted at a memorial two bystanders who were stabbed to death Friday while trying to stop a man yelling anti-Muslim slurs and acting aggressively toward two young women. (AP/Gillian Flaccus)
President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the fatal stabbings of two Good Samaritans, who tried to stop a man from harassing a pair of women who appeared to be Muslim.
A third man who also came to the aid of the women suffered serious wounds in the attack on a Portland commuter train on Friday, hours before the start of Ramadan, Islam’s holy month.

By Jan Oberg

Today, I am proud to say that NATO has a new home in the Gulf region. And that we have opened a new chapter in our deepening partnership.
NATO S-G, Jens Stoltenberg, in Kuwait on January 24, 2017

Guest post by SARAH ATHER My life has revolved around the concept of God. I have been a Muslim, a theist, an agnostic and an atheist in all types of phases of my life. I am sure, I am still just growing and my perceptions will mature as I grow. My Muslim identity slowly faded … Continue reading A Non-believing Muslim’s Experience of Islamophobia

Burka ban discussions on breakfast TV. Escalating verbal abuse and physical attacks on our streets. Media headlines pointing the finger at Islam in our schools. Intellectuals and politicians arguing over a clash of cultures and the ‘enemy within’.
No doubt about it. Islamophobia has become the new normal for Muslims living in the UK today.
And in the run up to the General Election in June it is only likely to get worse.
Countering this ever-growing hate is critical for the future of our society.

Guest Post by SABIHA FARHAT These are tough times for muslims in India.  But now that I look back and shed my ‘liberal’ prejudices – muslims were never acceptable as ‘who they were’ in Indian society.  I had always blamed my mother for not giving me proper lunch box to carry to school.  But the … Continue reading The Unapologetic Indian Muslim: Sabiha Farhat

  Donald Trump’s crafty manipulation of Islamophobia, we are told, was one of the factors that propelled him to the presidency of the United States of America. He was very much aware of the prevalence of negative sentiments towards Islam and Muslims within segments of the American electorate. Because Islamophobia was part of the public imagination, he had no scruples[Read More...]

Readings in the Jewish Zionist Control of the United States: Interviews with Francis Boyle, James Petras, and Kim Petersen [Part 4] By B. J. Sabri | American Herald tribune | April 24, 2017 Previously I argued that the phony war on “islamic terrorism”, the incessant attacks on and indictment of Islam as a violent religion, […]

By Jonathan Power
April 4th 2017
The long talked-about referendum in Turkey will happen on April 16th. In effect voters have to decide whether the president, Recep Erdogan, in theory the incumbent of a relatively modest political post, should now be given the powers of the president and prime minister together.

( Photo Courtesy : Indian Express) Guest Post by Gurpreet Singh India which has always claimed to be a victim of terrorism for all these years owe answers for one of the worst terrorist incident that is hardly discussed by the anti terror activists across the world either due to silence over Hindutva violence or … Continue reading India owes answers to the world for Samjhauta blasts : Gurpreet Singh

A woman takes part in a candle light vigil for the victims of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin shooting, Aug. 5, 2012, in Milwaukee. An unidentified gunman killed six people at the suburban Milwaukee temple, confusing them for Muslim worshipers. (AP/Jeffrey Phelps)