Report: Exploring Growing Hindu Nationalism in India: A Social Media Analysis of the Nupur Sharma Controversy

On November 26, 2022, in Hindu Nationalism, India, Islamophobia, by admin

Several anti-Muslim incidents and communal clashes in India, where 80 per cent of the population is Hindu and 14 per cent Muslim, have made the headlines in recent years and spilled over into diaspora communities in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. T he explosive controversy surrounding Indian politician Nupur Sharma’s anti-Muslim remarks during a […]

Quebec Court of Appeal to evaluate whether secularism law unfairly targets Muslim women

On November 20, 2022, in Civil Rights, Islamophobia, by admin

As arguments wrapped at the Quebec Court of Appeal Wednesday for the legal challenge to the province’s secularism law — known as Bill 21 — the panel of judges hinted that the case hinges on whether the bill disproportionately discriminates against Muslim women who wear the hijab. “That’s a tough question, but it’s really at […]

Chinese being ‘paid to marry Muslims in plan to wipe out Uyghurs’

On November 17, 2022, in China, Human Rights, Islamophobia, Uyghur Genocide, by admin

Human rights group finds Xinjiang officials are bribing and threatening Uyghur women into forced marriages Chinese people are being paid to marry Muslims in order to wipe out the Uyghur population, a human rights body has said. Local authorities are using financial incentives and blackmail to force Uyghurs and members of the Han majority into […]

Georgia candidate makes history as first known Muslim and Palestinian woman elected to state House

On November 15, 2022, in Electoral Politics, RUN FOR US, by admin

Ruwa Romman remembers the sadness she felt as an 8-year-old girl sitting in the back of a school bus watching classmates point to her house and erupt in vicious laughter. “There’s the bomb lab,” they jeered in yet another attempt to brand her family as terrorists. On Tuesday, the same girl – now a 29-year-old […]

The Midterm Results Show Muslim Americans Are No Longer on the Fringe of U.S. Politics

On November 15, 2022, in Civil Rights, Electoral Politics, USA, by admin

The Nov. 8 midterms almost saw Dr. Mehmet Oz become the first Muslim U.S. Senator. The Republican TV doctor-turned-politician—who wasn’t exactly popular among a wide swathe of Muslim Americans—would have been a controversial first for the community. But Oz’s loss to Democrat John Fetterman in Pennsylvania masks what was otherwise a record-breaking election for the […]

How Modi’s politics of hate and fear is causing harm to Indian citizens both home and abroad

On November 12, 2022, in India, Islamophobia, by UV

Human rights experts have been sounding the alarm about the global threat posed by Hindu nationalism for years, but these warnings went largely ignored – that is until mobs of radicalised Hindu extremists carried out a wave of attacks against Muslims in the UK city of Leicester last month. Similar attacks have been committed by […]

U.S. Government Quietly Declassifies Post-9/11 Interview With Bush and Cheney

On November 9, 2022, in War on Terror, by UV

In a newly declassified interview conducted in 2004, Bush shows not a glimmer of awareness of the destruction and carnage he had unleashed on the world. ON WEDNESDAY, AS the eyes of the U.S. public were focused on Tuesday’s midterm election results, a U.S. government panel quietly released a newly declassified summary of an Oval […]

Town suspends Muslim police chief who said he intends to sue over racist comments

On November 8, 2022, in Civil Rights, Islamophobia, USA, by UV

A Muslim police chief in New Jersey was placed on administrative leave Thursday, several weeks after filing a notice that he intends to sue the town where he works because of alleged discrimination and a hostile work environment. Ahmed Naga, the first Muslim chief of the Long Hill Township Police Department in Morris County, was […]

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