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US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar introduces new resolution condemning Islamophobia

US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar introduced a new resolution on Thursday that condemns Islamophobia globally and commemorates the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, which left more than 50 Muslim worshippers dead in New Zealand. The measure, co-sponsored by 20 Democratic members of Congress, was introduced on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and comes one week after the UN commemorated its first annual day to combat Islamophobia. "This year, [Ramadan] is […]

24 March 2023

International

Islamophobia should be a criminal offense

Islamophobia needs to be recognised as a crime, a senior Malaysian official said on Friday, calling for "firmer" response by Muslim countries towards incidents of burning of the Muslims' holy book, the Quran. "Anything that is Islamophobic can actually be considered as something which is criminal in nature. So, much like anti-Semitism is a criminal offense in many other countries," Abdul Razak Ahmad, a Special Representative of Malaysia's Foreign Minister, […]

4 February 2023

International

New course at Stanford University teaches students about Islamophobia in the US

INTERNATIONAL There’s a new course that was offered this Fall for the first time at California's Stanford University, and it’s all about teaching students how Islamophobia manifests in the United States. The course, named Interrogating Islamophobia, is being taught by Abiya Ahmed, the associate dean and director of Stanford’s Markaz Resource Center, the student-run newspaper, The Stanford Daily, first reported. Islamophobia remains steady in the US, but why do some Muslims […]

29 November 2022

International

Muslim Olympic medalist sued for defamation for highlighting story of teacher pulling girl’s hijab

INTERNATIONAL Ibtihaj Muhammad, an American Olympic medalist in fencing, is being sued by a teacher for defamation after a social media post she made about the teacher allegedly pulling on a girl’s hijab went viral. The incident took place in October 2021, when the seven-year-old girl told her mom that her second-grade teacher, Tamar Herman, “approached her, grabbed her hijab, pulling it back, touching her face and hair” and exposed her […]

19 October 2022

International

UK: Muslim students threaten to disaffiliate from NUS after Islamophobia claims

INTERNATIONAL The Federation of Student Islamic Societies (Fosis), the national body for Muslim students in Britain, has threatened to launch a disaffiliation campaign against the National Union of Students (NUS) after the NUS suspended its president-elect, Shaima Dallali. Earlier this year, Jewish students accused Dallali of antisemitism and homophobia over old tweets she posted. Dallali denied the claims and welcomed the QC-led investigation into her actions. But following a leaked […]

3 September 2022

International

US Roe v Wade debate brings up age-old Islamophobic tropes

INTERNATIONAL On Monday, an initial draft opinion leaked by Politico suggested that the US Supreme Court could soon overturn the decades-old Roe v Wade ruling, a move that would have a monumental impact on reproductive rights in the US. What followed was a slew of outrage on social media, news articles, and opinion pieces. But within that backlash, a repetitive, racist and Islamophobic trope reemerged. In castigating the Supreme Court justices who wrote the draft ruling, […]

29 June 2022

International News

Canadian Muslim family killed in ‘premeditated’ attack, police say

Police in the Canadian province of Ontario said a man driving a pick-up truck slammed into a Muslim family in a "premeditated" attack, killing four and seriously injuring a nine-year-old boy. Local news outlets said the victims were waiting to cross a street in the city of London, Ontario, about 200km southwest of Toronto, on Sunday evening, when the car mounted the curb. The victims were two women aged 77 […]

8 June 2021

International News

Austria seeks to criminalise ‘political Islam’ as it unveils broad new anti-terror measures

Austria plans to introduce a series of anti-terrorism measures following last week's deadly attack in Vienna, including the criminalisation of political interpretations of Islam that are deemed to encourage violent extremism. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Wednesday that the measures were intended to protect society from extremists he described as "ticking time bombs". The proposals include the ability to keep individuals convicted of terror offences behind bars for life, facilitate electronic surveillance of people convicted […]

12 November 2020

International News

Israel approves funds for ‘anti-Muslim hate group’ to fight BDS

Casting further light on the nexus between Zionism and the rise of the Islamophobia industry, the Israeli government has approved a grant to an American “anti-Muslim hate group”. Documents obtained by Jewish-American magazine, Forward, through a Freedom of Information Act request, revealed that Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, transferred $40,000 to a Tennessee-based Christian Zionist organisation which is on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLT) watch list of hate groups. […]

4 September 2020

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