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Jewish and Muslim leaders join forces to combat xenophobia

Russian and Ukrainian Jewish and Muslim leaders meet in Kiev to discuss rise in Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as part of month-long European efforts to heighten awareness and fight racism, extremism and discrimination...

The Connection Between Zionism & Organized Islamophobia – The Facts

Now we learn that there is more to that claim than unfounded conspiracy theories. It turns out the main funder of anti-Muslim blogger/anti-Park51 organizer Robert Spencer and his hate site JihadWatch are husband and wife duo Aubrey and Joyce Chernick...

Memorial to Marwa Sherbini Vandalised

Vandals have attacked an art project erected in honor of Marwa El-Sherbini, a pregnant headscarved Egyptian woman who was murdered in a German court room, organizers said Friday..

Paranoid Politics: The Denial of Islamophobia

Imagine a fairly widespread, fairly mainstream ethos in which politicians, pundits, and academics convened to denigrate practitioners of Christianity or Judaism. Imagine that these commentators picked apart the New or Old Testament to find its most heinous contents, then used those phrases to justify their hatred and distrust. Imagine a world in which this was utterly acceptable, even encouraged. Now turn on your television...

Woman jailed for abusing and spitting at Muslims as they left mosque

Worshippers leaving a mosque in Colne were subjected to a tirade of racist abuse by a drunken woman who spat on them in the street, a court heard...

The Jewish school where half the pupils are Muslim

It’s infant prize day at King David School, a state primary in Moseley, Birmingham. The children sit cross-legged on the floor, their parents fiddling with their video cameras. The head, Steve Langford, is wearing a Sesame Street tie...

Temecula Valley: A Mosque Controversy?

Planned Temecula Valley mosque draws opposition..

Peace be on you

THERE are only 30,000 Muslims in Oklahoma, a state of 3.7m people, making them well under 1% of the population...

Catalonia: Veil Ban Motion Defeated

Catalonia’s parliament rejected Thursday a move to ban the wearing of the Islamic burqa in public places across the Spanish region after reversing an initial vote...

My Take: New portrait of Muslim America shows community on edge

Now, nearly two years, 75 cities and 100 mosques later, Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam, will be published by the Brookings Institution Press this month...

Anti-Muslim hate rides the bus: ‘Leaving Islam’ ads are prejudice disguised as assistance

Last month, about 30 buses in New York City’s fleet started running ads professing to assist individuals trying to leave Islam; they’ll continue to run through the middle of next week...

On the Not Mosque at Not Ground Zero

The anti-Muslim movement is a curious blend of old-fashioned racism, naive nativism, fear, and the brute, thuggish rage that infects a diseased minority in every generation and finds its scapegoat in every culture...

A. Sivanandan: Fighting anti-Muslim Racism

IRR News spoke to one of the foremost analysts of racism and Black struggle as to how to meet the contemporary challenge of anti-Muslim racism. Should we look at Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism today as something new and apart, or as a continuation of the racism we have known in the UK?..

Former Christian Converted to Islam Terrorized with Anthrax? Double Standards Galore

Joshua Evans, a former Christian missionary and youth minister from South Carolina, converted to Islam some years ago. He began preaching again, but this time explaining why he converted religions...

Right Wing Radio Host Hopes NY Mosque is Blown Up

I just discussed the profound double standards in the mainstream media here. Here’s another one: right wing radio host Michael Berry says that he hopes someone blows up a mosque should one be constructed...

Opposition to a New Mosque, Without the Ground Zero Excuse This Time

The uproar over a proposed mosque near ground zero is predicated around the idea that this specific site was inappropriate for a mosque because of its proximity to the place where Islamic terrorists killed thousands of Americans...

Belgian School Fires Teacher for Wearing Veil

Belgium beat France to the face veil ban, looks like the fall out is already being felt...

Terror Attacks Decrease in Europe

We did a piece on the statistics of European terrorism quite some time ago, and now more evidence that “terror” from Muslims in Europe is an overblown threat...

Spain: Lerida Bans the Face Veil

The town council voted to prohibit the “use of the veil and other clothes and accessories which cover the face and prevent identification in buildings and installations of the town hall.”..

USA Today: Niqab ban is a bad move

From the realm of truly terrible ideas comes this: Parts of Europe suddenly seem enthralled with banning the burqa and niqab, Islamic attire that hides the face...