Islam-hatred

The Bridge Initiative . | – – ACT for America hosted a series of marches “against sharia” in 27 cities across the United States. To many Americans — for whom sharia is synonymous with violence, oppression, and intolerance — these rallies will seem appropriate efforts to promote human rights and civil liberties. In reality, however, […]

Donald Trump

Trump’s ‘Good Muslim, Bad Muslim’ False Divide

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By Dina El-Rifai | (Otherwords.org) | – – The “war on terror” has killed millions of innocent people. You don’t have to be a “bad Muslim” to oppose that. All right, America. We need to have a talk. The president recently returned from Saudi Arabia, where he gave his Muslim hosts a speech about the […]

Donald Trump

Trumpism: White Terrorist Murders 2 after harassing Muslim-American

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TeleSur | – – According to one witness, the suspect was heard saying “get off the bus, and get out of the country because you don’t pay taxes here.” Amidst rising rates of violence directed toward Muslims and those percieved to be Muslim in the United States, two men on a commuter train in Portland, […]

Islam-hatred

Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes in US Rose 57 Percent in 2016: Report

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TeleSur | – – Anti-Muslim hate crimes in the United States rose by a staggering 57 percent in 2016, according to a new report released Tuesday by Muslim civil rights group Council of American Islamic Relations, CAIR. The report, titled “The Empowerment of Hate,” found that Muslim bias incidents rose by 65 percent between 2014 […]

Far Right

For First Time, a US President backs a Fascist France

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – While she is highly unlikely to win the run-off presidential election on May 7 against the Bill Clinton of France, Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen managed to come in second in the first round on Sunday. She came ahead of the leaders of both major French […]

France

Is there such a thing as a ‘Muslim vote’ in France?

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By Fatima Khemilat | (The Conversation) | – – On April 8, the well-known French television show Salut les terriens turned sour when guests discussed the very sensitive topic of the so-called “French Muslim vote”. One panelist, journalist Sonia Mabrouk, argued that Muslims in France are constantly used by opportunists, from politicians to intellectuals, as […]

Displaced and Refugees

Trump: Syrian Refugees can have Tomahawks but not Asylum in US

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By Lyndal Rowlands | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday night described the deepening Syrian refugee crisis as partial justification for the first direct U.S. airstrike against the Syrian government, even though the United States still bans all refugees from Syria. Several rights groups responded Friday, […]

Donald Trump

Iranian Woman Visiting US arrested, taken to distant Jail Despite Valid Visa

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TeleSur | – – Alia Ghandi was denied U.S. entry to visit her family in Portland. Although courts rejected the so-called “Muslim ban,” an Iranian tourist was detained at an airport and jailed “without cause” in Portland, Oregon. Regardless of the fact that federal courts have repeatedly outlawed U.S. President Donald Trump’s discriminatory anti-Muslim travel […]

Far Right

Populist Wilders may have come up short, but Dutch intolerance is still real

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By Annemarie Toebosch | (The Conversation) | – – The Dutch elections on March 15 have received a lot of attention in the international media. The reason for the attention is clear: A Trump lookalike populist, Geert Wilders, was rumored to win big as part of a Western populist movement that some call the “Patriotic […]