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Archives: Islamophobia
Top 6 Signs Trump is wrong & Islam doesn’t ‘Hate us’
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Republican presidential candidate and billionaire bigot Donald J. Trump said in a CNN interview on Wednesday that "Islam hates us." "I think Islam…
Has The Gateway to Europe Been Shut To Refugees? (AJ+)
AJ+| Video Report|-- The European Union was founded upon the principles of the promotion of human rights. With the refugee crisis ongoing, the EU has come to an agreement with Turkey to…
The Middle East reacts to Trump: ‘Strange Candidates’ with ‘Weird Beliefs’ & anti-Muslim Pogroms
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The meltdown of the US Republican Party is an unlovely sight inside the country, but what do people abroad think about the outlandish…
Debunked: The GOP “Civilization Jihad” Conspiracy Theories
Bridge | (Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding, Georgetown U.) |- - • Presidential candidate Ben Carson has recently peddled a conspiracy theory about a Muslim “civilization jihad” plan to take…
To combat Extremism on both Sides, Europe Needs its own Islam
By Massimo D'Alema and Tariq Ramadan | ( EurActiv.com ) | - - To escape from extremism and xenophobia, Europe needs to carve a European Islam, not an Islam composed of communities…
US Mil. ‘Expert’ equates Muslim Veiling with ‘Passive Terrorism’; One woman has Questions for Him
By Domenica Ghanem | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - The U.S. military apparently thinks Muslim women’s clothing choices — rather than, say, drone strikes — are a driver of terrorism.…
Trumpism & Europe’s Refugees: Poland says it cannot coexist ‘with Middle East people’
By Sarantis Michalopoulos | ( EurActiv.com) A dispute over how to shelter 160,000 refugees in Europe got deeper today when Poland said its population is unable to live with people from the…
Muslims in Europe: A Crisis of Liberalism, not a Clash of Civilizations
Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN | ISLAMiCommentary | - - Are Muslims embraced as part of the mosaic of Europe? Or,…
In Retrospect: A Year of Sharpening Contradictions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Reprint, revised Note: The horrific murder of 12 persons and the wounding of 11 in the attack on the staff of the satirical weely Charlie Hebdo…
Top 5 Things for which We should be grateful to Arabic Writing
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - When a teacher in rural Augusta county, Virginia, decided to expose her students to the Arabic script (a piece of calligraphy writing out…
41% of Trump Supporters want to bomb Aladdin and Jasmine
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Public Policy Polling asked US voters if they favored bombing "Agraba." Some 30% of Republicans said "Yes!" Obviously, this is a a little…
How Islamic law can take on ISIL
By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im | (The Conversation) | - - The media coverage of the terrorist atrocities of Friday November 13 in Paris would seem to promote an almost mythical image of…
Terrorism and the Other Religions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reprint edn. slightly revised. Contrary to what is alleged by bigots like Bill Maher, Muslims are not more violent than people of other…
The Colonial roots of Hating on Muslims, & of Muslim Nationalism
Sami Zubaida | (Open Democracy) | - - The presence of growing Muslim populations in Europe at the same time as the rise of political Islam and the inception of Israel, was…
Pope Francis’ call to host Refugees contrasts w/ anti-Immigrant US “Religious Right”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Not all American Christian leaders have covered themselves in glory when it comes to the issue of Syrian refugees being accepted by the…
GOP Islamophobia: Scott Walker thinks there are only “a Handful” of “Reasonable Muslims”
Via Bridge Project Tracking islamophobia
Slovakia Will Only Accept Christian Migrants
Jo Ankier and Jose Marcelino Orti | (TheLipTV Video News) | - - "Slovakia announced Thursday that it will only accept Christians when it takes in refugees fleeing conflict in Syria under…
Young Muslim-American entrepreneurs Fight ISIL Online
Ayman Mohyeldin | (NBC News Video report) "Startups are launching to help young Muslims, who might fall to ISIS’ luring appeal, grapple with issues of identity and religion." NBC News: "Young Entrepreneurs…