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Keyword: Islamophobia

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Special Reports

The criminalising of US Muslims

Tahir Mahmoud

Ramadan 16, 14222001-12-01

According to some observers, it has almost become a crime to be a Muslim in the US since September 11. Only those Muslims are tolerated who submit to US supremacy.

Features

Understanding and countering Western Islamophobia

James Compton Bockmeir

Dhu al-Hijjah 05, 14212001-03-01

It is no secret that the media and political establishment in North America are viciously anti-Islamic. This continent’s power elite is obsessed with the Islamic movement, insisting on projecting it as the new “threat” replacing communism.

World

Muslim campaign against repressive US laws gathers momentum

Tahir Mahmoud

Jumada' al-Ula' 04, 14201999-08-16

The Muslim campaign against the US government’s Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, by which Muslims can be arrested, imprisoned and deported without ever being charged with any offence, or even informed of the evidence being used against them...

Features

Is the west’s high-tech anti-Muslim global spying operation over-rated?

M.A. Shaikh

Rajab 06, 14201999-07-16

The US and Britain are engaged in aggressive and illegal technology-based spying, which enables them - among other things - to monitor telephone communications anywhere in the world.

World

US Supreme Court confirms government’s right to target Islamic activists

Tahir Mahmoud

Safar 16, 14201999-06-01

On May 19, Dr Mazen el-Najjar, a Palestinian professor from Tampa, Florida, completed two years in an American jail for reasons he has never been told. He is the father of three American-born children.

Features

Orientalists plot against the Qur’an under the guise of academic study and archive preservation

Aisha Geissinger

Muharram 30, 14201999-05-16

In 1972, a ‘paper grave’ was found by labourers doing restoration work in the Great Mosque in Sana’a, Yemen. Between the mosque’s inner and outer roofs was a collection of old parchment and paper documents, damaged books and individual pages.

Special Reports

Pakistanis need to beware of Muslims’ bitter experiences of peace

Zafar Bangash

Dhu al-Qa'dah 28, 14191999-03-16

Nobody in the world needs peace more than the Muslims. From Srinagar to Sarajevo, and from Pristina and Palestine to the Philippines, they are being killed like flies. Thus, if someone really offers them peace, Muslims eagerly accept it. Peace, however, like everything else in the world, has lost its real meaning, at least when it applies to Muslims.

World

Why the French see red when they see a blue headscarf

Mohamoud Sheikh Ahmed

Shawwal 14, 14191999-02-01

The French apparently see nothing wrong in naming their children after Muslim football stars (presumably as long as they are not called Muhammad--a name redolent with Islamic connotations) who secure victory for their country in world cup final...

World

Muslim girl suspended from school for responding to anti-Palestinian article

Our Correspondent in Pretoria

Sha'ban 27, 14191998-12-16

A 14-year-old Muslim girl has been suspended from an exclusive school for responding to an anti-Palestinian article at the behest of her history teacher. Layla Cassim, a grade 10 student at Crawford College, in Johannesburg...

World

Casual murder of Samira Adamu by Belgian police should ring down alarm bells

Our Europe Correspondent

Rajab 11, 14191998-11-01

The cavalier fashion in which Samira Adamu was smothered with a pillow by Belgian police on a plane at Brussels airport in full view of crew and passengers illustrates how expendable Muslims have become nowadays.

World

Mass trial of Muslims in Paris adds insult to injury

M.S. Ahmed

Jumada' al-Ula' 25, 14191998-09-16

The prosecutors in the trial of 138 Muslim men and women which opened in Paris on September 1 did not even bother to present any evidence of guilt, relying instead on mere innuendo and assertions that the accused had maintained links with ‘terrorist groups’ in Algeria before their arrest in 1994 and 1995.

World

FBI harassment of Muslims in the US

Crescent International

Rabi' al-Thani 23, 14191998-08-16

America is a land of contradictions. It calls itself ‘the land of the free and the brave’ but the reality is very different, as far as Muslims are concerned. They have been targeted as the ‘new enemy’ and harassed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

World

EU uses World Cup to demonise Islam

M.S. Ahmed

Safar 21, 14191998-06-16

The five European Union (EU) States which first began to swoop on their Muslim populations at the end of May in a cowardly and cynical exploitation of the World Cup did not exactly use those words.

Special Reports

Muslims facing intolerance in Canada

Abul Fadl

Safar 06, 14191998-06-01

At first glance Canada appears an ideal place to live in. With an international reputation as a country that takes extra care in protecting and promoting the rights of minorities, it seems like a haven where fairness thrives and equality prospers.

World

Germany leads new tide of racism and xenophobia sweeping Europe

Mahmoud Ahmed Shaikh

Muharram 19, 14191998-05-16

Throughout Europe, political parties campaigning on anti-foreigner platforms are chalking up remarkable gains, with Germany leading the way as poll figures and recently published figures on racist attacks show.

World

Garaudy on trial for his thoughts, Rushdie at large, laughing

Our Correspondent in Paris

Shawwal 19, 14181998-02-16

A well-known and respected French scholar, Roger Garaudy, is on trial in the land of ‘liberty’ and ‘fraternity’ for publishing a thoroughly researched and schorlarly work on the mythical foundations of Israeli policy...

Features

Urging the ‘North American pig’ to cut consumption

J A Progler

Sha'ban 16, 14181997-12-16

In its 1997 report, the United States Agriculture Department revealed that, ‘Americans routinely toss away uneaten vegetables, day-old bread and other pantry items, wasting one-fourth of the nation’s total food supply.

World

No Muslims for us please, we are Danes

Crescent International

Sha'ban 16, 14181997-12-16

A wave of xenophobia is sweeping Denmark, but its nice Nordic people reject any charges of racism - arguing, without any trace of irony, that as ‘nationalists and Christians’ they merely object to having ‘Muslims and Arabs’ in their midst.

World

Muslim Parliament conference puts Europe’s record on Islam in the dock

Our Correspondent from London

Jumada' al-Akhirah 30, 14181997-11-01

Heralded as Europe’s first collective response to Islamophobia, the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain’s European conference, aptly entitled ‘Islamophobia - the oldest hatred’, brought together an impressive line up of speakers, activists and scholars from across Europe.

World

How Greece gets away with its war on Muslims

Mahmoud Ahmed Shaikh

Rabi' al-Thani 12, 14181997-08-16

Greece not only persecutes its own Muslims but also plays a conspicuous role in the programme of obliteration directed at the presence of Islam in the Balkans.

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