Islamophobia

No Solutions to British Muslim Problems without Mutual Respect

Jonathan Russell of the Quilliam Foundation has a logical premise on which he bases his piece about the signatories of the Joint UK Muslim Statement. It is indeed a valid

Voltaire

The Ugly Side of Voltaire

I had always recognised Voltaire as a philosopher and an important cog of Western liberal thinking but I recently came across a play written by him: Le fanatisme, ou Mahomet le Prophete, literally Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet. Voltaire, and his admirers, have tried

ban

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer barred from UK

In a welcome move, the UK government has barred Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer from entering the United Kingdom to address events organised by the EDL (English Defence Lesage). The EDL is a British far-right movement that is particularly anti-Muslim, considering Muslims a threat

Journalism

Academics Finally Take Note of Islamophobia

For a number of years, we have been taking academics to task for not doing enough to tackle rising Islamophobia. Academic research makes it way into public policy sooner or later, and a certain paralysis had descended upon the academic community after the Iraq

Islamophobia

Robert Fisk on Anonymous Internet Cowards like David Toube

Robert Fisk has rightly lashed out at the scourge of the Internet – extremist anonymous people with too much time writing and saying things they would not otherwise say in real life. He writes, Now in the old days, when someone stuffed something abusive in

Islamophobia

What Happened to Canada?

Chris Hedges writes on truth-out.org, on Monday 30 January 2012: **What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. Funding

Islamophobia

Israeli Desperation in Courting European Far-right

Diplomats don’t make many mistakes. Certainly not mistakes like attending a reception for 20 minutes and posing for pictures and also giving positive comments. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is keeping them honest. But what is afoot here? Let us take a look. Marine

Journalism

Free Speech Update: Cartoons can be Censored

So, the Chicago Tribune censors the political cartoon strip Doonesbury. Here is what the editor had to say: To be sure, “Doonesbury” is a satirical cartoon, but the remarks are serious enough that we cannot publish the strip without more information, context and a

documentary

How Islamophobia Works - a Fascinating Report

Following a six-month long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress released a 130-page report today which reveals that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the past decade have helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim hate in America. The authors — Wajahat

minorities

Reality Check about Christians in Pakistan

Listening to the commercial media in Western countries, one can be forgiven for thinking that in countries like Iraq or Pakistan, there is a Klashinkov-toting Muslim around every corner hunting down Christians and other non-Muslims. On my last trip to Pakistan, I stayed in

moderates

The Myth of Moderation

The Washington Post published a poll-induced barely comprehensible laundry list of what a ‘moderate’ Muslim should be. Let us pick it apart one by one. With apologies to the author of the said piece, Qasim Rashid, we may not have understood what you were

Islamophobia

Did Naseem Mahdi actually make the hearing?

I had been writing for a long time that the multi-million-dollar campaign in the US by the Ahmadiyya cult was just a ploy to try to get a seat on Representative King’s hearings on ‘home-grown radicalization’. According to this story, he says that

Islamophobia

Education or Propganda: Bus Ads

Buses are increasingly becoming a target of propaganda group ads. Can we please fund our metropolitan buses a bit more so that they do not have to take ads from such groups? On one hand, if channels for relaying factual information to the masses

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