anti-Muslim bias
Top Indian court intervenes in hate speeches against Muslims
By Ashok Sharma — January 12, 2022
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Wednesday said it will take up a petition seeking prosecution of several saffron-robed Hindu religious leaders for allegedly making highly provocative speeches against Muslims at a closed-door meeting last month. Three Supreme Court judges said they were issuing a notice to the Uttarakhand state government that they […]
I was put up for ‘auction’ by Hindu extremists in India
By Amina Kausar — January 6, 2022
(RNS) — Indian Muslim women have been fighting the misogyny of Hindu extremism for years.
After Lauren Boebert’s Islamophobic standup, here’s the apology that was missing
By Mark Silk — November 30, 2021
(RNS) — Boebert refused Ilhan Omar’s request to apologize to her publicly.
Empowering Muslims to tell their own stories
By Simran Jeet Singh — November 9, 2021
(RNS) — A newly funded fellowship for Muslim artists puts power into the hands of Muslim creatives.
‘King of the World’ podcast examines good and bad of Muslim American life after 9/11
By Joseph Hammond — September 21, 2021
(RNS) — The show is aimed at Muslims who were in their early 20s and late teens in 2001 and suddenly found their Islamic identity thrust upon them by the attention paid to Muslims after the attacks.
Two decades after 9/11, Muslim Americans still fighting bias
By Luis Andres Henao, Mariam Fam, and Deepti Hajela — September 7, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — As young American Muslims grew up under the shadow of 9/11, they faced hostility and surveillance, mistrust and suspicion, questions about their Muslim faith and doubts over their Americanness.
20 years after the first Taliban regime, will we again target people based on how they look?
By Simran Jeet Singh — August 18, 2021
(RNS) — Have we learned anything about our own bigotry and extremism, and the rights of religious minorities?
Why is Islamophobia wrong at home and acceptable against Palestinians?
By Omar Suleiman — June 24, 2021
(RNS) — So many who condemn bigotry against Muslims have a blind spot when it comes to Palestinians.
Suit seeks to limit anti-Muslim speech on Facebook but roots of Islamophobia run far deeper
By Caleb Elfenbein — May 25, 2021
(The Conversation) — A civil rights group is suing Facebook for its failure to stop the spread of anti-Muslim hate speech on the platform.
Report details discrimination faced by American Muslims
By Joseph Hammond — April 29, 2021
(RNS) — The report, titled ‘Resilience in the Face of Hate: Civil Rights Report 2021,’ found a 9% increase in complaints in 2020, even as hate crimes fell by 20%.
Across Africa, hijab in schools divides Christians and Muslims
By Fredrick Nzwili — March 15, 2021
(RNS) — Some religious experts believe hijab should be banned from schools to create a learning environment free of religious influences.
End of religious headwear rule says athletes are more than their uniforms
By Dilshad Ali — February 22, 2021
(RNS) — Why should Muslims need permission to wear a hijab, or anyone for that matter, whatever their religious observance?
One year on, Muslim women reflect on wearing the niqab in a mask-wearing world
By Anna Piela — February 3, 2021
(The Conversation) — Women reported decreased levels of the kinds of prejudice they experienced before the pandemic.
Five years later, Larycia Hawkins’ canceling foreshadowed evangelicals under Trump
By Linda Midgett — December 16, 2020
(RNS) — In a 2015 Facebook post, the Wheaton professor announced her intent to wear a hijab as an act of ‘embodied solidarity’ with Muslim women, and lost nearly everything.
Across America, Muslims are becoming a fixture on the disaster relief landscape
By Aysha Khan — November 9, 2020
(RNS) — Muslim American philanthropies are increasingly turning their volunteer efforts to emergency relief projects in the U.S.
