Islamophobia
Settlement will prevent illegal NYPD surveillance of Muslims
By Lauren Markoe — April 5, 2018
(AP) — 'Today's settlement sends a message to all law enforcement: Simply being Muslim is not a basis for surveillance,' said Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates, a legal advocacy and educational organization.
Legal scholar Khaled Beydoun says it’s time to finally define Islamophobia
By Aysha Khan — April 2, 2018
(RNS) — Khaled Beydoun develops a framework for understanding Islamophobia through his examinations of its ties to American policy.
The worst lesson parents can teach
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 20, 2018
(RNS) — Children are not born hating (or, for that matter, loving or tolerating). Someone has to teach them, either hatred or compassion.
Why did former sheriff’s deputy allegedly try to bomb a Minnesota mosque?
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 15, 2018
CLARENCE, Ill. (AP) — A former sheriff's deputy and purported ringleader in the bombing of a Minnesota mosque emerges in court documents as a sometimes-threatening figure with anti-government views who also wrote books and attracted others into his shadowy group.
Attention turns to affiliations of mosque-bombing suspects
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 14, 2018
CHICAGO (AP) — Last year, three men allegedly chose to travel some 500 miles (805 kilometers) from a rural farming town in central Illinois to bomb a mosque in suburban Minneapolis. Why? One suspect reportedly said they hoped to scare Muslims into leaving the U.S.
This Muslim artist is giving Valentine’s Day a subversive twist
By Aysha Khan — February 14, 2018
(RNS) — In their sixth year, Taz Ahmed's satirical Valentine's Day cards point the arrow at the White House.
Man who drove van into Muslims in London convicted of murder
By Jerome Socolovsky — February 1, 2018
LONDON (AP) — A jury at London's Woolwich Crown Court deliberated for just an hour before finding 48-year-old Darren Osborne guilty of the June 2017 attack in the city's Finsbury Park neighborhood.
German nationalist politician converts to Islam, quits post
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 24, 2018
BERLIN (AP) — A longtime member of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party has resigned his post on its regional leadership after converting to Islam.
FACT CHECK: Anti-Muslim videos misrepresent what happened
By Calvin Woodward — November 30, 2017
(AP) — President Trump's spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, suggested the veracity of the videos wasn't a high priority amid concern over national security and strong borders.
Europe’s Muslim population growing — but won’t be a majority anytime soon
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 29, 2017
(RNS) — Even if there were no more migration to Europe — no immigrants, no refugees — the percentage of Muslims in those countries still would rise during the next three decades, according to a new Pew Research Center study.
Muslim leaders speak out against Trump’s inflammatory retweets
By Sharon Samber — November 29, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Americans are 'shocked but not surprised' by the president’s actions, said the Council on American-Islamic Relations' national executive director, Nihad Awad.
Trump’s words — and tweets — are dangerous to the very ideals of our nation
By Salam Al-Marayati — November 29, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The president of the United States is setting policy and making public statements using fallacious and incendiary ideas from extremist and hate-driven sources.
Trump retweets videos critical of Muslims
By Lauren Markoe — November 29, 2017
(AP) — The videos were originally tweeted by the deputy leader of an anti-immigrant British fringe group who has been charged with religiously aggravated harassment.
Muslims in NJ city fear another backlash after latest attack
By Wayne Parry — November 3, 2017
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — 'People here feel they will be blamed as a religion and as a people. Because this guy was a Muslim, Muslims will be blamed anywhere and everywhere,' said Imam Mohammad Qatanani, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, the region's most influential mosque.
Religious literacy can fix the faulty foundation beneath Trump’s Muslim ban
By Maha Elgenaidi — October 23, 2017
(RNS) — The organization I lead, Islamic Networks Group, has ample experience to show that increased religious literacy at all levels of society can weaken the foundation that supports discriminatory intent before it becomes policy.
