Islamophobia

Anti-Muslim bigotry aids Islamist terrorists

Anti-Muslim bigotry aids Islamist terrorists David Petraeus, The Washington Post  13 May 2016  Image: Iraqi Kurdish female fighters near the front line of the fight against Islamic State militants in Nawaran, Iraq, on April 20. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters) Almost 15 years after the 9/11 attacks, and five years since the killing of the chief architect of those attacks, the United States and the world face a resurgent threat from terrorism. This stark

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Blaming Policy, Not Islam, for Belgium’s Radicalized Youth

Blaming Policy, Not Islam, for Belgium’s Radicalized Youth Steven Erlanger, The New York Times 07 April 2016 Image: The Schaerbeek neighborhood in Brussels. Salah Abdeslam, the Islamic State recruit who participated in the Paris terror attacks, sought refuge in the neighborhood for weeks. CreditDaniel Berehulak for The New York Times BRUSSELS — Yves Goldstein makes no excuses for Belgium’s failure to find Salah Abdeslam and the other Islamic

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Intelligence Report: Extremist Groups Expanded in 2015

SPLC's Intelligence Report: Amid Year of Lethal Violence, Extremist Groups Expanded Ranks in 2015 Intelligence Report 17 February 2016   The number of extremist groups operating in the United States grew in 2015 – a year awash in deadly extremist violence and hateful rhetoric from mainstream political figures, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual census of hate groups and other extremist organizations. The report, contained

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After Paris Attacks: Anti-Muslim hatred rises

Anti-Muslim hatred ratcheted up sharply after the Islamic State attacks in Paris. Then came San Bernardino and Donald Trump Leah Nelson, Intelligence Report 17 February 17 2016 Standing with President Francois Hollande of France 11 days after Islamic State terrorists slaughtered 130 people and injured more than 350 others in three coordinated attacks in Paris, President Barack Obama told Americans to refuse to give in to fear. “There have been

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2016: The Year in Hate and Extremism

 The Year in Hate and Extremism The number of hate and antigovernment ‘Patriot’ groups grew last year, and terrorist attacks and radical plots proliferated. Mark Potok, Intelligence Report 17 February 2016     Charleston. Chattanooga. Colorado Springs. In these towns and dozens of other communities around the nation, 2015 was a year marked by extraordinary violence from domestic extremists — a year of living dangerously. Antigovernment

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SPLC Statement on Donald Trump’s Call to Ban Muslims from Entering US

SPLC Statement on Donald Trump's Call to Ban Muslims from Entering US Heidi Beirich, Southern Poverty Law Center 8 December 2015   Donald Trump’s call for a 'total and complete shutdown' of Muslims entering the United States is just the latest example of the extreme, anti-Muslim rhetoric that has reached a fever pitch this year. Trump relies on a debunked poll by the Center for Security Policy, headed by conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney. This

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U.S. Update: Boston Muslims Struggle to Wrest Image of Islam from Terrorists

Boston Muslims Struggle to Wrest Image of Islam from Terrorists Scott Shane, The New York Times 15 June 2015 BOSTON — Yusufi Vali was hunched over his computer at this city’s biggest mosque, where he is executive director, when the first phone call came. The police had killed a man a few miles away. Soon there were reports that the man was a Muslim who had been under investigation for terrorism. And so the news media inquiries began. More than

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Death Stalks Muslims as Myanmar Cuts Off Aid

Death Stalks Muslims as Myanmar Cuts Off Aid New York Times 3 May 2014 By Jane Perlez SITTWE, Myanmar — By the time the baby girl was brought to the makeshift pharmacy, her chest was heaving, her temperature soaring. The supply of oxygen that might have helped was now off limits, in a Doctors Without Borders clinic shut down by the government in February. A hospital visit was out of the question; admission for Rohingya Muslims, a long-persecuted

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Links to Islamophobia Resources

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DEFINING "ISLAMOPHOBIA" By The Center for Race and Gender UC, Berkeley   The term "Islamophobia" was first introduced as a concept in a 1991 Runnymede Trust Report and defined as "unfounded hostility towards Muslims, and therefore fear or dislike of all or most Muslims." The term was coined in the context of Muslims in the

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Articles

Islamophobia ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Arab Media Forum to discuss ‘Islamophobia: Is media doing enough to reverse perceptions?’ By Staff, Emirates 24/7 17 April 2013   Dubai Press Club, organisers of the Arab Media Forum, today announced details of a key session that will be presented during the 12th Arab Media Forum, the region’s largest media

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