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George Bush has been a previous winner of the Islamophobe awards

THE Islamic Human Rights Commission  has announced the return of the Islamophobia awards.
The spoof awards are the result of ordinary people world-wide nominating and then voting for a list of people by region whom they believe to be the worst perpetrators of Islamophobia in [...]

October 13th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

An Inter Press Service piece (9/24/08) on the U.S.-press-distributed anti-Muslim video Obsession gives kudos to
major metropolitan newspapers solicited to insert the paid advertisement into their product [that] have refused to do so…. “Despite the perilous state of American newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch advertising department took an ethical stand and refused to distribute the DVD [...]

October 13th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

By NINA BERNSTEIN
The  death last year of Boubacar Bah, a Guinean tailor held in a New Jersey jail for overstaying his visa, showed immigration detention to be one of the most secretive corners of American life. But now Mr. Bah’s story is being retold in an unusually public way: in an online video game.

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October 8th, 2008 | Category: Boubacar Bah, Death in Custody, Detainee Abuse, Islamophobia | Leave a comment

After covering the campaign to distribute 28 million DVDs of the anti-Muslim documentary, Obsession, to sway voters to vote Republican in crucial swing states, I’ve decided to file an IRS complaint (form 13909) against the Clarion Fund, which produced the film and distributed it.

There are too many subterfuges involved in the production of this film [...]

October 7th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

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October 7th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

Senders of Islam movie tied to Jewish charity | Sept. 26, story
Hate propaganda deserves to be condemned Kudos to Meg Laughlin of the St. Petersburg Times for her investigative reporting exposing the connection between a Jewish charity in Israel and the massive distribution of the Obsession DVD about radical Islam’s war with the [...]

October 7th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

Defining Turkey as not only a geographical but also a cultural, social and political bridge, Erdogan said that Turkey was therefore an important country for the Alliance of Civilizations Initiative.
The Turkish prime minister said on Monday that countries should express their peace and justice demand.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that countries [...]

September 18th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

by Abdus Sattar Ghazali

Seven years after 9/11, Muslims in America remained at the receiving end with assault on their civil rights and their faith in the name of “war on terror.” Muslims are the prime targets of the post 9/11 reconfiguration of American laws, policies, and priorities. Defending civil rights remains the single most [...]

September 12th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

By John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed
What do the world’s one billion Muslims really think? What does the silent majority of Muslims want for their lives, and in their politics? Why are the aspirations of the vast majority of Muslims in direct contrast to most of the world’s impressions of Muslims?
In this five-part series, carried every [...]

September 6th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net
In the face of a seemingly unending wave of fake encounters, killings and arrests of innocent Muslims across the country falsely accused by the police of being ‘terrorists’, a three-day Peoples’ Tribunal was recently held in Hyderabad on ‘Atrocities Committed Against Minorities in the Name of Fighting Terrorism’.
Organised by three noted Delhi-based [...]

August 31st, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia, War, war on terror | Leave a comment

The Only Good Muslim is the Anti-Muslim
 
For some, Barack Obama’s stature as a man of the left has fallen precipitously, like late autumn leaves shed by branches bowing to the will of winter.
Disappointment has often been self-inflicted. Supporters have dipped their pens deeply into the inkwell of Obama’s inspiring story and written their own lines [...]

August 29th, 2008 | Category: Election 2008, Islamophobia | Leave a comment

Media organisations will clash with Greater Manchester Police in court this week over moves to force them to hand over ‘evidence’
Andrew Norfolk

He was the poster boy for jihadist extremism who become one of its most vocal opponents, meeting a government minister and being offered Home Office funding to support his deradicalisation work among [...]

August 24th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia, UK Lies, UK Paranioa | Leave a comment

Dr. Al-Hayat
America, Iran and the six Gulf countries remind me of two wolves and six sheep that met to consider the dinner menu.
As I have said time after time, if they agree, they do it at our expense, and if they fight, we pay the price. As a matter of fact, this  is the opinion [...]

July 26th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

With more than 55 million items, the Library’s Manuscript Division contains the papers of 23 presidents, from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. In this article, Manuscript Division Chief James Hutson draws upon the papers of Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other primary documents to discuss the relationship of Islam to the new nation.
Many Muslims feel unwelcome [...]

July 21st, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

By Ali Moosavi - The Arab American News
The events of Sept. 11 have to be seen in two ways — as the predictable and inevitable consequence of our unchecked imperial policies and as the growth of Islamism as the only popular alternative to the status quo. The irony is that these aren’t mutually exclusive forces; [...]

July 20th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia, Israel, Lies and War Crimes of the US Government, War | Leave a comment

Moazzam Begg
During my years of incarceration at Bagram and Guantánamo Bay, I was interrogated well over 300 times. One of those interrogations, by the CIA, in my third year of US captivity, I still recall with a sense of amusement. The agent insisted on repeating the word ‘terrorist’ when referring to me. Nothing new, I [...]

July 17th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

By Huma Yusuf
Is anyone else feeling an uncanny sense of deja vu? It seems as if political actors across the globe conspired last week to remind us that history does in fact repeat itself. Looking back at events that have recently unfolded, it becomes clear that the powers that [...]

July 17th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia, Racial Profiling | Leave a comment

Going through legal channels to study in America doesn’t protect young people from racism.

By Edwin Okong’o, New American Media.
As a Muslim male of Somali descent living in post-September 11 United States, Mustafa Jumale knew that he risked harassment from law enforcement officers and racism from some Americans. Although he had never experienced [...]

July 16th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia, Racism | Leave a comment

..Now why does this not surprise me?  Check out some of the names… Sen. Edward Kennedy?   I think my hero Pogo said it best when he said, “We have met the enemy - and he is us!”
By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. watch list of terrorism suspects has passed 1 million records, corresponding to [...]

July 15th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Comments (1)

As we enter the Orwellian Age…………………..
Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
The eye of tech-artist Benjamin Males’ custom-made surveillance camera is engineered for a black and white world.
Black and white people, that is.
Males, 25, a mechanical engineer who recently graduated with a master’s degree from London’s Royal College of Art, wrote the software for a camera that [...]

July 14th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia, Racial Profiling | Leave a comment

Just days after the MoD has to pay out millions to the father of a man UK soldiers beat to death, fresh claims of abuse emerge
By Andrew Johnson

The IoS has pixellated this image of the boy making the complaint because he is consumed by shame, and lives in fear of retribution from [...]

July 13th, 2008 | Category: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Abuse, Detainee Abuse, Iraq, Islamophobia, Minor, war crimes | Leave a comment

WASHINGTON - Civil liberty and immigrant groups are raising red flags against the Justice Department, fearing that ethnic profiling could become institutionalized.
The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on terrorist profiles that could single out racial and ethnic groups.
Currently, FBI agents need specific [...]

July 12th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

Dawud Walid
Now that Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have become the presumptive presidential nominees for the Republicans and Democrats, they should address how all bigotry, including Islamophobia, hurts America.
The need to address this issue is urgent given the spike in anti-Muslim rhetoric and fear-mongering during the presidential campaign. Former GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee [...]

July 8th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment

When a tabloid newspaper reports that a ‘Muslim hate mob’ is daubing abuse, can we believe them?
By Peter Oborne

On the morning of 7 October 2006 The Sun newspaper splashed a dramatic story across its front page. The story – billed as exclusive – concerned a callous and cynical crime committed by Muslims. A [...]

July 8th, 2008 | Category: Islamophobia | Leave a comment