Islamophobia Archives

23Mar

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Europe

Islamophobia, war and mass murder in New Zealand

NOVANEWS By Party for Socialism and Liberation ANSWER protest outside Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. September, 2016. ANSWER photo. We in the Party for Socialism and Liberation express our outrage at the massacre at two mosques in New Zealand on March 15, carried out by a self-described fascist. We wish to convey our deepest sympathy and solidarity with the families of the 49 people killed and many more wounded in this horrific attack. We hold not only the mass murderer (whose name we will not amplify by repeating) responsible for this latest atrocity, but also the extreme racist/fascist networks in which he has long been an active participant. He is no “lone wolf,” but instead a part of a global neo-Nazi movement that is protected by and often linked to the police and military in...

14Feb

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Literature, Politics

Islamophobia and the “Negative Media Portrayal of Muslims”

NOVANEWS An Exposition of Sufism, A Critique of the Alleged "Clash of Civilizations" By Dr. Belinda F. Espiritu Global Research Originally published on Global Research in April 2015 There is a current obsession in mainstream media and academic discourse pertaining to Islam and the West. This current obsession is tinged with negative signifiers with the global media’s predominantly negative portrayal of Islam and Muslims, depicting Muslims generally as violent, fanatical, bigoted, or as extremists and terrorists. Islamophobia, fear of Islam and Muslims, has intensified with the 9/11 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, the Taliban’s fundamentalist proscriptions and restrictions in Afghanistan, the Charlie Hebdo attack in France, and the emergence of the self proclaim...

11Oct

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Politics, ZIO-NAZI

The Centre for I$raHell and Jewish Affairs: Stoking Islamophobia and Defending Racism

NOVANEWS By Yves Engler | Dissident Voice Would a farmer ask a fox to help design a security system for her free-range chickens? A group that stokes Islamophobia and defends an explicitly supremacist organization shouldn’t be part of a Public Consultation on Systemic Discrimination and Racism in Québec. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) should be removed from the “list of selected organizations” for this important initiative. While groups participating in the just launched consultation are supposed to “develop concrete proposals to combat systemic discrimination and racism”, last summer CIJA campaigned aggressively against a Green Party of Canada resolution calling on the Canada Revenue Agency to revoke the charitable status of an explicitly racist organization. The Green...

4Feb

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USA

International Travel to Banned Muslim Countries: US Immigration Halts Former Prime Minister of Norway at Airport

NOVANEWS By Nina Berglund News in English Former Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, photographed here after attending the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo in December, was stopped by US immigration officials when he landed in the US on Wednesday. They questioned him for an hour about a stamp in his diplomatic passport showing that he’d been in Iran. PHOTO: NRK screen grab Norway’s national commercial television channel TV2 reported Thursday night that Bondevik had traveled to the US to attend the annual prayer breakfast involving various religions that’s traditionally held after the inauguration of a new US president. Bondevik is an ordained minister and former leader of the Christian Democrats party, and has served both as Norway’s foreign minister and prime minister. H...

4Feb

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Canada

War and Islamophobia: The Attack on the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City

NOVANEWS By Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War The tragic Jan. 30th attack on worshippers at a Quebec City mosque has gripped all of Canada. Thousands of decent Canadians, from all walks of life, have taken it upon themselves to demonstrate their outrage at this heinous crime, and to show solidarity with muslim Canadians. We congratulate the organizers of the well-attended and quickly-organized Hamilton demonstration, and hope that we can work together as a community to end the islamophobia that led to the criminal attack in Quebec. We wish that we could say we are surprised at the Jan. 30 incident. However, like many other organizations, the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War has been warning, for the past fifteen years, about the dangers posed to our society by the permane...

27Jan

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Human Rights, USA

Non-Muslims Carried Out More than 90% of All Terrorist Attacks in America

NOVANEWS By Washington's Blog This article was first published May 1, 2013. Terrorism Is a Real Threat … But the Threat to the U.S. from Muslim Terrorists Has Been Exaggerated An FBI report shows that only a small percentage of terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil between 1980 and 2005 were perpetrated by Muslims. Princeton University’s Loon Watch compiled the following chart from the FBI’s data: Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil by Group, From 1980 to 2005, According to FBI Database According to this data, there were more Jewish acts of terrorism within the United States than Islamic (7% vs 6%). These radical Jews committed acts of terrorism in the name of their religion. These were not terrorists who happened to be Jews; rather, they were extremist Jews who commit...

17Dec

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Campaigns, Europe, USA

Facing Trial for Hate Speech, Islamophobic Dutch Politician Hopes to Ride Trump’s Tide

NOVANEWS By Thomas J. Scott, Truthout Geert Wilders, founder and leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom, during day two of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 19, 2016. (Photo: Damon Winter / The New York Times) Dutch politician Geert Wilders -- a poster boy for promoting Islamophobia in Europe and the United States -- has been on trial for alleged hate speech against Moroccans since October 31. The Dutch court is expected to deliver its verdict tomorrow. The trial concerns a 2014 political rally at which Wilders asked the audience whether they wanted "more or fewer Moroccans in this city [The Hague] and in the Netherlands." When the crowd started chanting, "Fewer, fewer!" Wilders replied, "Well, we'll arrange that, then." As a result of his comments, thou...