Islamophobia

There is often an uncomfortable unevenness in contemporary Muslim moral courage. Western Muslim leaders and organizations have shown admirable clarity in confronting the crimes of Empire and Zionism. The more difficult test comes when the same principles implicate governments, institutions,...

Three recent elections in Germany have shocked the German political caste Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an editor of BRAVE NEW EUROPE Photo: Wikimedia Commons Following a massive victory in the state election...

The Islamophobia of the European centre-right is now pretty much identical to that of the far-right, and both want to cut any funding for campaigning against anti-Muslim racism. Farid Hafez is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Racism(s) at the University of...

While Germany’s far-right won its best election results since the Second World War, politicians continued accusing anti-Zionist Jews of antisemitism Fleur Hargreaves is a British-Jewish writer and graduate of English Literature at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Cross-posted from Middle East Eye The hostages held...

As a kid, I knew three things about the guy who owned my favorite NFL team. He was short, from Ohio, and he was a good owner because he spent money. After 40 years of further review, that stands as...

The major advance of the Houthis in Western Yemen and potential control of a key Red Sea chokepoint represents a significant shift in the balance of power which will affect not just the Yemen civil war but the Iran war...

An AfD election poster with the message: “Youth come to us”, reminiscent of both Nazi and Communist propaganda. By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sep 14 2026 (IPS) During summer months there is a certain news drought. Nevertheless, this year social media has been...

The 11th of September, 2026, marks a quarter-century since the “9/11” attacks that killed three thousand Americans and set into motion a generation of the “Global War on Terror”. The anniversary will no doubt bring with it the very human...

A quarter-century after Sept. 11, America is commemorating the day with a combination of reverence, Islamophobia and jingoism. But there is another current running through the mix of emotions: anger over a number of unanswered questions about the attacks, their...

--- While it is somewhat cliche to say that the “whole world changed” after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, it does not detract from the reality of the statement. In numerous tangible ways, the culture, security, and...

“The fixation on El-Sayed’s faith is part of a growing embrace of open Islamophobia by some Republicans,” The Washington Post reported. Political cartoons commenting on Michigan’s 2026 U.S. Senate race have been dominated by a torrent of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism...

Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the United States, and yet Muslim political candidates are enjoying a banner year. Zohran Mamdani was elected the first Muslim mayor of New York City in 2025. This year, Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic...

By: Toh Han Shih Foreign investment from countries including China is driving the rapid growth of Uzbekistan’s economy, but the Central Asian country does not intend to be a doormat for the US and China to fight over its abundant supply...

When President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on August 17 to celebrate the signing of the Mecca (or Makkah) Joint Defense Agreement, his tone was effusive: Very happy to see that Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan have recently, and finally,...

This delightful indie film portrays a Pakistan-American Muslim boy making the difficult transition from Islamic school to public high school. Mustache , a film written and directed by Imran J. Khan, was released on VOD (available to rent or buy) on...

This delightful indie film portrays a Pakistan-American Muslim boy making the difficult transition from Islamic school to public high school. Mustache , a film written and directed by Imran J. Khan, was released on VOD (available to rent or buy) on...

The Documenting Oppression against Muslims (DOAM) organization has charted a series of anti-Muslim hate crimes, harassment, and assaults over the summer of 2026 in the United States, Britain, Canada, Ireland, Italy, and Belgium. The ten weeks since the end of...

The Documenting Oppression against Muslims (DOAM) organization has charted a series of anti-Muslim hate crimes, harassment, and assaults over the summer of 2026 in the United States, Britain, Canada, Ireland, Italy, and Belgium. The ten weeks since the end of...

Amid a deepening crackdown on Palestine solidarity in the country, a senior member of the British parliament is leading a campaign to have a popular activist and Muslim scholar arrested. Alicia Kearns, the Shadow Minister for Home Affairs has called...

Introduction “Why are Muslim women becoming feminists?” is the (not so) new “why are Muslim youth becoming radicalized?” sentiment… not amongst non-Muslims fearing the paths of angry young Muslims questioning Western socio-political hegemony, but amongst Muslims who are convinced that Muslim...

Introduction “Why are Muslim women becoming feminists?” is the (not so) new “why are Muslim youth becoming radicalized?” sentiment… not amongst non-Muslims fearing the paths of angry young Muslims questioning Western socio-political hegemony, but amongst Muslims who are convinced that Muslim...

In September 2025, Donald Trump designated “antifa” a domestic terror organization. Last month, his administration went one step further by declaring that the “extreme left” had developed the antifa network into a global threat. Marco Rubio announced at a press...

Introduction “Why are Muslim women becoming feminists?” is the (not so) new “why are Muslim youth becoming radicalized?” sentiment… not amongst non-Muslims fearing the paths of angry young Muslims questioning Western socio-political hegemony, but amongst Muslims who are convinced that Muslim...

Robert Kagan surprised some people. One of America’s most influential hawks condemned the Trump administration’s botched war in Iran, suggesting in The Atlantic in March that U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a catalyst of, rather than a...

Anti-FGM activists protests outside the National Assembly in Banjul, The Gambia, on 18 March 2024, as lawmakers discuss a bill seeking to lift the ban on FGM. Credit: by Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug 3 2026 (IPS) Last August,...

The following story is co-published with Tim Shorrock’s Substack newsletter, Empire Blues . When the flamboyant neoconservative R. James Woolsey passed away last week at the age of 84, The Washington Post and its fellow travelers in corporate media mourned him...

My former Georgetown professor, John Esposito, passed away on July 15, 2026, just as the military campaign between the U.S. and Iran reignited in what is becoming America’s “Third Gulf War.” It was America’s first Gulf War in 1991 that led...

There are scholars who interpret the world, scholars who flatter it, and scholars who quietly make it less cruel. John L. Esposito belonged emphatically to the third category. His passing deprives us not merely of a distinguished academic, but of...

By: Kalimullah Hassan As widely expected, Malaysia’s Barisan Nasional la st weekend swept to a resounding victory in elections in the populous southern state of Johor across the strait from Singapore, taking 48 of 56 seats and leaving its rival, Anwar...

“Why are Muslim women becoming feminists?” is the (not so) new “why are Muslim youth becoming radicalized?” sentiment… not amongst non-Muslims fearing the paths of angry young Muslims questioning Western socio-political hegemony, but amongst Muslims who are convinced that Muslim...

The West has killed its own soul and is not even aware of it Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Last week, we looked at some of the more practical and structural reasons for the increasing loss of western...

Ali Abunimah Returns to Zurich to Give the Talk That Got Him Arrested Esad Širbegović is a writer and analyst based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is also a member of the International Expert Team at the Institute for Research of Genocide...

History is terrifyingly contingent, and what seems obvious now was not always obvious then: nor, indeed, was it inevitable Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Joseph Ducreux : Self-portrait, called the Surprise Photo is in...

Sun’s out, and while some people are ready for (halal) pool parties, some of us just want to pick up a good book or ten. And with Muharram having just begun, it’s important for us not to get caught up...

From the moment that the first ayah of the Qur’an was revealed – “Iqra!” – reading has been a foundational part of the Islamic tradition. The Qur’an was the first book established by the Muslim community, heralding the beginning of...

Senegal is navigating a major political crisis following President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s dismissal May 22 of his longtime ally and prime minister, Ousmane Sonko. The power struggle between the former allies raises significantly the risk of the West African state...

Something strange happened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival: A number of French films were greeted with loud boos and cries of “Fascist!” The audiences were not booing the films themselves, or castigating the films’ directors. Rather, they were responding...

Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences. In the United States, but also...

“Democracy” is a slogan, a value-judgement more than it is a description, and a term of praise and abuse in political debates more than a defined programme. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Licensed under the...

The Islamic Society of San Diego Tragedy struck the Muslim community of San Diego in a murderous attack by a pair of armed teenagers who killed three people, including a security guard, before shooting themselves at a mosque on 18...

Dr. Mansoor Malik is a professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins. For most of his career, his work has been what you’d expect from a clinician-educator at a major academic medical center: healthcare worker wellbeing, peer support programs, minority physician...

A year after their brief war in 2025, both India and Pakistan are revving up their war frenzy. The drums of victory are being beaten with nationalistic zeal on both sides. The two nations teem with jingoism, a sense of...

Germany’s federal system of government makes the country’s politics seem so complicated that most people outside Germany give up trying to understand it. At the federal level, there is the parliament (the Bundestag), a ceremonial president and a chancellor. At...

The UK government used fake organisations and forged documents to disrupt its enemies and protect its interests amid the Cold War, declassified files show. The information comes in a series of highly sensitive files which were released to the...

As a retired Metropolitan police detective, I’m alarmed that senior officers might ban Palestine marches in central London in the wake of the Golders Green stabbings. Every march I have attended as a citizen has been nothing but peaceful....

Chairman of the American Conservative Union and former White House Director Matthew Schlapp recently offered a bit of illustrative wit. When asked about the 160 Iranian schoolgirls killed in an airstrike that a Pentagon probe and international human rights...

The Muslim Association of Canada has welcomed an expert’s review into the government revenue agency’s auditing practices, which found serious deficiencies that carried risks of “capturing innocent activity through associational connections.” The review comes after the Canadian Revenue Agency itself...