#islamophobia

#islamophobia

Every year on Remembrance Day, the bishop of London leads a public Christian act of lamentation in the open air, accompanied by hymns, Bible readings, and prayers in the name of Jesus Christ.

An anti-Muslim protest outside the home of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on March 7 was disrupted when football-sized explosive devices were thrown into the crowd, allegedly by two teenagers. Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were identified by Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch as the men who threw the devices into the crowd.

Having a white nationalist coming to rabble-rouse and flare anti-Muslim sentiment in New York during the holiest month of the year for Muslims is more than outlandish. But also, we're talking about a white supremacist who's looking for people to respond to them in this way.

New York is under foreign occupation. There's really no other way to put it. Does this administration have one single actual American in it? Sarsour, a hijabi woman and pro-Palestinian activist, was born in Brooklyn and is an American citizen.

"[Iranians] want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and they'd like to take us out as well. We're the Great Satan in their analogy and their misguided religion, and there is no way to appease them. And in defiance of every president since Jimmy Carter, the Iranian regime has pursued the means to acquire a nuclear weapon, so they could take that madness and that ideology to its full conclusion."

Home Office guidance says mosques should apply for security measures provided for free by the Home Office if they have experienced or feel vulnerable to hate crime, of if there has been hate crime in the area towards other places of worship or their congregants. However, it advises applicants to provide detailed evidence of incidents, such as graffiti, or police reports, saying that applications that do not include strong evidence are unlikely to be successful.

Democrats are calling for the censure or even resignation of Randy Fine, a Florida congressman known for his inflammatory rhetoric, after he wrote particularly Islamophobic social media post last weekend. But other than one retiring Republican Congressman, the GOP has largely been silent on the matter. On Sunday, Fine wrote a post on X indicating that he preferred dogs to Muslims. "If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one," he said.

The firestorm began on Sunday when Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) responded to a sarcastic social media post by Palestinian American activist Nerdeen Kiswani, who jokingly suggested that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's election meant that "NYC is coming to Islam," and it was time to consider banning dogs as pets because "like we've said all along, they are unclean." "If they force us to choose," Fine wrote, "the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one."

If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,

I mean I don't write notes or anything like that. I always just go with what I've been thinking about. I'm just so offended by it. And what I should have said-which I think all the time is: How is hating all Muslims better than hating all Jews? And the answer, obviously, is it's not. And does that mean hating their children? Do we have to hate their children? I guess we do? Their ancestors, their grandchildren? The whole thing is disgusting.

Threats and hate speech against Muslim Australians have surged in the wake of the Bondi beach attack, with one mosque receiving dozens of offensive phone calls and reports of people being targeted in the street. As Australia's Jewish community deals with trauma from the attack that killed 15 people at a Hanukah event, religious leaders say societal and political divisions has led to other groups being targeted by hatred.

To survive a school shooting is traumatic enough, but to then face a nationwide racist smear campaign that falsely accuses you of being the murderer is even worse. That was the fate of Mustapha Kharbouch, a queer Palestinian student at Brown University. While mourning his fellow students, Kharbouch found himself confronting false accusations. Across social media, attempts by the university to protect his privacy were painted as proof of guilt.

Some members have even floated raising the threshold for censure - a rebuke that is supposed to carry significant weight but has been watered down by its growing use in recent years. Fine's effort would almost certainly fail because expulsion requires a two-thirds vote in the House. If all Republicans vote to expel Omar, roughly 85 Democrats would need to join them.

In response to the horrific antisemitic terror attack in Sydney, Australia, Paladino wrote on Sunday that the world is experiencing a global jihad and argued that governments should begin expelling Muslims or imposing severe sanctions on them within Western countries. She also called for the development of a legal framework for denaturalization, warning of another Sept. 11-style attack.