The Guardian’s Riazat Butt wrties about her sister’s experience with anti-Muslim abuse.
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Johann Hari discusses child brides in Yemen and the UK, and also has a post which is highly critical of Islamophobia Watch.
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The Scum newspaper has been forced to apologise to a Muslim bus driver over allegations he made passengers wait while he prayed.
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20 Muslim graves were desecrated in Scunthorpe last week.
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Listen from the BBC World Service.
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Related: A post from Aziz on this story
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The Why Islam? campaign in New York runs into trouble.
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Fatemeh
Azeem Khan dishes it out to Rep. Peter King.
SNAP!
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luckyfatima
Did any of you catch the episode of Tony in Saudi? As usual the show had sensational segments in which he ate the “weird stuff” that average Joes of whatever nation don’t usually eat—bugs in Cambodia and Mexico, pig anus in Colombia—this time it was lizard curry and roasted baby camel including the hump and none of the Saudis he was with had ever had either one. But they had more typical foods too, including a stop at Al Baik, the Saudi fried chicken joint. The show was surprisingly sensitive. I am wary of all the racist and Islamophobic barbs that spike any mainstream show that touches on Islam and/or the Middle East…I must say that I was expecting the worst. Tony was understandably curious and unapologetic about things he didn’t fully understand, but at the same time respectful and not the least bit patronizing or insulting. A pleasant surprise, really. He admitted that he didn’t know what to expect and that he had been propogandized to think of Saudi in only a negative light. He refers to Saudi Arabia as a country about which Americans have little understanding and even less sympathy. But he actually liked his trip. Catch it in a re-run if you can.
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A bus company has apologised after a Muslim family was stopped from boarding a bus to Leeds.
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Fatemeh
You’ve gotta be kidding me with this.
The New Yorker shows the Obamas as the right-wing sees them: Barack as a terrorist, Michelle as a Black Panther. Don’t forget the American flag burning in the fireplace! -
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Positive and negative responses to discrimination against Muslims in America.
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France rejects citizenship for a Muslim woman from Morocco because her practice of “radical” Islam is “incompatible with French values.” Another version here.
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Researchers looking at the way British Muslims are represented by the media say they have found that most coverage is negative in tone.
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Mr Moo
Mark Steel in the Independent on the made-up-stories-about-Muslims
Maybe Muslim newspapers should retaliate by publishing their own made-up stories. So it will be reported that “Barmy PC teachers in Leicester have banned children from playing Noughts and Crosses, claiming the cross reminds Church of England kiddies of the suffering undertaken by Lord Jesus. A spokesman for the Board of Education said, ‘We have to be sensitive. Which is why we’ve replaced the game with ‘Noughts and Hexagons’. We did look into calling it ‘Noughts and Crowns of Thorns’ but decided Hexagons was more appropriate.
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Mr Moo
This is a really important programme to watch. It can be watched it on Channel 4’s website if one has missed it. [Link]
There is an associated webpage and pamphletThe classic scene is the journalist showing headlines that have appeared in newspapers here in the UK, with the words ‘Jew’ or ‘Black’ substituted for ‘Muslim’, and seeing the double standards.
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Peter Oborne had a couple (1, 2) of articles in the Independent on Islamophobia in Britain.
An investigation for Channel 4’s Dispatches programme discovered many violent episodes and attacks on Muslims, with very few reported; those that do get almost no publicity.
As I type, Channel 4 are airing Oborne’s It Shouldn’t Happen to a Muslim as part of Dispatches War on Terror series.
One of the claims that will be made in the documentary is that when it comes to ‘Muslim outrage’ stories, you can just make up stories without investigating the facts. An infamous example is the “Muslim hate mob” story which was published The Sun, which turned out to be completely false.
*Dispatches is the same documentary series that received a lot of stick from Muslims over its “Undercover Mosque” programme.
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Two Derby families say day trip to the picturesque Derbyshire village of Belpar was ruined by an Islamophobic attack.
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Alex Harrowell at A Fistful of Euroes says Eurabia fans are even stupider than you can imagine.
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Here in Oz, our national newspaper is running a smear campaign against Dr Muhammad Abdulla and Griffith University because they accepted some Saudi dosh for their Islamic studies centre. (Along the lines of - eeeek Saudi money means the Wahhabis are trying to infiltrate us, and Abdulla is a leader of that proto-terrorist group Tablighi Jamaat etc.) Irfan Yusuf points out how the Saudis also pumped money into the parent corporation of that very same national newspaper.
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The story of Debbie Almontaser, ex-principal and founder of the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, NY. An example of how even working through the system can earn you a label of a jihadist (albeit a “soft” one).
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Question: Islamophobia = ?
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Irshad Manji says Fitna was “boorish” - http://tinyurl.com/yuxmse
