ISLAMOPHOBIA

It’s Come to This: An Anti-Hate Hotline for New York City Schools

People don’t come into the world hating. They are not born to hate. They have to be taught.

Indiana Muslims Win Settlement in Favor of Religious Rights

“Discrimination on the basis of religion has no place in the Crossroads of America,” said U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana Zachary A. Myers.

Life Without Basketball: A Young Muslim Woman’s Journey From Athlete to Advocate

“Am I anybody without basketball? Am I still myself?”

Shoulder to Shoulder Panel Shows Us Why People of All Faiths Must Confront Islamophobia

“If someone’s going to hate on Muslims they’re also going to hate on Jews. We need to stick together. The more we stick together, the greater this union we call America is.”

Supreme Court Ruling Allows Muslims to Pursue Religious Discrimination Claims

“We are hopeful that the lower courts will see this case for what it is—the unconstitutional targeting of a religious community by the federal government,” said CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush.

Why All People of Faith Must Cherish and Protect the First Amendment

The sacred texts of the Church of Scientology were misunderstood, taken out of context, and embedded into a decision which stated, wrongly, what Scientologists believe.

The European Court of Justice Strengthens the Right to Practice Bigotry

To say that a person’s faith is very personal and important is to state the obvious. To observe, however, that what a person believes is part of that person, and as often as not defines that person, takes empathy and a wish to understand people as individuals, rather than as a demographic mass.

The Muslim Roots of the Statue of Liberty

It was the late 1860s. The plan was for a colossal neoclassical sculpture on the scale of the Colossus of Rhodes: 86 feet high on a 48-foot pedestal. It was to be called “Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia.” It was to depict a woman holding a torch and would serve as a a symbol of Egypt’s technological progress.

The Sun’s Crusade to Eclipse the Truth

Witness, too, The Sun’s decades-long campaign against ethnic migrants and minorities in general and Muslims in particular. Among the screaming headlines The Sun has spewed in this regard are:

Muslim Representation in Media: Is Three Dimensions Too Much to Ask?

The Muslim Public Affairs Council Hollywood Bureau held its media awards ceremony on March 20. It was a straightforward affair, shot on a simple stage intercut with livestreams from the homes of the awardees—a far cry from the Golden Globes held a few weeks earlier, but more meaningful to me.

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