The 6th of September, Tariq Ramadan made his return to public life with his first media appearance, as he took part to a TV interview Friday 6thof September on French channels RMC and BFM TV. This come back coincided with the publication of his book titled « Devoir de vérité » [Duty of Truth] a few days later,…
The mass shooting incident at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, which left eleven people dead and six people wounded on Saturday, has lead to a flurry of Muslim-driven initiatives expressing solidarity and providing support. A statement by the Islamic Center of Pittburgh extended their “deepest sympathies and condolences to the victims, their families,…
The UN special rapporteur on racism, Professor Tendayi Achiume, has criticised the Prevent duty for fuelling distrust among ethnic minority communities and for impacting racial equality in the UK. Her comments came as she observed that Brexit has contributed to an environment of increased “explicit racial, ethnic and religious intolerance” in the UK.
Are the rising levels of Islamophobic hate crimes in Germany indicative of a new form of racism? Yes, says Yasemin Shooman, researcher at the Technical University of Berlin and director of the Jewish-Islamic Forum at Berlin’s renowned Jewish Museum. ‘Immigrant’ = ‘Muslim’ The backdrop to Shooman’s argument is the de facto Islamisation of immigration debates. While…
20 years on from their ground-breaking report on the topic, the Runnymede Trust has published a new report stating Islamophobia is “still a challenge for us all”
