The Racial Divide Between Immigrant Muslims and African-American Muslims: Mohammed Brahimi who has an extensive background in community organizing and advocacy, has spoken out about the need for Muslim communities to come together and fight for justice for all. Brahimi explains that the Muslim community appeared to cocoon itself from the wider American community and be…
The slogan “We are the people!” (Wir sind das Volk!) was one of the iconic protest chants of the 1989 ‘peaceful revolution’. It helped seal the fate of the crumbling regime of East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party (SED), ultimately paving the way for German reunification. Since 2015, the chant has been heard again; and again…
Can you be a “neutral” policewoman and still wear an Islamic headscarf? According to young Dutch Muslim Sarah Izat (26), these two are not in contradiction with each other. Izat, who has worked for the Dutch police force since she was twenty-one years old, has become prominent in Dutch public debates about wearing a headscarf…
The government stokes fear and fails to understand the Muslim world. But inside at least one courtroom remains an unusual precedent: context can be served July 17, 2014 Sitting and waiting in US District Court here on Wednesday, you got the undeniable sense that something unusual was about to happen. Here was the end of…
Ahmad, who could be freed in a year because of time served, pleaded guilty to providing material support to the Taliban July 16, 2014 Babar Ahmad, the British citizen who was extradited to the US two years ago, has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for providing material support to the Taliban…
