As pundits, political strategists and talking heads debate Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, there is one group of individuals still left out of the conversation. African American Muslims are reacting to the statements of the GOP front-runner from a different set of lenses; lenses that…
Attacks on mosques appear to have become more frequent and threats against Muslims more menacing since the terrorist attacks in Paris and the shooting in San Bernardino. “A pigs head at a mosque in Philadelphia, a girl harassed at a school in New York, hate mail sent to a New Jersey mosque … I can’t…
Republican and Democratic leaders leveled their most forceful criticism yet against Donald Trump on Tuesday, widely denouncing the GOP presidential front-runner’s call to bar Muslims from entering the United States and signaling that Trump’s anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic rhetoric has agitated both parties more than ever. At the White House, President Obama’s top spokesman said Trump’s proposal “disqualifies…
The more immigrants feel respected, the less they are vulnerable to radicalization“, says Marieke van Egmond, who is a psychologists and co-author of a joint investigation led by the Jacobs University of Bremen and the University of Maryland. The Professors Klaus Boehnke and Michele Gelfand interviewed 464 Muslims between 2013 and 2014. 204 Muslims were…
The German vice-chancellor has publicly accused Saudi Arabia of financing Islamic extremism in the West and warned that it must stop. Sigmar Gabriel said that the Saudi regime is funding extremist mosques and communities that pose a danger to public security. “We have to make clear to the Saudis that the time of looking away…
