Discrimination and Xenophobia
German army, intelligence agencies, and CDU party embroiled in far-right network
The elite KSK brigade of the German Army is a notoriously secretive military unit: composed of 1,000 hand-picked soldiers, it is tasked with conducting covert operations, hostage rescue abroad, and counter-terrorism interventions. In recent weeks, however, the KSK – the abbreviation stands for Kommando Spezialkräfte – has been dragged into the spotlight: after two soldiers…
Facebook called out as a vehicle of Anti-Muslim hate in the United States and beyond
An investigative piece in the Guardian last week has revealed a “vast international operation” in which a mysterious group, traced back to Israel, has co-opted least 21 far-right pages on Facebook to create a “commercial enterprise that harvests anti-Islamic hate for profit and influences politics across the globe.” They have used these pages to co-ordinate…
Walk Against Islamophobia: 13,500 People Gather to Say No to Anti-Muslim Acts
The 5thof November, the French newspaper Le Parisienpublished an online survey stating that more than 40% of French Muslims declared having suffered discrimination. This survey, imperfect as it is, specified that French Muslims felt discriminated against in many sectors, such as the search for a job or an accommodation, their relationships with the police, or…
The « reopening » of French debate on veil: a national debate without any Muslims?
“Not here, not today”. This is what a local elected politician from the Rassemblement National(a far-right party) told to a veiled mother, who accompanied her son’s class for a school visit in the regional parliament in Burgundy (eastern France) the 11thof October. The politician urged the mother to remove her headscarf or to leave the…
President of the UK’s National Union of Students pulls out of governing Conservative Party Conference after Islamophobic comments
The leader of the National Union of Students, Zamzam Ibrahim, has decided to withdraw from speaking at two sessions of the Conservative Party conference, taking place this week, after a fringe event of the conference, called “Challenging Islamophobia”, that took place this past Sunday contained “disturbing, downright Islamophobia”. She wrote on twitter: I came to…