Discrimination and Xenophobia
Black Lives Matter in Germany: Protests, solidarity, and resilient colour-blindness
Like other European countries, Germany has witnessed a wave of demonstrations in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, sparked by the killing of George Floyd by a US policeman. According to official (police) figures, on the first weekend of June 15,000 protesters attended a rally on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz square, and the largest demonstration in…
Anger, fear and exasperation among German Muslims after the Hanau attack
Germany has been rocked by one of the worst far-right attacks in its recent history: at around 10pm local time on the evening of Wednesday, February 19, a gunman opened fire on two Shisha bars in the town of Hanau, around 25km from Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt. Racially motivated gun attacks on two hookah establishments…
Is Islamophobia a form a racism?: An ongoing British debate
There has been a recent wave of academics and activists who define, and are attempting to formalise this definition of, Islamophobia as a particular form of racism.. These academics include David Theo Goldberg; Maleiha Malik; Salman Sayyid and Brian Klug. In typifying Islamophobia is anti-Muslim racism, one advantage is being able to leverage existing legal…
Possibility of an expansion of Trump’s ‘Muslim’ Travel ban evokes reaction and opposition
An internal government document that has been circulating the White House, has revealed plans of the U.S. government to expand the so called “Muslim” Travel Ban, by including additional countries. The current ban as it stands includes restrictions on travel from five Muslim majority countries: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Venezuela and North Korea…
The Council on American-Islamic Relations assists American-Iranians caught up in United States-Iran Tensions
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the United State’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation, has released “a “Know Your Rights” set of community advisory guidelines, in light of American-Iranian tensions. The guidelines are directed at all those who may be impacted by the threat of war between the two countries, including Iranian-Americans, Syrian-Americans,…