PARIS — The French Culture Ministry ruled Wednesday that a new documentary film on Islamic radicals was unsuitable for minors, saying that it offered images of violence that were “sometimes unbearable” and interviews with members of Al Qaeda and other extremist figures that provided a platform for propaganda. The documentary, “Salafistes,” will also be accompanied…
Britain has not seen rise in anti-Muslim sentiment since the attacks on Paris, according to a new study carried out by the University of Manchester. Rob Ford and Maria Sobolewska asked respondents the same questions before and after the attacks on Paris which killed 130 people and found that prior to the atrocity 33% of…
Nine people were added to a long list of lives taken by domestic terrorism when Dylann Roof allegedly began shooting inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17. At least 48 people have been killed stateside by right-wing extremists in the 14 years since since the September 11 attacks — almost twice…
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/17/15) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released a preliminary report on incidents targeting American mosques and religious institutions in 2015 that shows a greater frequency of damage, destruction, vandalism, and intimidation than in any other year since CAIR started tracking such…
Muslims today can no longer think, or ultimately exist, outside the widespread lore about Islam, which links them to discussions about terror, violence and the separation of religion and society. They can never be free of the neverending stream of projections about Islam. An essay by Farid Hafez Has anything changed for Muslims, since the…
