Muslim and LGBTQ leaders came together at The 519 community centre, in the gay village, to denounce Islamophobia and homophobia. Muslims and LGBTQ people both know how it feels to be treated badly or even hated sometimes because of who they are. Mostly, these groups have suffered separately. But the tragedy in Orlando brought some…
Today, with the presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and others like him spewing hate speech, prejudice is reaching new levels. It’s visceral, and scary, and it affects how people live, work and pray. It makes me afraid for my family. It also makes no sense. Xenophobic rhetoric was central to Mr. Trump’s campaign long before…
The response of German Muslim leaders and organisations to the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando has generally been relatively muted. Whilst the main federations – DITIB, ZMD, VIKZ, and IGMG – had been quick to denounce recent attacks in Brussels and Paris in official press releases on their websites, these organisations have remained…
Key Points: The most significant anti-Islam action of the 2014 midterm election, Alabama’s Amendment 1, was approved by voters. Alabama is the eighth state to approve a law intended to vilify Islam. The measure was inspired by Islamophobe David Yerushalmi’s American Laws for American Courts legislation, which stigmatizes Muslims as a group from which the…
July 3, 2014 Sigmar Gabriel, currently Minister of Economic Affairs and Vice Chancellor of Germany, believes that Germany needs more Muslims in the public sector. He said that we are lacking Muslim judges, prosecutors, policemen, principals. One important reason for the underrepresentation of Muslims in the public sector, according to Sigmar Gabriel, is the presence…
