Islamophobia

Antisemitism, Islamophobia on the rise in US amid Israel-Palestine war

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it received 774 complaints of incidents motivated by Islamophobia and bias against Palestinians and Arabs from Oct. 7 to Tuesday. The group said this was the highest level since 2015

France to ban abayas in school: The country’s long history of veil bans

France’s education minister has banned abayas – a loose robe that covers everything but the face, hands and feet – in schools. The European nation has been restricting and banning several Islam-related garments – from burqas to hijabs and even the burkinis, citing secularism as the main reason

Rise of religious extremism in West: Should Europe finally bid farewell to secularism?

Secularism’s focus on the separation of religion and state neglects the influence of religious ideology, or the "God Gap", in the radicalization process

Why Hindus lack a sense of collective harm: Mass unity is a distraction, ancestral continuity is the destination

Why is it difficult for Hindus as individuals to face the reality that hostile and hateful beliefs and forces exist that threaten Hindus indeed as a collective? Do we lack a sense of collective harm, or collective anything for that matter?

Hinduphobia’s validity has nothing to do with the merits or demerits of the term ‘Islamophobia’

If a Hindu does not learn to make the case in a classroom in school or college about how Hinduphobia has as deep and long a history as anti-semitism, for that is a fact, our generation would have failed as educators and parents

UK: How official recognition of 'Hinduphobia' will only cede intellectual legitimacy to Islamophobia

It will occur at a moment when the very idea of Islamophobia is increasingly being challenged with derision by the public

Taslima Nasrin writes | Quran burning in Sweden: Time is ripe for Muslims to stop rioting over religion

Religious sentiments cannot be so fragile; they must be recast in steel. Just as there won’t be riots anywhere if a Bible was to be burned, the same must be ensured in the case of Quran

Who is Amira Elghawaby, Canada's first anti-Islamophobia advisor?

Amira Elghawaby, an active human rights campaigner, is a columnist for the Toronto Star newspaper. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised her appointment as 'an important step in the fight against Islamophobia and hatred in all its forms'

The case of the US professor who lost her job for showing her class Prophet Muhammad painting

A professor at Hamline University in Minnesota lost her job after the Prophet Muhammad painting she showed in class outraged Muslim students. Now she is suing the institution for labelling her Islamophobic and damaging her reputation

A war of lies against Bharat, Hindus and Modi government: Analysing the response since 2014

On 2 October, the New York Times published an advertisement featuring an open letter alleging severe human rights atrocities by the Indian government. As of now, the only responses to it have not been from the Indian government, but from diasporic Hindu organisations on Twitter