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Report: Facebook “Complicit” in Role as “World’s Engine for Anti-Muslim Violence”

As White Jesus Debate Rages, Islam Undergoes its Own Racial Reckoning

The worldwide push for racial justice has sparked discussion within some Muslim communities on the overly white illustrations of key figures in the Islamic tradition, particularly the twelve imams so revered in Shiaism.

Alan Macleod
July 10th, 2020
By Alan Macleod
July 10th, 2020
White Jesus Feature photo

While the vigorous and often bitter debate around depictions of “White Jesus” continues to rage, a similar, but quieter discussion is taking place within Islamic communities on the subject of overly white illustrations of key figures in the Muslim tradition, particularly the twelve imams so revered in Shiaism, an subsect of Islam that comprises

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Justice is Indivisible: Placing Palestine Back at the Center of American Muslim Activism

In many mosques across the US, Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and other places of great and perpetual injustice are hardly mentioned. Perhaps, argues Ramzy Baroud, over fear that doing so would place them at the radar of the FBI or local enforcement agencies.

Ramzy Baroud
May 8th, 2020
By Ramzy Baroud
May 8th, 2020
Palestinian American Muslims Feature photo

It was nearly twenty years ago at a Muslim conference in Washington D.C. that I heard the distressing argument that Palestine should not be made a central topic in the American Muslim political agenda. The point, which took many by surprise, was enunciated by a young American Pakistani Muslim academic, whose name is not important for my purpose

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A Real-Life Game of Risk: Why Civilizationism Is Biggest Threat to Human Rights in the 21st Century

True liberal values and human rights face their largest threat to date, a rapidly growing system of global governance based on opportunistic alliances rooted in populism and an unfettered bid for power argues Dr. James Dorsey.

Dr. James M. Dorsey
March 27th, 2019
By Dr. James M. Dorsey
March 27th, 2019
Hungary Israel

Many have framed the battle lines in the geopolitics of the emerging new world order as the 21st century’s Great Game. It’s a game that aims to shape the creation of a new Eurasia-centred world, built on the likely fusion of Europe and Asia into what former Portuguese Europe minister Bruno Macaes calls a “supercontinent.” For now, the Great Game

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The Christchurch Shooting and the Normalization of Anti-Muslim Terrorism

The real forces responsible for the destruction of many Muslim-majority countries and the current chaos present in many Western countries are not generated by civilian populations or religions but instead by the global oligarchy that engineers and profits from this chaos.

Whitney Webb
March 15th, 2019
By Whitney Webb
March 15th, 2019
New Zealand | Mosque Shooting

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND -- What is without question the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history took place on Friday when shooters, 28-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant among them, opened fire at two Christchurch mosques. Four, including Tarrant, have been arrested for the heinous act, which claimed at least 49 innocent lives. Tarrant was

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IDF Videos Aimed Squarely at Spurring Arab-on-Arab Hate and Sectarianism

The head of the IDF’s Arabic language media division has been making a series of videos hoping to undermine Arab support for Palestine and foment hate against Iran.

Whitney Webb
June 11th, 2018
By Whitney Webb
June 11th, 2018
IDF Arabic media spokesman Avichay Adraee.

GAZA – A new video released by an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) spokesman has unnerved many in the global Muslim community for its use of sectarian rhetoric and slurs targeting Shia Muslims that are often used by leaders of extremist Wahhabi terror groups. The video, released on social media on Thursday and already with more than 20,000 views,

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Beyond Fasting: What We Can All Learn From Ramadan

It’s a holiday intended for introspection and community, something Muslims and non-Muslims alike can benefit from.

Shaima Shamdeen
May 21st, 2018
By Shaima Shamdeen
May 21st, 2018
Makkah Ali and Ikhlas Saleem, co-hosts of the Identity Politics podcast, use Ramadan as a time to control physical impulses, such a backbiting or anger, and renew their spirituality. (Photo: Sakeenah Saleem)

The Muslim holiday of Ramadan begins this week, and the first thing that many non-Muslims envision is a month of fasting under blazing desert suns. Ramadan isn’t as simple as that, even for Muslims who practice the holiday in the West. Muslims who observe Ramadan in majority non-Muslim countries face unique challenges. While many Muslims live in

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