Millions Protest India’s Anti-Muslim Citizenship Laws As Gov’t Crackdown Intensifies

At least 25 people have been killed in the protests and India’s far-right government has banned gatherings in cities across the country.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
India Citizenship Law Protest Feature photo

Millions of Indians have defied Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ban on protests to express their opposition to the government’s wave of anti-Muslim citizenship laws, especially the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Registration Council (NRC). Around 140 million Muslims live in India and many see the new steps as a fresh attempt by the

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Manifestos of Hate: What White Terrorists Have in Common

Crusius, Tarrant and many such white terrorists are connected through a deep bond that exceeds the supposed claim of mental illness into something truly sinister. 

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
New Zealand Brenton Tarrant

Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious.  “If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim,” Bayoumi wrote in the British Guardian newspaper on August 6, US President Donald Trump “would be lobbing accusations such as ‘Islam hates us’ in the direction of Muslims and not lecturing the

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China’s Crackdown Turkic Muslims Could Be It’s Achilles Heel

China’s campaign in Xinjiang is effectively enabled by the silence, driven primarily by a desire of governments, many of which are deeply indebted to China, to preserve economic relations, and allows it to largely ignore criticism by Western nations, human rights groups as well as the Uyghur Diaspora.

Dr. James M. Dorsey
By Dr. James M. Dorsey
Chinese Muslims Human Rights

A list of 26 predominantly Muslim countries considered sensitive by China reflects Chinese concerns that they could reinforce religious sentiment among the People’s Republic’s Turkic Muslim population with potentially far-reaching consequences if the Islamic world were to take it to task for its crackdown in Xinjiang, the most frontal assault on

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Is Boris Johnson Really a Racist? A Look at His Track Record

A cursory perusal of Johnson’s track record of statements relating to the ethnicity, country of origin and/or religion of various people throws light on the question.

Nafeez Ahmed
By Nafeez Ahmed
Britain's Foreign Minister Boris Johnson Africa

Former Foreign Secretary and oft-described ‘Brexit architect’ Boris Johnson described Muslim women who wear the “burka” and “niqab” as looking like “letterboxes” and “bankrobbers.” But he is not racist, obviously. A cursory perusal of his track record of statements relating to the ethnicity, country of origin and/or religion of various people

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The Uyghur Militant Threat: China Cracks Down and Mulls Policy Changes

China is forcing its Uyghur population into re-education camps at home and launching it’s first foreign military intervention in decades to make sure they are defeated in Syria.

Dr. James M. Dorsey
By Dr. James M. Dorsey
In this Nov. 4, 2017 file photo, Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region. Ng Han Guan | AP

China, responding to United Nations criticism, academic and media reports, and an embarrassing court case in Kazakhstan, has come closer to admitting that it has brutally cracked down on the strategic north-western province of Xinjiang in what it asserts is a bid to prevent the kind of mayhem that has wracked countries like Syria and Libya. The

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A Long List of Public Figures Jake Tapper Must Condemn for Ties to Farrakhan

Jake Tapper attacked Keith Ellison for over four minutes over his association with Farrakhan. It’s time he demonstrate some moral consistency and condemn Ronald Reagan, too.

Hamzah Raza | Grayzone Project
By Hamzah Raza | Grayzone Project
Ellison Tapper CNN Screenshot

On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld President Donald Trump’s Executive Order supporting a ban on immigration from many Muslim-majority countries, especially those in the crosshairs of American foreign policy. The five Republican judges decided that it did not matter that Trump had been touting plans for a Muslim ban for over

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