Tag: Islamaphobia

Two Brothers Jailed For Racially Abusing Muslim Family In Wales

The South Wales Evening Post reports on the sentencing of two brothers for their part in a gang which subjected an Asian family to racist abuse. The local paper reports that the British Bangladeshi family had moved to Pontarddulais from Birmingham but the family had experienced ongoing racist abuse from members of the local community. Swansea Crown… Read More ›

Jewish Man Attacked At College; Muslim Student Came To Victim’s Aid

A 24-year-old Jewish man was attacked at Brooklyn college. The victim was talking to a few friends when he turned around he was punched repeatedly. The police have confirmed this as a hate-crime. The fascinating part of this story, after the Jewish man was attacked, a Muslim woman came to his aid. The Muslim student… Read More ›

The Rise Of Political Clickbait: IKEA Murders

This installment of The Rise of Political Clickbait is all about the IKEA murders, and the whirlwind of misinformation in the news media. Major update: On September 29, 2015, it was confirmed that the attacker, Abraham Ukbagabir, is not Muslim. He is a Christian, and the attack was not religiously motivated. Here’s the article: Washington… Read More ›

Racist White Woman Goes Batshit-Crazy Mistakes Two Brazilians For Terrorists

A racist white woman stopped her truck (car) and started berating a group of Brazilians who were making a comedy show for their Youtube channel, UH-OH MONKEY. UHOH Mike posted the encounter with the racist lady on his Facebook page: A racist white lady mistakes two Brazilians for Terrorists. I was filming a sketch for… Read More ›

American Muslims Rally to condemn ISIS (Daesh), American Supermacists Claim It Was A Parade In Support Of Daesh

In Dearborn, Michigan, American Muslims held a march to denounce ISIS. As in they held an actual parade to condemn ISIS and ISIS’ version of Islam which is, uncannily enough, exactly what many shrieking xenophobes (e.g. sitting congressman and King of the Mole Rats Steve King) have been demanding American Muslims “do” in order to disassociate… Read More ›

Non-Muslim Professor Suspended For Saying Christians And Muslims Worship The Same God

DailyKos Larycia Hawkins, an associate Professor of political science at Wheaton College probably thought she was on safe ground when she favorably compared Christians and Muslims as both “people of the book.” She probably thought she was on even safer ground when she quoted Pope Francis’ statement that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Boy,… Read More ›

Trump Supporter Arrested After Plotting To Murder Muslims

A man was arrested recently after a police tip alerted authorities that the man was constructing explosive devices and allegedly making threats to murder Muslims. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola discuss on The Young Turks. Read more at Think progress: “Police in Richmond, California have arrested 55-year-old William Celli, who was allegedly constructing explosive devices… Read More ›

Francis Ford Coppola on Islam and the Quran

“One of the great blessings hidden in trials and tribulations is that good people rise to the occasion and remind others of our shared humanity. Why is it that so many people of other faiths seem to understand the essential message of the Qur’an, while some of our so called Muslims completely distort and denigrate… Read More ›

On Syrian Refugees, Gun-Obsessed Nevada Lawmaker Says She Would ‘Shoot Them In The Head’ Herself

A gun-obsessed Republican lawmaker is proving to be perhaps the most insane elected official in the entire United States. Earlier this year she said she believed cancer is a fungus and last week she gained nationwide ridicule after she shared her family Christmas card, which featured her entire family holding guns, even grandma and a young boy… Read More ›

Headteacher Refers To ‘Prevent Strategy’ In Letter To MP About Refusing Muslim Pupils A Prayer Room

  The headteacher of a Bradford school at the centre of a legal dispute arising over its decision to refuse Muslim pupils a room to perform their daily prayers is said to have referred to the Government’s counter radicalisation strategy, Prevent, in a letter to a local MP setting out the school’s position. The Huddersfield… Read More ›