Tags - Islamophobia
Rasa - With part of Sunday night’s debate focusing on Islamophobia and the United States' approach to fighting homegrown terrorism, one local expert watched the debate closely to see how they handle the issue.
News ID: 424240 Publish Date : 2016/10/11
Rasa - An estimated 3.3 million Muslims live in the United States, and in the 14-year span between Sept. 11, 2001 and the end of 2014, 344 Muslims in America have been involved in violent extremism, according to the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security.
News ID: 424150 Publish Date : 2016/10/07
Rasa - California’s legislature has moved to protect students from bullying based on religion, responding to what the new law’s author says is an increase in Islamophobia .
News ID: 424147 Publish Date : 2016/10/07
Rasa - Muslims are questioning their freedom in Germany after a mosque under construction was vandalized late Wednesday by assailants writing racist-Islamophobic slogans on its walls. This is the third attack targeting mosques since late September.
News ID: 424146 Publish Date : 2016/10/07
Turkish minister:
Rasa - A Turkish minister said Thursday that members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should work to fight Islamophobia .
News ID: 424117 Publish Date : 2016/10/06
Hujjat al-Islam Hamza Sodagar:
Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Sodagar said we must understand that Islamophobia is for domestic consumption in Western countries. They spread Islamophobia because there is attraction towards Islam and they spread Iranophobia because there is an attraction toward Iran.
News ID: 424015 Publish Date : 2016/10/02
Rasa - City leaders announced Thursday a new curriculum to combat Islamophobia among middle school students in San Francisco.
News ID: 424007 Publish Date : 2016/09/30
Rasa - Tonight, Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the council of American-Islamic Relations played two different hate calls that the council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Somali-American museum received recently. Hussein says he played these voicemails to show the crowd that Islamophobia does exist.
News ID: 424006 Publish Date : 2016/09/30
Rasa - It’s been nearly two weeks since 20-year-old Dahir Adan injured ten people in a knife attack at Crossroads Mall, and the racial tension in St. Cloud is still high.
News ID: 424004 Publish Date : 2016/09/30
Rasa - Journalists and scholars of Islam explored the bias Muslims face and how the media influences both public opinion and global politics in “ Islamophobia in Focus” last week at the Newseum.
News ID: 423984 Publish Date : 2016/09/29
Rasa - Anti-Muslim hate crimes spiked in 2016 — most notably during the start of the presidential election cycle — and New York City officials hope to combat their rise through a series of public service announcements and educational workshops.
News ID: 423941 Publish Date : 2016/09/27
Rasa - Members of the Phoenix area's Muslim community will be watching Monday night's presidential debate closely at a watch party in Tempe.
News ID: 423940 Publish Date : 2016/09/27
Rasa - Residents of Queens in New York gathered at the mosque where just hours earlier an imam and his assistant were shot dead.
News ID: 422792 Publish Date : 2016/08/19
Rasa – A Lebanese-American man in the state of Oklahoma was shot and killed by a neighbor who was accused of using violence and shouting anti-Muslim slurs against the man’s family for years.
News ID: 422756 Publish Date : 2016/08/17
Rasa - Denmark’s first Muslim boarding school, which is located near Fuglebjerg in southern Zealand – was on Wednesday night vandalised with anti-Islam graffiti.
News ID: 422726 Publish Date : 2016/08/15
Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad Elahi:
Rasa – Press TV has conducted an interview with Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad Elahi, an imam at the Islamic House of Wisdom, about the American Muslim community’s response to the fatal shooting of a mosque imam and his associate in New York last Saturday.
News ID: 422712 Publish Date : 2016/08/15
Rasa – A Muslim imam and his assistant have been shot and killed while walking home from afternoon prayers at a mosque in the New York City borough of Queens.
News ID: 422696 Publish Date : 2016/08/14
Rasa – Members of a Michigan family were shocked on Thursday to see the face of their wife and mother in a video on CNN’s website about jihadi recruitment in France.
News ID: 422691 Publish Date : 2016/08/13
Rasa – The government’s conflation of integration with counter-terrorism has exacerbated inequalities experienced by British Muslims, MPs have said.
News ID: 422683 Publish Date : 2016/08/13
Rasa – A Muslim woman said that US police officers in the US city of Chicago ripped off her hijab as she walked up the staircase to a train and accused her of being a “terrorist,” according to a federal lawsuit and her lawyer.
News ID: 422677 Publish Date : 2016/08/12