Ahead of French poll, pro-Europeans take heart from Wilders defeat
After Brexit and Trump, many pro-EU politicians were beginning to dread a wave of right-wing populism that might reach the Netherlands and, most dangerously for the bloc, France. The Dutch election results have them breathing a sigh of relief, though not all observers are convinced. Paris (dpa) – It’s the nightmare haunting European Union leaders […]
Texas Teacher Under Fire For Anti-Muslim Tweets
A Houston school teacher has been condemned and faces an investigation after sending out a series of anti-Islamic tweets. One of the tweets reads, “Embrace Islam and you embrace death”; he also sent out violent photos of mutilated children with the caption, “Islam did this,” according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The teacher, […]
US State Lawmaker to Muslims: ‘Do You Beat Your Wife?’
Islamic school students hoped to meet last week with a state representative at Oklahoma’s capitol during Muslim Day, designed to combat hate rhetoric and hate legislation. Instead, in the office of one representative, the students were asked to answer several written questions, including “Mohammed was a killer of pagans, Christians and Jews that did not […]
Trump Aides Won’t Say Islam Is A Religion
President Donald Trump’s top aides have avoided providing a simple answer to a question particularly relevant to his first 100 days in the White House: Does the president think Islam is a religion? Trump has so far signed off on an executive order restricting travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, initially offering priority refugee status and […]
Golden State of Hate: Extremism on the Rise in Calif.
Capital & Main is an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political and social issues. On election night last November, Nathan Damigo, a 30-year-old white nationalist and student at California State University, Stanislaus, met up with friends in the northern California city of Folsom. As they bounced from bar to bar, it became […]
Anti-Islam Banner Suggests Muslims Endanger Americans
A man has defended posting an anti-Islam banner outside of his southern California home by echoing the message of President Donald Trump, saying “We need to take care of America first.” The banner outside a house in the town of Ontario featured symbols for Christianity and Judaism and the word “Islam” crossed out in the […]
Wilders Suspends Campaign Over Security Leaks
Controversial anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, whose party had long led the polls ahead of next month’s Dutch general election, has suspended his campaign after a security agent allegedly leaked information on his whereabouts to a Dutch-Moroccan criminal gang. Wilders, who had been receiving 24-hour state protection, announced the move after reports emerged that an employee […]
Politics, not theology, at root of Islamism, says French scholar
“Never in our recent history [has] the gap between the politically correct discourse about political Islam in France and in the Arab world been so profound,” said . A French political scientist, Arabist and senior researcher at the French Institute for Scientific…
Hate Crimes Rise For Second Straight Year In 2016
Last year was an unprecedented year for hate as 2016 witnessed the number of hate groups in the U.S. rise for the second consecutive year, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported Wednesday. The number of organizations the Southern Poverty Law Center considers hate groups increased from 892 in 2015 to 917 in 2016. Anti-Muslim hate […]
Trump Fan Charged with Hate Crime for Assault on Muslim
A Donald Trump supporter has been charged with hate crimes for allegedly assaulting a Muslim employee and telling her the new U.S. president would “get rid of all of you.” A Thursday statement from the Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown identified the man as Robin A. Rhodes, 57, from Worchester, Massachusetts. According to the […]