The Muslim Post

Neo-Nazi Neil Erikson Confused the Quran With the Bible

U.S. Puts $5 Million Bounty On Pakistani Taliban Leader

Neil Erikson, a far-right, anti-Islam activist and self-proclaimed neo-Nazi in Australia, picked up a copy of the Quran as he prepared to give sworn evidence under religious oath in court on Monday. Related: Bible Miraculously Didn’t Burn When an Evangelical Church Was Firebombed by Militants, Congregants Claim The court staff then pointed out his mistake, […]

Report: Extremism Deaths Down in US, but White Supremacist Incidents Growing

Report: Extremism Deaths Down in US, but White Supremacist Incidents Growing

A report released Wednesday said the number of slayings committed by white supremacists in the United States more than doubled in 2017 compared with the previous year. The U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League noted in its report that while the U.S. death toll from extremism was down in 2017, it was still the fifth most violent year […]

White Supremacists Killed 18 People in 2017

Jesus Was Not White. Here Is Why That Matters

White supremacists not only shed their masks in 2017 but unleashed one of the deadliest years for extremist violence in almost half a century. Over the past 12 months, white supremacists committed the largest number of domestic-extremist related killings, helping to make 2017 the fifth-deadliest year for extremist violence since 1970, according to a newly […]

Twitter Bans Trump’s Retweeted Anti-Muslim Videos In Anti-Hate Speech Measure

Twitter Bans Trump’s Retweeted Anti-Muslim Videos In Anti-Hate Speech Measure

Twitter suspended the accounts of the far-right leaders of Britain First Monday, thus scrapping several anti-Muslim videos they posted that were retweeted by President Donald Trump. Britan First leader Paul Golding and his deputy Jayda Fransen were banished from Twitter and their old posts were also deleted. Three anti-Muslim videos Fransen posted that were retweeted […]

Warning signs of mass violence – in the US?

Warning signs of mass violence – in the US?

By Nadia Rubaii, Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Associate Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Max Pensky, Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York. Protesters with opposing views face off at a ‘Free […]

Over the years, Americans have become increasingly exposed to extremism

Over the years, Americans have become increasingly exposed to extremism

By James E. Hawdon, Director, Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention, Virginia Tech. A man sporting a Nazi tattoo leaves Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 12, 2017. Steve Helber/AP Photo Extremism has always been with us, but the internet has allowed ideas that advocate hate and violence to reach more and more […]

Pope advisors attack Trump’s aide Steve Bannon and US religious right

Rome (dpa) – Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon and Christian extremists that have sided with the US president have a dangerously “fundamentalist” world view, according to two confidantes of Pope Francis. In a Sunday comment on Italian daily La Repubblica, church historian Alberto Melloni said the papal aides have laid bare “an unprecedented conflict” […]

British Government Accused of Failing to Tackle Extreme Right Terror Threat

British Government Accused of Failing to Tackle Extreme Right Terror Threat

The British government is being urged to do more to tackle violence by right-wing extremists, following the attack outside London’s Finsbury Park mosque in the early hours of Monday morning. One person died and at least 11 were injured when 47-year-old Darren Osborne from Wales drove his van into a crowd of worshippers, reportedly shouting…

How Brazil’s progressive migration bill was sabotaged

How Brazil's progressive migration bill was sabotaged

In the midst of a global refugee crisis, Brazilian congress has approved a new migration law , considered initially by many specialists as a breakthrough . Yet, after the bill was unanimously approved by the National Congress in May, pressure from right-wing politicians, the security forces, and extreme right-wing activists forced President Michel Temer to […]

What Is Alt-Right?

With the rise of President Donald Trump in the U.S., the country’s attention has shifted to the rise of an alternative or alt-right — a group of people supporting far-right ideologies. People supporting this ideology are blamed for promoting racism, anti-Semitism, and misogyny. Rejecting mainstream conservatism, supporters of the alt-right ideology say they are mainly […]