Explaining the rise in hate crimes against Muslims in the US
By Brian Levin, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Director, Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, California State University San Bernardino. Muslim women hold signs to express opposition to hate crimes and rhetoric. AP Photo/Seth Wenig Hate crimes against Muslims have been on the rise. The murder of two samaritans for aiding two […]
Nearly $1m raised for victims of Jeremy Christian
Muslims in Portland thanked the community for its support as they raised money for the victims of a deadly attack on a train by an Islamophobic white supremacist. On Friday, Jeremy Joseph Christian – a 35-year-old who was known to authorities – fatally slit the throats of 53-year-old Ricky John Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai […]
US Muslims Seek Sanctions, Politicians Urge Caution in Syria
The largest U.S. Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization is expressing hope the U.S. military strike in Syria is signaling a reversal of President Donald Trump’s stance on banning U.S. entry to people from six majority-Muslim countries, including Syria. Trump, who was viscerally moved by footage of an apparent chemical weapons attack in Syria on […]
Life As An American Muslim
Muslim Americans face a unique set of challenges that their fellow Americans don’t. We’ll talk with a pair of American Muslims about having to regularly justify their right to even live in the U.S. – and about being associated with those who would harm others in the name of religion. We’ll start the show talking […]
Trump’s counterterror programme
On January 21, one day after US President Donald Trump was sworn into office, the resistance was inaugurated by way of women’s marches across the country. Muslim-Americans were prominent in these marches, with civil rights leaders such as Linda Sarsour organising and addressing the Washington, DC, crowd, and Muslim American women leading offshoot marches. The […]
Will Trump Require Muslims To Enter National Registry?
Donald Trump’s promise to strengthen national security against radical jihadist terrorism is reportedly taking shape in the form of a national registry system that would identify, and possibly even allow authorities to monitor, immigrants coming from Arab and Muslim-majority nations. The controversial program could require Muslim Americans already living in the country to identify themselves, a proposal […]
Nearly 3 Million Muslim Americans Face Trump Travel Ban
Donald Trump’s ban on all Muslims entering the United States could prevent over three million American citizens from traveling freely to and from their home country. That’s because, as of the latest estimates in 2016, there are over 3.3 million Muslims already living throughout the nation – and that figure could more than double by […]
Can the Muslim American family survive Trump?
The day after the presidential election, my 14-year-old son left a message in the shower. With his little brother’s foam alphabet letters, he spelled out, “Haters gonna hate us.” It was the “us” that transformed the popular catchphrase into something troubling. I knew that the rhetoric of this election cycle had affected my children, but […]
Muslim Americans Brace for Trump Presidency
Muslim Americans are preparing for life under a new president who last December proposed banning foreign Muslims from entering the United States. President-elect Donald Trump later walked back such a blanket ban, instead saying people from countries flagged as terrorism concerns would be subject to “extreme vetting.” Those comments made many Muslim Americans wary of […]
Muslim-American Leaders React to Trump’s Election
Leaders of Muslim-American communities and organizations congratulated Donald Trump, and implored the president-elect to change his tone and protect the rights of all Americans, at a Wednesday afternoon news conference held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and live-streamed on the organization’s Facebook page. The Republican nominee, whose decisive victory Tuesday night startled many in […]