Nineteen years after 9/11, Muslim victims of discrimination still face unfriendly courts.
Chief constables stand accused of blocking an inquiry into discrimination against Muslim officers
A group representing former Uber drivers from Britain is considering whether to appeal a decision by a Dutch court that largely backed the ride-hailing company in a dispute over access to data collected about drivers.
Black Americans are relocating to Africa in droves in search of peace, a lower cost of living and an ancestral connection.
The markers of identification of communities have clearly moved from just race, colour and national or ethnic origin to include religion. In the case of Muslims, their faith and culture and all that it…
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Amid racial tension, Dayton looks to bolster local human rights office
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today urged the People's Republic of China to end all state-sanctioned denial of religious freedoms targeting Muslims in that nation's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Discrimination commissioner says rise in racism against Asian Australians, Muslims and others is ‘significant’ threat to society and economy
On Monday, Johnson launched a Cabinet Office inquiry into these allegations, after Ghani accused the Prime Minister of showing unwillingness to get involved.
On Sept. 17, 2001, shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks, President George W. Bush declared that “these acts of violence violate the fundamental tenets ...
Australia is experiencing an “alarming emergence” of religious intolerance, Attorney-General George Brandis said on Thursday, calling for greater efforts to counter discrimination, particularly against Muslims and Christians. Brandis, who spoke at an inaugural Religious Freedom Roundtable, said he was fearful for religious freedom and tolerance in Australia. “Members of the Islamic community are sometimes the victims of suspicion and hostility directed against them by those ign
Trump's thinly veiled Muslim ban violates constitutional prohibitions against religious discrimination.
China published a "human rights report" on Friday finding the United States responsible for a wide variety of atrocities.
Tim Soutphommasane also decries lack of non-Anglo faces on TV, after criticism levelled at Waleed Aly’s Logies nomination
Trump's thinly veiled Muslim ban violates constitutional prohibitions against religious discrimination.
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A poll found that the vast majority of Muslim Americans say they are loyal to their country and optimistic about the future, even if they experience more discrimination.
Tommy Robinson, lately the cause cAclA"bre of the so-called â?oalt-rightâ??, isnâ?Tt the only person to rally a small band of fundamental libertarians, fruitcakes and closet racists behind him while the public looks on in despair. Whoâ?Ts the other one? Step forward Boris Johnson. Who else? This week, even the Prime Minister was moved to call on the ex-foreign secretary to apologise for
17 posts published by Andrea James, Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder, Seamus Bellamy, Gina Loukareas, Rob Beschizza, Sean O'Brien, Futility Closet, and Boing Boing's Shop on August 14, 2018
Adam Saleh just wanted to get home to New York City. Instead, he claims, he was ejected from a his Delta Airlines flight, simply for speaking Arabic.
A class action lawsuit against the network and its sister companies could widen after the plaintiffs filed a motion to amend the complaint.
"Facebook didn't respond properly to alleged discrimination at the North Carolina facility, which the plaintiffs say took place over a three-year period."
The video says 'Jihadis' will soon take revenge for the demolition of Babri Mosque and atrocities on Muslims in Kashmir.
Former CVS Pharmacy store detectives claimed that their bosses instructed them to racially profile customers. The former employees also alleged that they were similarly subjected to racial discrimination.
The network was sued by an employee who says he was passed over for promotions because of his race and complaints to HR about discrimination.
Homosexual activism is advancing on a number of fronts at the United Nations these days, including a call by one group to prohibit the media from publishing "discriminatory" content – which critics are calling an outright attack on the First Amendment right to a free press. This, as well as other related controversies, are embroiling…
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Limited data are available on the prevalence and patterns of body weight discrimination from representative samples. This study examined experiences of weight/height discrimination in a nationally representative sample of US adults and compared their prevalence and patterns with discrimination experiences based on race and gender. Data were from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, a 1995–1996 community-based survey of English-speaking adults aged 25–74 (N
In a new Northwestern University meta-analysis, the largest and most comprehensive of its kind, researchers aiming to assess trends in hiring discrimination in America against African-Americans and Latinos found no change in rates of discrimination against African-Americans in field experiments of hiring from 1990 to 2015. The meta-analysis documents persistence of racial discrimination in US labor markets.
Efforts to end discrimination against minorities must grapple with the shifting landscape of how people understand racial bias.
The jobless rate for African-Americans persists regardless of their level of educational attainment, when compared with whites. Racial discrimination factors into company decisions, resulting in ... Read more
A majority of white Americans now believe that white people experience racial discrimination, and memes like #ItsOkayToBeWhite are only fanning the flames.
A new meta-analysis on hiring discrimination by Northwestern University sociologist Lincoln Quillian and his colleagues finds evidence of pervasive hiring discrimination against all nonwhite groups in all nine countries they examined. Yet some countries discriminate more than others -- and certain laws and institutional practices might explain why.
The jobless rate for African-Americans persists regardless of their level of educational attainment, when compared with whites. Racial discrimination factors into company decisions, resulting in racial gaps in the labor force—these were the focus of two recent news articles.
A new meta-analysis on hiring discrimination by Northwestern University sociologist Lincoln Quillian and his colleagues finds evidence of pervasive hiring discrimination against all nonwhite groups in all nine countries they examined. Yet some countries discriminate more than others—and certain laws and institutional practices might explain why. The study published in Sociological Science today.
Americans overwhelmingly agree that discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, or gender is wrong — whether it is the politically correct version that discriminates against whites, and often Asians (particularly in college admissions), by ...
Marginalized groups said that they had experienced discrimination at the workplace, at the doctor and with the police.
RICE (US) — A new study finds 18 percent of blacks and 4 percent of …
In the late 1980s, researchers across the United States began reporting a link between discrimination against African Americans and poor cardiovascular
For many white Americans, racial progress signifies anti-white racism.
Liberal site Vox.com published an article today analyzing white evangelical Christians' "blind spot" on racial discrimination.
A racialized society is a society where socioeconomic inequality, residential segregation and low intermarriage rates are the norm, where humans’ definitions of personal identity and choices of intimate relationships reveal racial distinctiveness.
It's not just hurting you.
Suppose the management of a large corporation (call it Texaco) discriminates against blacks in hiring and promotion. Who are the victims of that...
In response to claims of sustained racial abuse against the two percent of black students who attend the Visalia Unified School District, the ACLU of Northern California has filed a discrimination complaint against the district in court. <meta property=
(Reuters Health) - Discrimination against the overweight may be about as prevalent as racial discrimination, the results of a survey of U.S. adults suggest.
Race Forward Releases New Report On Racial Bias In The 21st Century Workplace
(Reuters Health) - Discrimination against the overweight may be about as prevalent as racial discrimination, the results of a survey of U.S. adults suggest.
American adolescents tend to have more success in school if their parents instill in them a sense of racial pride, reducing their vulnerability to the ... Read more
There's a growing body of evidence on how racism negatively affects the health of black communities, both mentally and physically.
Think about the last time you left the house. Did strangers on the street acknowledge your presence with a smile, or avert their glance? Chances are that the answer depended on your age, gender, and, of course, your race.There is no shortage of evidence that racism persists. Despite the fact that science has demonstrated that racial groups are defined by society rather than biology, an individual’...
African American adolescents tend to have more success in school if their parents instill in them a sense of racial pride, reducing their vulnerability to the effects of racial discrimination from teachers and peers.
There is no shortage of evidence that racism persists. Despite the fact that science has demonstrated that racial groups are defined by society rather than biology, an individual’s experience from the moment they are born is colored by the color of their
Feeling like the target of discrimination may increase a person's odds of harmful behaviors like smoking, eating fatty foods and getting less sleep, a study of African-Americans suggests.
Unlike race and racial identity, the social, political and economic meanings of race, or rather belonging to particular racial groups, have not been fluid.
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Imams preach jihad and extremism in 10 percent of the 2,000 mosques in the United States, the FBI estimates.That sums up the problem facing us as we ponder the meaning of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan s slayings of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas. Given his association with a...
The pilgrims will be there as midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity is again broadcast live around the world this Christmas Eve — but the town of...
Your guide to the scandal rocking French beaches.
The Ground Zero mosque project gets a face-lift -- but the terror ties remain.
Charles Jacobs writes: Only I was cited as a critic of the Islamic Society of Boston, whose Cambridge mosque was attended by at least one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers (“Praying for peace — and understanding,” Page A1, April 27). In fact there have been others who have recognized the radical nature of the mosque leadership.
When a non-Muslim American can open and operate a strip joint in Mecca, a pork store in Islamabad or a gay bar in Tehran — with the full cooperation of...
The failure to provide for postwar needs has deepened distrust of US intentions.
A proposed Islamic center near ground zero is slowly being embraced by some Muslims who initially were indifferent about the plan, partly in response to a sense that their faith is under attack....
Browse Muslims news, research and analysis from The Conversation
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PM Naftali Bennett gives Israeli forces the green light to curb attacks after Palestinian kills three men in Tel Aviv.
TORONTO - Mosques across Canada have increasingly had to ask congregants to stay vigilant against potential attacks and harassment during the holy mon...
Keeping alive the memory of the many victims in France of Muslim murderers.
Pardeep Kaleka spent several days after 9/11 at his father's South Milwaukee gas station, fearing that his family would be targeted by people who assumed they were Muslim.
The Boards response came after Farha Anwar Hussain Shaikh, a Pune resident, moved the Supreme Court seeking to declare the prohibition on Muslim women from entering mosques as illegal.
Owen Jones: The Charlie Hebdo killers want to provoke anti-Islam sentiment among the public, just as Anders Breivik did. But France must resist
A new foundation will be created to help finance mosques in France and keep out radical benefactors.
COVID-19 has led to a rise in Islamophobia, with fake news and racist memes shared online, new research finds.
Emotions flare as activists on both sides hold rallies
Forget the misinformed pundits on TV. In a new documentary, Muslim women explain their faith and why they wear the hijab.
Cynics will say that Oslo was jealous that Copenhagen, Denmark, scored a visit from President Obama, and giving him a Nobel was the only way to get him to Norway.
Millions of Muslim pilgrims converged Wednesday on the holy city of Mecca in preparation for the hajj pilgrimage, many of them praying for unity in the Islamic world at a time of turmoil.
Personnel from Eglin Air Force Base were deployed to Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona to assist staff with COVID-19 patients.
We hear a lot about "Islamophobia" today. When anyone suggests the world has a problem with radical Islamic terrorism, you can count on a barrage of invectives and name-calling. But what is "Islamophobia"? Obviously, it's a made-up term designed to stifle free and open debate. But if we take it apart, it means "fear of…
A Massachusetts school district has apologized to parents after a group of school children participated in midday Muslim prayers during a field trip to a Boston-area mosque.
Both President Erdogan and Prime Minister Davutoglu are driven by deep-seated religious ideology and spew poisonous anti-Israel rhetoric. Only under new leadership, can Turkey be allowed in the European Union.
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A note from the cabinet said that the move will ensure their development in health, cultural identity, education, financial inclusion, skill development and women empowerment.
Neither Hungary nor Myanmar have a ‘Muslim population’ problem.
What took so long?
All too many people in the Middle East believe that America and its military are anti-Muslim. To make matters worse, terrorist organizations like ISIS
The policy isn't a complete reversal of Obama era Cuba positions, however
Michigan has one of the largest concentrations of Muslims in the US, and Bernie Sanders enjoys wide support among them.
The Capitol Hill hearings on the radicalization of Muslims plays on the community's worst fears about stereotyping. It's those fears that were at the center of a recent landmark court case involving 40 Muslims who were detained at the Canada-U.S. border upon return from a conference.
Results from a large-scale, real-world intervention study to increase harmony.
<span class=s1>He says he loves “the Muslims,” but he’s not morally obligated to defend President Obama because Obama would never defend him.</span>
Despite frequent protests from many white working-class Trump supporters that racism and discrimination weren't reasons they supported Trump, several studies say otherwise.
Building houses of worship or burying our dead used to be a lot easier, but now we face rarely used regulatory hurdles that suddenly emerge out of the woodwork
In one-on-one conversations, we've found that many Muslim children do not feel accepted in their American communities. Be an ally to them.
The State Department is paying out thousands of dollars to the Queer Muslim project.
Fellowships for young Muslim artists to be decided by committee including actors Mahershala Ali and Ramy Youssef.
Recently on cable news a little boy appeared to execute two men in Syria. Beside him a...
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A stronger Muslim identity derived from a proven model is the best defense against extremism.
Islamophobia is a hateful ideology, one that relies on the murkiness of historical bloodshed to provide a fig leaf for contemporary injustices, writes...
<p><strong>Tahir Alam:</strong> The Muslim Council of Britain's new guidelines for schools can help pupils to feel fully and equally valued.</p>
We would really appreciate a “don’t worry we’ll see this through” — not a “ don’t worry, you’re being paranoid”. So, the next time you see an anxious Muslim, by all means tell him/her they do not need to feel anxious. But please do so as an assurance, not a retort. Empathy is the need of the hour.
Opposition-ruled state backs lashes for preachers seeking to convert Muslims.
Those of us who join both celebrations know the promise—and the challenge—of a shared struggle.
A poster campaign by Germany's Interior Ministry to advertise a hotline for those worried that a friend or family member may be turning to radical Islam has incensed some Muslims who say it stigmatizes them.
Keeping in view of the procession, the police maintained tight security arrangements in the route
U.S. a nation of Islamophobes? Hardly [Blowback]
It was bad enough when Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the country. But it's worse now. He's accusing American Muslims of harboring terrorists.
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