Still reeling from the after effects of a long-standing civil war Sri Lanka seems poised for yet another, this time with another face attributed to the enemy – the minority (9%) Muslim population of the island. Read More »
Pamella Geller and her fellow Islamophobes made headlines a few weeks ago with their vitriolic anti-Muslim advertisements in NYC subway stations and else where. Their message equated Muslims to “savages” and “jihad” to terrorism. To respond to this bigotry , a remarkable group of Christians and Jews have started a ... Read More »
Max Blumenthal is a writing fellow for the Nation Institute and author of the bestselling book Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party (Nation Books). This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. Max Blumenthal: Meet the Bizarre Cabal Behind an Increasingly Paranoid Crusade Nine years after 9/11, hysteria about ... Read More »
MPs expressed concern tonight after it emerged that far-right activists are planning to step up their provocative street campaign by targeting some of the UK's highest-profile Muslim communities, raising fears of widespread unrest this summer. Undercover footage shot by the Guardian reveals the English Defence League, which has staged a ... Read More »
Islamophobic pundits link Islam to terrorism, claiming the former causes the latter. Yet this argument is based on faulty science. The reality is that it is occupation--not Islam--that breeds terrorism. Read More »
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