Tag: Xenophobia
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Germany faces storm as xenophobic, anti-Muslim sentiments surge
A recent study from Leipzig University has uncovered a surge in xenophobic and anti-Muslim sentiment across Germany, raising alarms about the country’s social cohesion and democratic stability. The study conducted by Professors Oliver Decker and Ayline Heller reveals a notable 4.8 percentage point rise in support for xenophobic views since 2022, now representing 21.8% of […]
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Dutch Olympian wins kudos for donning hijab to collect gold medal
Sifan Hassan, the winner of the women’s marathon at the Olympics ignited global praise after defiantly wearing a hijab at her medal ceremony. Netherlands’ Muslim athlete Sifan Hassan earned global acclaim after receiving her gold medal at the final 2024 Paris Olympic Games ceremony on Sunday, August 11, while wearing a hijab, in a defiant […]
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UN committee slams UK over racism, incitement affecting minorities
UN committee condemned the repeated racist acts in UK targeting ethnic minorities, migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, highlighting the UK as a growing hotspot for racial tension. The United Nations committee responsible for combating racism has criticized the United Kingdom over continuing hate crimes, hate speech and xenophobic incidents, following riots fueled by hate and […]
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‘Unlivable’: French-Algerians dream of a new life in Algeria to escape Islamophobia
People of Algerian descent in France contemplate crossing the Mediterranean for a one-way trip away from racism Souad is preparing to move to Algiers in a few months. The 45-year-old French-Algerian woman, a legal assistant living in Lyon, has chosen her parents’ country to start a new life with her 12-year-old son. “The bad atmosphere […]
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Postures of Disbelief: Secularism and Postcolonialism in Tabish Khair’s Novel
Article by Emad Mirmotahari. Published in College Literature. In this essay the author explores the place of secularism in Tabish Khair’s novel, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position. More specifically, it is argued that the novel’s narrator, a secular Muslim academic in Denmark, harbors a particular kind of secularism that is explicitly hostile to Islam, a hostility that is borne, in large part, from anxieties about terrorism and xenophobia.
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The Muslim: Islamophobia as Disembodiment
Article by Ipsita Chatterjee. Published in Culture and Religion. Islamophobia is not just a fear of people ascribing to the religion of Islam, if that was the case simple religious conversions would erase hatred. In the world of surging Alt-Right movements, Islamophobia embodies racism, anti-migrant xenophobia, and orientalism. This article explores Alt-Right groups in the US and Europe, traces their ideological gurus, deconstructs political speeches, reports of rightwing think tanks to understand how Islamophobia is a process of disembodiment. Inspired by Bourdieu’s habitus, and feminist work on embodiment/disembodiment, this article argues that the Muslim narrative thoroughly disembodies the Muslim body.
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2019 data shows racism on the rise in Switzerland
Switzerland documented a record 352 cases of discrimination in 2019, reflecting an increase in racist acts in public places and attacks spurred by far-right ideologies. Xenophobia was the main driver for racist behavior. Black and Muslim people are the worst affected, with 132 and 55 cases respectively registered by counselling centres in 2019. The number of cases […]
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European Jewish and Muslim leaders agree to work together against rising xenophobia
Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe are confronted with rising xenophobia, hate crimes, and policies that are curtailing their right to religious practices, leaders of these communities said at the first plenary meeting of the European Muslim Jewish Leadership Council (MJLC) in Amsterdam on Tuesday. Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt of Moscow speaks at the first meeting of […]
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Pope: “Muslim terrorism does not exist”
As the world grapples with the impact of President Trump’s Muslim ban, Pope Francis stressed that no religion is terrorist, adding that the claimed “Muslim terrorism” does not exist. “Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist,” the pontiff said in a welcome letter read aloud at a meeting […]