Word: islamophobia
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...said he was dismayed at the particular insensitivity of the Daily Illini towards Islamic concerns. “They did not use as much careful consideration as they might have with a cartoon depicting African-Americans or the Jewish community,” Mujahid said. “Islamophobia and anti-Semitism both show a degree of hate, but somehow the media continuously takes Islamophobia to be something okay.” Junaid M. Afeef, Gorton’s attorney and a founding member of the Muslim Bar Association in Illinois, said that he felt the publisher?...
...fact remains that many students on campus were hurt that a dean would insinuate that they were a danger to others. This insinuation is inexcusable. To intimate that Muslim students would become violent and act in barbaric ways has left them more vulnerable in a time of growing Islamophobia, a time when they are most in need of support...
...Islamophobia exists and it is very real; worse, it is growing. The administration needs to show more sensitivity to students who are becoming more vulnerable to attacks and harassment. Many Muslim students on campus were disappointed by the Salient’s decision to reprint the Danish cartoons. But Dean Kidd’s email to the Salient has deeply offended many. After being directly associated with violence by the Salient, the students would have appreciated an expression of concern for their safety by the administration in case they themselves became targets of violence. What they got instead...
...anti-Semitism - an idea Leblanc's fictive assault was built upon - is itself a sign of racism. "Anti-Semitism is extremely serious, but when it's discussed today, it's Muslims who fall under suspicion," protests Kamel Kabtane, president of the Rhône-Alps Regional Muslim Council. "Rampant Islamophobia now in France leads everyone to blame the Muslim community." Michel Wieviorka, director of the Center for Sociological Analysis and Intervention, a research lab in Paris, agrees that non-Jews suffer less dramatic but more common discrimination, encountering "overt racism as well as daily prejudice. Acts of discrimination - from being...
...most powerful opposition force in Egyptian politics - which supports the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves in public schools, something France won't allow. Europe has a long way to go before Islam is just another faith. But a young generation of Muslims is speaking out - against racism, Islamophobia and Islam's own rigidities. Here are four of this generation's most compelling voices. THE ACTIVIST Dyab Abou Jahjah, 31, Belgium The Belgian government picked a fight with the wrong man. Lebanese-born political activist Dyab Abou Jahjah is charismatic, good-looking, articulate and brash - and he may have...