Muslims in Denmark are bracing for a series of cruel, dehumanizing laws that will further push them to the outskirts of Danish society. The New York Times reports that the government is preparing to introduce a set of laws that “regulate life in 25 low-income and heavily Muslim enclaves” and force Muslims to erase…
On Wednesday night, Donald Trump will host an iftar dinner at the White House in commemoration of Ramadan, a holy month of fasting in the Islamic calendar. On behalf of us Muslims everywhere, I’d like to RSVP ‘fuck no’.
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump Administration’s request for a stay in a federal court’s decision that would have allowed some 24,000 pre-sponsored and pre-approved refugees to resettle in America. The decision means that, until further notice, refugees still abroad—many who already have adoptive families…
Days after the Supreme Court restored parts of the Muslim ban, the Trump administration has placed additional restrictions on visa applicants from six Muslim-majority countries.
A 17-year-old Muslim girl identified as Nabra was kidnapped and beaten to death early Sunday morning in Sterling, Virginia. She was reported as missing at roughly 4 a.m. and now police believe they have found her body in a pond.
In the early hours of Monday morning, a van plowed into pedestrians leaving the Finsbury Park mosque in North London. There have been several casualties, and the police have made one arrest.
On Monday, the three judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals passed a unanimous decision to continue to block the Trump administration’s revised travel ban, which barred individuals from six Muslim-majority countries for 90 days and refugees for 120 days. The ruling comes less than one month after the 4th Circuit…
Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins (R-3rd District), a former Sheriff’s captain often flatteringly referred to as the “Cajun John Wayne,” recently urged the United States to “identity” [sic] and extrajudicially murder every “radicalized Islamic suspect.” In other news, the Islamic State’s campaign for a global holy war seems…
On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for 4th Circuit on Thursday upheld the injunction against Donald Trump’s revised travel ban against six Muslim-majority nations, calling it unconstitutional.
On May 7, France will vote in a runoff election between far-right Islamophobic Holocaust revisionist Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old business-friendly centrist who served as economy minister in President Hollande’s astoundingly unpopular administration.
Numerous administration officials have reported that national security aide Sebastian Gorka will leave his position at the White House. He is not likely to remain a part of the current administration.
Republican Congressman Steve King is basically one step away from parading through Iowa with a big white hood and burning a cross on his lawn. On Sunday, the Republican tweeted support for Islamophobic Dutch politician Geert Wilders, writing, “we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
After United Stated federal courts struck down Donald Trump’s flagrantly xenophobic travel ban, he threw a hissy fit on Twitter—“I’ll see you in court!” he threatened, bafflingly—and set about revising it. But so far, the new draft targets the same seven, primarily-Muslim countries.
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Ever since Donald Trump signed the xenophobic travel ban that has wreaked devastating effects on immigrant and refugee travelers, the country has erupted in a spectrum of protests. The Museum of Modern Art is participating by shelving some of its most iconic Western pieces and replacing them with work by Iranian,…
An attorney for the U.S. government told a federal court on Friday that over 100,000 people had their visas revoked after the White House banned travel from seven majority-Muslim countries, NBC News reports.
Reuters reports that the Trump administration is planning to reframe CVE, or the “Countering Violent Extremism” program, to solely focus on Islamist extremism. According to sources briefed on the matter, this means that the program would no longer target, say, white supremacists, another victory in a long series of…
San Francisco filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Trump’s executive orders targeting funding for sanctuary cities.
As protests mount across the UK in reaction to Trump’s Muslim ban, a petition to prevent Trump from making an official state visit recently reached over 1.25 million signatures, many times over the amount needed to trigger a debate in Parliament. Although Downing Street confirmed that Prime Minister Theresa May would…
The xenophobic, Islamophobic travel ban introduced this weekend was implemented hastily, with seemingly little forethought. And in the midst of the fear and chaos, it became clear that no provision had been made for U.S. permanent residents, aka green-card holders. After much bumbling, Department of Homeland Security…
