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U.S. SHOULD APPOINT ISLAMOPHOBIA ENVOY LIKE CANADA
From Georgetown University By Arsalan Iftikhar | February 2, 2023 In January 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would appoint Amira Elghawaby to become Canada’s first special representative for combating Islamophobia to tackle racism, discrimination and religious intolerance faced by millions … Continue reading
WESTERN DOUBLE STANDARDS & 2022 FIFA QATAR WORLD CUP
From Georgetown University Professor Edward Said- the author of the 1978 book Orientalism– once wrote that, “I have not been able to discover any period in European or American history since the Middle Ages in which Islam was generally discussed or thought … Continue reading
INDIA’S 2022 ANTI-MUSLIM YEARBOOK: BOLLYWOOD BIGOTRY & HIJAB BANS
From Georgetown University By Arsalan Iftikhar | November 7, 2022 India’s movie industry known as “Bollywood” has cemented itself as the world’s leading film market when it comes to selling seats (2 billion tickets sold annually). Even though India’s most famous Bollywood … Continue reading
PLEASE DON’T LET ISLAMOPHOBIA CO-OPT HIJAB PROTESTS
From Georgetown University In my nearly two decades as an international human rights lawyer, I have rarely seen stranger political bedfellows than watching anti-Muslim forces cheering pro-democracy Iranians in the wake of the horrific murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by … Continue reading
REPORT: MUSLIMS REPRESENT ONLY 1% OF HOLLYWOOD TV ROLES
From Georgetown University By Arsalan Iftikhar | October 4, 2022 Even though the world’s 1.9 billion Muslims currently represent nearly one-fourth (24%) of the world’s nearly 8 billion person population today, a recent September 2022 report from the University of Southern California’s … Continue reading
“COVID-19’S IMPACT ON PERSECUTED MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE”
From Georgetown University by Arsalan Iftikhar | April 20, 2020 The current coronavirus pandemic has forced our entire human race to adjust to a “new normal” of quarantine lifestyles around the globe. At the same time, we must not forget … Continue reading
“CHRISTCHURCH ANNIVERSARY: THE ISLAMOPHOBIC ‘GREAT REPLACEMENT’ THEORY”
From Georgetown University by Arsalan Iftikhar | March 14, 2020 On March 15, 2019, a 29-year-old white supremacist walked into two different mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand and live-streamed his mass murder of 51 Muslim worshippers in the bloodiest act of … Continue reading
“MUSLIMS IN MODI’S INDIA: WHAT WOULD GANDHI SAY?”
From Georgetown University by Arsalan Iftikhar | Published on 03 Mar 2020 “I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew– and so are all of you,” the father of India Mohandas Gandhi once allegedly told some of his … Continue reading
STUDY: MUSLIM STUDENTS GRADUATE AT TOP OF PLURALISM SCALE
From Georgetown University by Arsalan Iftikhar | February 11, 2020 In a time when societal polarization seeks to demonize populations on racial, ethnic, religious and/or sociopolitical lines, many people today are looking towards our younger generations to ameliorate some of … Continue reading
WORLD COURT: MYANMAR’S ROHINGYA MUSLIM GENOCIDE MUST END
From Georgetown University by Arsalan Iftikhar | January 24, 2020 On January 23, 2020, the International Court of Justice (the World Court) issued a 28-page ruling against the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) for their genocidal ethnic cleansing … Continue reading
