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Float planned for N.Y.C. India Day Parade is condemned as anti-Muslim The float, slated for inclusion in Sunday’s parade, depicts a Hindu temple in India that was built on the site of a mosque torn down by religious extremists.

August 15, 2024 Liam Stack and Anusha Bayya

(NY Times) A float slated to appear in New York City’s India Day Parade this weekend is causing an uproar, with community groups calling it a symbol of anti-Muslim hate, parade organizers defending its inclusion and elected officials scrambling to respond. The […]

Moment Muslim activists storm Birmingham screening of controversial Bollywood film about Islamic State

May 22, 2023 Kit Heren

(LBC) This is the moment Muslim activists in Birmingham stormed the screening of an “extremist” film about the Islamic State in an attempt to shut it down. Protesters led by Shakeel Afsar, who also campaigned to block a school in Birmingham from […]

Religious polarization in India seeping into US diaspora

October 16, 2022 Deepa Bharath and Mariam Fam

(AP) In Edison, New Jersey, a bulldozer, which has become a symbol of oppression of India’s Muslim minority, rolled down the street during a parade marking that country’s Independence Day. At an event in Anaheim, California, a shouting match erupted between people […]

American Islamists push blasphemy narrative in India’s prophet controversy

June 17, 2022 Abha Shankar

(IPT) Deadly riots broke out in several Indian cities June 10 over perceived blasphemous remarks by a spokeswoman for India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Enraged Islamist mobs burned posters and hanged effigies of Nupur Sharma after Jummah prayers over her controversial […]

CAIR urges Georgetown University to probe student complaints of Islamophobia Following multiple student reports of a professor's Islamophobic remarks in the classroom, CAIR is calling on Georgetown University to investigate.

March 19, 2022 Brooke Anderson

(New Arab) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on Georgetown University Law Center to look into student claims of Islamophobia by a law professor. In a letter to the law school this week, CAIR Maryland director Zainab Chaudry wrote that they […]

Congress members demand Facebook take steps to ‘eradicate’ anti-Muslim bias Lawmakers issue a list of demands for Facebook, including creating a working group that addresses anti-Muslim bigotry and hate groups

December 15, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Middle East Eye) A group of 30 Democratic members of Congress on Tuesday sent a letter to Facebook criticising the social media giant for allowing anti-Muslim sentiments to spread on its platform, and are demanding it takes concrete steps to “eradicate anti-Muslim […]

Biden campaign urged to remove ‘Modi supporter’ as Muslim outreach coordinator Middle East Eye understands that Joe Biden's presidential campaign is desperate to find new outreach coordinator to help secure Muslim vote

March 6, 2020 Azad Essa

(Middle East Eye) Pressure is mounting on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign to replace its Muslim outreach manager following revelations he has strong connections with India’s right-wing Hindu government. Sources have told Middle East Eye that the Biden campaign is scrambling to find […]

In battle for the Muslim vote, Sanders destroys the competition: poll Amid massive voter turnout of Muslim-Americans, Bernie Sanders takes the Muslim vote in landslide, recent CAIR survey shows

March 6, 2020 Sheren Khalel

(Middle East Eye) US presidential candidates made unprecedented efforts to court the Muslim vote in the lead-up to Super Tuesday, but according to a recent poll, Bernie Sanders won that battle in a landslide. Sanders took 58 percent of the overall Muslim […]

American Islamists’ double standards on Kashmir

August 27, 2019 Abha Shankar

(IPT) American Islamists pushed alarmist rhetoric and double standards following the Indian ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)’s recent action ending autonomy for the Indian portion of Jammu and Kashmir. The Himalayan Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir has been a source of […]