Tag: Islamophobia
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Three Palestinian students studying in US shot for wearing keffiyah
Three Palestinian students were shot for wearing their country’s traditional keffiyeh scarves in Vermont, USA. The three boys – identified as Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdel Hamid and Tahseen Ahmed – were in Burlington for Thanksgiving holidays when they were targeted and injured, leaving one critically wounded. The victims, aged 20, were students of Harvard University,…
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Islamophobic Dutch leader Geert Wilders seeks to form government after election victory
Far-right populist leader Geert Wilders is all set to form a coalition government after a dramatic election victory.Geert is openly anti-Islam and anti-EU, with aims to take the country out of the Union and banning the Quran. He also wants restrictions on asylum and immigration. Against all predictions, Wilders’ party PVV won 37 out of…
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Former US diplomat charged with hate crime over Islamophobic comments
Security advisor to former president Barack Obama, Stuart Seldowitz, who was recorded on video spewing Islamophobic slurs at a halal food vendor in Manhattan, has now been arrested and is facing multiple charges. The New York Police Department has reportedly charged Seldowitz with “aggravated harassment in the second degree, harassment, hate crime/stalking, stalking to cause…
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BBC edits out multiple calls for ceasefire during Scottish BAFTA awards
At the Scottish Bafta awards, multiple actors who took the stage to call for a ceasefire were edited out by the BBC, sparking criticism from audiences. An exclusive piece written by The National reveals that the media giant edited out the producers of ‘A Long Winter’ who won the award for Best Short Film And…
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BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh bans halal products
Authorities in India’s most populous Indian state Uttar Pradesh have banned the distribution and sale of Halal-certified products. These include dairy products, garments and medicines. A notificaton from the state government proclaims that the halal certification of the products is illegal. Uttar Pradesh, or UP as it is commonly called, is ruled by firebrand right-wing…
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Muslim dating app ‘Muzz App’ offers to pay legal fee of woman detained for calling Rishi Sunak coconut
A woman in England went viral on social media when she was spotted at a pro-Palestine protest in London with a poster that labelled British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and now-sacked Home Secretary Suella Braverman ‘coconuts.’ She was arrested by the Met Police and charged with passing ‘hateful remarks’. Coconut, commonly used by people of…
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‘Do you condemn Monday to Thursday?’: Twitter in fits over Israeli propaganda in Gaza hospital
Yesterday, Israeli forces invaded Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza and claimed to have found evidence of Hamas hiding in the basement by showing a chart paper with Arabic written on it. Israel’s propaganda team said the chart paper carried names of Hamas members. However , the internet was quick to point out, the paper was…
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‘Disgusted’: Timothee Chalamet’s Hamas joke on Saturday Night Live has social media outraged
Hollywood actor Timothee Chalamet guest starred on popular comedy show ‘Saturday Night Live’ in a skit mocking the genocide in Gaza. Social media users were outraged at a clip in which Timothee plays a man who is ready to commit suicide and has a band called Hamas. A member of ‘Please Don’t Destroy’ then tells…
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Pro-Palestinian students, protest groups suppressed in American schools, universities
Three separate cases of suppression of pro-Palestinian students and groups have been reported in America in just one day as voices are raised higher against the genocide of Gaza. Israeli tanks have forced citizens of Northern Gaza to walk countless miles towards the South with their hands in the air, a scene that has been…
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Petition filed in Indian High Court claims Shah Jehan didn’t build Taj Mahal
A petition filed in the Indian High Court on November 2 by Surjit Singh Yadav, the president of the Hindu Sena, claims that the Taj Mahal wasn’t built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan. According to India Today, Yadav asserted that the monument was originally the palace of Raja Man Singh which was refurbished by the…