#islamophobia

#islamophobia

Laura Loomer spends nearly twenty hours a day online. She posts endlessly, accusing a range of figures in government and elsewhere of misdeeds and disloyalty. She is the ultimate influencer. She has the ear of Donald Trump. It is not uncommon for her screeds to result in firings or policy changes. She is so ubiquitous in Washington that her name has become its own verb. To be "Loomered" is to be, in some way or another, destroyed.

A leading Muslim civil rights group in the US applauded Monday as the Trump administration's agreement to release British pro-Palestinian commentator Sami Hamdi acknowledged that he is not "a danger to the community or to national security," after he was held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention for more than two weeks. Hamdi's family and the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been representing the journalist, expressed relief

Zohran Mamdani's election was not as surprising as his primary win in June, and since then, Republicans have had time to adjust to the idea of a young, charismatic idol espousing a new and exciting message for the Democratic Party. On Tuesday and Wednesday, though, instead of responding with new policy ideas to excite their own base, they mostly responded by returning to old territory: bald, ugly Islamophobia.

There were 7,164 such offences recorded by forces across the two nations excluding the Metropolitan Police in the year to March, up three per cent from 6,973 in the previous 12 months. Ministers said anti-Muslim hatred was up by 19 per cent, noting a spike in offences after the Southport murders of two girls last summer and the riots which followed across several English towns and cities.

The newborn daughter of a British MP was the target of utterly depraved and sexist online abuse hours after her birth, her father has told the Guardian. The independent MP Adnan Hussain, who won his Blackburn seat in 2024 running on a pro-Gaza stance, said he and his newborn were subject to vile abuse after he posted a pixelated picture of her on X.

The arrests came days after French prosecutors said foreign interference was probably to blame for a spate of provocative acts that had targeted Jewish and Muslim sites in France in recent years, as tensions run high over the war in Gaza. French officials have previously said they were investigating Russia's role in destabilising operations that have stoked social tensions and sown division in France. On Monday, Serbia's interior ministry said the 11 people arrested were Serbian nationals.

The Ukrainian national was 37. He was convicted at the Old Bailey in October 2013 of murdering Muslim man Mohammed Saleem, 82, in April of that year. Saleem was a pillar of the local community who was on his way home from evening prayers at the mosque when Lapshyn stabbed him three times in the back and stamped on his head.

In an address to the UN general assembly, Trump said: I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it's been changed, it's been so changed. Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can't do that. The development will cause further discomfort in No 10 after Trump was last week honoured with an unprecedented second state visit to the UK.

In a rare admission on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is facing isolation on the world stage after nearly two years of its genocide in Gaza - but didn't acknowledge his own government's role in the situation. At the "Fifty States - One Israel" economic conference hosted by Israel's Finance Ministry, Netanyahu blamed foreign countries and Muslims for Israel's isolation.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, 42, most commonly known as Tommy Robinson, is a British far-right activist who organised the Unite the Kingdom march in London on 13 September. After losing his job as an engineering apprentice for assaulting a police officer, Robinson moved into activism in 2009 by founding the English Defence League (EDL), an Islamophobic organisation forged in the football terraces in Luton before spreading nationally.

I was so hurt, said the 33-year-old electrical engineer, who requested Al Jazeera use a pseudonym. It was so close to home. My local masjid [mosque]. It felt like a real kick in the teeth.

Since 2021, the Islamic Council of Victoria received 96 reports of Islamophobia incidents, with 26 reported in just six months from January to July this year.

A local authority in south-east Spain, Jumilla, has banned Muslims from using public facilities for celebrating Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, citing identity concerns.

Kathy Hochul wore a headscarf to honor fallen Muslim officer Didarul Islam at his funeral and criticized Ted Cruz for mocking her respectful gesture.

On 7 July 2005, three bombs exploded on the London transport network, killing 52 people. The atmosphere was tense as the community grappled with the tragedy.

The people of the Democratic primary have spoken, and I accept the results. I have profound differences of opinion with Assemblymember Mamdani, but we had a mutually respectful conversation.

Erdogan condemned a cartoon depicting prophets Muhammad and Moses as a vile provocation, amplifying outrage among religious conservatives and leading to four cartoonists' arrests.

In one America, a young man with progressive politics triumphed over the establishment; in another, racism and Islamophobia surged in response to his win.