#islamophobia

#islamophobia

Home Office guidance says mosques should apply for security measures provided for free by the Home Office if they have experienced or feel vulnerable to hate crime, of if there has been hate crime in the area towards other places of worship or their congregants. However, it advises applicants to provide detailed evidence of incidents, such as graffiti, or police reports, saying that applications that do not include strong evidence are unlikely to be successful.

Democrats are calling for the censure or even resignation of Randy Fine, a Florida congressman known for his inflammatory rhetoric, after he wrote particularly Islamophobic social media post last weekend. But other than one retiring Republican Congressman, the GOP has largely been silent on the matter. On Sunday, Fine wrote a post on X indicating that he preferred dogs to Muslims. "If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one," he said.

Many Australians who happen to be born into Muslim or Jewish families and once considered their faith a private matter, have experienced the personal consequences of hate speech from slights and abusive language to physical threats mosques, synagogues and schools guarded yet still graffitied, cars torched, pig's heads left at their doors, jobs lost, opportunities denied. It has left many feeling that their place in this proudly multicultural country is conditional,

The firestorm began on Sunday when Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) responded to a sarcastic social media post by Palestinian American activist Nerdeen Kiswani, who jokingly suggested that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's election meant that "NYC is coming to Islam," and it was time to consider banning dogs as pets because "like we've said all along, they are unclean." "If they force us to choose," Fine wrote, "the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one."

If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,

Threats and hate speech against Muslim Australians have surged in the wake of the Bondi beach attack, with one mosque receiving dozens of offensive phone calls and reports of people being targeted in the street. As Australia's Jewish community deals with trauma from the attack that killed 15 people at a Hanukah event, religious leaders say societal and political divisions has led to other groups being targeted by hatred.

To survive a school shooting is traumatic enough, but to then face a nationwide racist smear campaign that falsely accuses you of being the murderer is even worse. That was the fate of Mustapha Kharbouch, a queer Palestinian student at Brown University. While mourning his fellow students, Kharbouch found himself confronting false accusations. Across social media, attempts by the university to protect his privacy were painted as proof of guilt.

Some members have even floated raising the threshold for censure - a rebuke that is supposed to carry significant weight but has been watered down by its growing use in recent years. Fine's effort would almost certainly fail because expulsion requires a two-thirds vote in the House. If all Republicans vote to expel Omar, roughly 85 Democrats would need to join them.

In response to the horrific antisemitic terror attack in Sydney, Australia, Paladino wrote on Sunday that the world is experiencing a global jihad and argued that governments should begin expelling Muslims or imposing severe sanctions on them within Western countries. She also called for the development of a legal framework for denaturalization, warning of another Sept. 11-style attack.

There are no Sharia courts in Texas only voluntary Muslim mediation panels operating under the same framework used by Jewish beth din courts and Christian arbitration services. Yet in a letter sent to district attorneys and sheriffs demanding an investigation, Abbott wrote that The Constitution's religious protections provide no authority for religious courts to skirt state and federal laws simply by donning robes and pronouncing positions inconsistent with western civilization, implying that Muslims were secretly building an alternative legal system.

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.