What students are talking about today (Aug. 22 edition)
Dirty Dancing, a fireworks battle and spying on Muslims
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Sensitivity only reinforces stereotype of Muslims as violent
View ArticleThe Thriving American Muslim
Yesterday’s NYTimes reported a pretty interesting Gallup poll that took a 2008 survey on quality of life indicators and focused on the results for American Muslims. According to the poll, Muslims in...
View ArticleHolland’s anti-Islamic crusader
Photograph by Empics Entertainment/Keystone There was never any doubt that Geert Wilders could talk the talk; this most disagreeable Dutchman, head of Holland’s far-right, anti-immigrant Freedom Party...
View ArticleFace veils? No. Racy lingerie? Yes.
The sometimes fraught, often conflicted world of European Muslims took a strange turn last week. On the same day media outlets covered a Belgian parliamentary committee’s decision to outlaw face veils...
View ArticleThe new anti-Semitism
THOMAS HAENTZSCHEL/AP “Gone with the Jews!” yelled a group of youths at Jewish dance performers on the fringes of ?Hanover, Germany. It was International Day, and celebrations were focused on social...
View ArticleWhy liberals are suddenly getting a little bit nostalgic for George W. Bush
Yuri Gripas/Reuters There are billboards in the U.S. with George W. Bush’s face and the slogan “Miss me yet?” The people answering “yes” are, unexpectedly, liberals. Since conservative activists have...
View ArticleThe rise of the far right
Matthew Lloyd Getty Images/ Phil Noble Reuters/ Sand Tan AP “We’re expecting a nice peaceful protest, and we’ll all be home for tea time.” The police officer in the northern British city of Bradford...
View ArticleA switch to mecca time?
SAUDI PRESS AGENCY/AP/CP Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, which this year ends during the second week of September, revolves around the clock: there’s fasting from dawn to sunset, and prayers five...
View ArticleBurning Qurans and Ground Zero mosques: when is it reasonable to take offence?
Phil Sandlin/AP For one mad moment, it seemed as if the standoff over the burning Qurans and the controversy over the Ground Zero mosque would both be settled at one go—with a trade. Terry Jones, the...
View ArticlePutting the ‘mam’ in imam
Pierre Bessard/REA/Redux Communism, which preaches the equality of men and women, has done nothing to redress China’s overweening cultural bias against baby girls, but it does seem to be helping women...
View ArticleThilo Sarrazin spreads his word on Muslim immigration
Sean Gallup/Getty Images With his controversial book dominating the German integration debate, former German central banker Thilo Sarrazin is spreading his message to the English-speaking world:...
View ArticleThis pot’s for melting: Geert Wilders, Muslims, and Assimilation
Some of you might have caught wind of self-described Islam-hater Geert Wilders’ little jaunt through Ontario last month, during which the controversial Dutchman performed his usual routine, viz.,...
View ArticlePray—but not outside
Franck Prevel/Getty Images Just as Muslims throughout France prepared for their Friday prayers, the government passed a ban on Sept. 16 outlawing the increasingly common practice of praying in the...
View ArticleRape is not a matter of religion
wyliepoon/Flickr In Toronto’s Yonge and Dundas Square, street corners are crowded with religious buskers, preachers, end-of-lifers. They’re often ignored until they make statements so foolish that you...
View ArticleThe Innocence of Muslims and the dirty conscience of Ron Banerjee
(Todd Korol/Reuters) Remember when I wrote about Ron Banerjee, the proud and out bigot heading the Canadian Hindu Advocacy? Well, he’s back in the news again, not for protesting middle schools, or...
View ArticleConservative senator: Tories getting bad rap with Muslims, but need to work...
OTTAWA – The messages being sent by the federal government and the Conservative party that form it may be having a negative impact on the country’s Muslim community, a senior Conservative senator...
View ArticleThe booming market in books for Muslim children
Rukhsana Khan. (Photograph by Hannah Yoon) When Zareen Jaffery was growing up in the late 1980s, she could find books about other Muslim kids. But they had nothing to do with her life in a leafy...
View ArticleA short history of scapegoating Muslims in Quebec
We are midway through Quebec’s election cycle, and predicable things are happening. Opposition parties begin to stake out positions on key issues, the importance of which are no doubt polled, focused...
View ArticleTariq Ramadan in 2005: ‘Terror is a fact, not an ideology’
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View ArticleIt’s time for Justin Trudeau to do brave things
Late Sunday night, a terrorist atrocity at a mosque on Sainte-Foy Street in Quebec City was the most unlikely of ways for a weekend—one of global pandemonium ignited by the incompetent malevolence of...
View ArticleWe need to understand what ‘Islamophobia’ really means
Throughout the second day after the late-night shooting at the Mosque in Quebec city, people continued to add flowers and notes and other objects as memorials for the victims on snowbanks around the...
View ArticleDonald Trump is destabilizing Iraq
Shiite fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary units advance towards the village of Shwah, south of the city of Tal Afar on the western outskirts of Mosul, on December...
View ArticleWhat Canada’s ‘Yellow Peril’ teaches us about this migrant moment
James Pon, 88, photographed at his home in Toronto in 2006, shows the original documents showing the Chinese Head Tax paid ($500), for each his mother and him, in 1922. (Peter Power/Toronto Star/Getty...
View ArticleWhat Trump missed in his address on tolerance – American Muslims
President Donald Trump delivers a speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit on Sunday, May 21, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) This article originally appeared on President Donald...
View ArticleWhy Arundhati Roy returned to fiction after 20 years
Author Arundhati Roy. (Mayank Austen Soofi) Arriving 20 years after her Booker Prize-winning debut novel The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is one of the most...
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