Posts on social media make the claim that U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden wants “Islam to be taught in our schools”, suggesting this would be at the expense of teaching Christianity. This claim is misleading and misrepresents Biden’s remarks…more:reuters
Category: Interfaith
ISNA Responds to the 2015 State of the Union Address
Jesuit priest will deliver invocation at Biden’s presidential inauguration
… Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio gave the invocation at President Lyndon B. Johnson’s inauguration. His prayer included a description of the time saying: “In these days of tragedy and crisis all that we hold dear is challenged…
The Terrible ‘Sinicization’ of Islam in China
How China persecutes the Uyghurs and targets other Muslim minorities in a bid to assimilate them. In the past three years, over 1 million Uyghurs in the People’s Republic of China have been enduring a systemic, state-run campaign of incarceration and internment in “re-education camps” in one of the world’s worst human rights abuses. The story has begun to receive the coverage it deserves in major media outlets, like in this investigative report…MORE:newlinesmag
A Weapon Used Against Muslims
False information, is the most powerful weapon used against Muslims, Listen to this smear-caster….Then read… Muslim Demographics – fact vs. fiction There’s a video going around about Muslim demographics in Europe. It was put up by FriendofMuslim, which turns out is…
Old/New: Archbishop McCarrick on Muslim Civil Rights
The Cry of the Olive Tree
The World in 2021: five stories to watch out for | The Economist
THE FACTORIES IN THE CAMPS…UYGHUR GENOCIDE
China has built more than 100 new facilities in Xinjiang where it can not only lock people up, but also force them to work in dedicated factory buildings right on site, BuzzFeed News can reveal based on government records, interviews, and hundreds of satellite images.
In August, BuzzFeed News uncovered hundreds of compounds in Xinjiang bearing the hallmarks of prisons or detention camps, many built during the last three years in a rapid escalation of China’s campaign….MORE: buzzfeednews/ fp
Documentary: Women Reverts to Islam
Officials Name Suspect In Nashville Blast; Investigating If It Was A Suicide Bombing
…On Sunday, a spokesman for Nashville Police Chief John Drake said that Anthony Q. Warner, 63, is under investigation in connection with the bombing…more: npr
Macron’s version of ‘French Islam’ is state coercion against Muslims
Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a “historic” initiative: the creation of a formal council of imams to officialise the status of religious prayer leaders. The French secular state, which has justified its policing of virtually all public manifestations of Muslim identity in the name of laicite, is creating an official registry of Muslim imams…MORE:middleeasteye
India a dangerous, violent place for Muslims under Modi government, says minorities report
The annual South Asia State of Minorities Report 2020, that tracks the state of civil liberties in the region, also criticized the federal government’s intention to create a national register of Indian citizens that it said had the “potential to render Muslims stateless.”….MORE: independent
