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  1. UK art show explores Muslim life, Europe’s Islamic history and Islamophobia | Arts and Culture News

    London, United Kingdom – Underneath a 536-year-old Islamic-inspired Spanish roof in east London hang three tapestries linking the…
    #NewsBeep #News #UnitedKingdom #ArtsandCulture #Europe #GB #GreatBritain #Islamophobia #Religion #UK
    newsbeep.com/uk/760718/

  2. ‘‘Never Forget’ is not a slogan’: Mamdani designates 9/11 as a Day of Remembrance and Service
    By Maya Yang in New York

    The New York City mayor will sign two executive orders honoring those impacted by the attacks, as he faces campaign to exclude him from the 25th anniversary commemoration

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

    #NewYork #September112001 #ZohranMamdani #USnews #Islamophobia #USpolitics #TheGuardian #MayaYanginNewYork

  3. More:

    Hudak’s report identified two posts from 2020 in which El-Sayed drew a comparison between the growing number of deaths from COVID-19 and the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11.

    El-Sayed argued that the scale of the pandemic warranted a similarly broad national mobilization. In one post, El-Sayed said he hoped the country would devote the following decade to a “war for public health & against poverty,” invoking the government’s response to terrorism after 9/11 and arguing that such an effort could “save lives rather than take them.”

    The article also examined a 2021 post in which El-Sayed expressed sympathy for those killed or injured in the attacks before pointing to the loss of life and destruction that resulted from the military campaigns launched in their aftermath.

    (bolding added)

    2/3

    #racism #Islamophobia #Trump #Republicans #BariWeiss #CBS #CBSNews #ElectionInterference #USPol

  4. More:

    Hudak’s report identified two posts from 2020 in which El-Sayed drew a comparison between the growing number of deaths from COVID-19 and the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11.

    El-Sayed argued that the scale of the pandemic warranted a similarly broad national mobilization. In one post, El-Sayed said he hoped the country would devote the following decade to a “war for public health & against poverty,” invoking the government’s response to terrorism after 9/11 and arguing that such an effort could “save lives rather than take them.”

    The article also examined a 2021 post in which El-Sayed expressed sympathy for those killed or injured in the attacks before pointing to the loss of life and destruction that resulted from the military campaigns launched in their aftermath.

    (bolding added)

    2/3

    #racism #Islamophobia #Trump #Republicans #BariWeiss #CBS #CBSNews #ElectionInterference #USPol

  5. More:

    Hudak’s report identified two posts from 2020 in which El-Sayed drew a comparison between the growing number of deaths from COVID-19 and the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11.

    El-Sayed argued that the scale of the pandemic warranted a similarly broad national mobilization. In one post, El-Sayed said he hoped the country would devote the following decade to a “war for public health & against poverty,” invoking the government’s response to terrorism after 9/11 and arguing that such an effort could “save lives rather than take them.”

    The article also examined a 2021 post in which El-Sayed expressed sympathy for those killed or injured in the attacks before pointing to the loss of life and destruction that resulted from the military campaigns launched in their aftermath.

    (bolding added)

    2/3

    #racism #Islamophobia #Trump #Republicans #BariWeiss #CBS #CBSNews #ElectionInterference #USPol

  6. More:

    Hudak’s report identified two posts from 2020 in which El-Sayed drew a comparison between the growing number of deaths from COVID-19 and the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11.

    El-Sayed argued that the scale of the pandemic warranted a similarly broad national mobilization. In one post, El-Sayed said he hoped the country would devote the following decade to a “war for public health & against poverty,” invoking the government’s response to terrorism after 9/11 and arguing that such an effort could “save lives rather than take them.”

    The article also examined a 2021 post in which El-Sayed expressed sympathy for those killed or injured in the attacks before pointing to the loss of life and destruction that resulted from the military campaigns launched in their aftermath.

    (bolding added)

    2/3

    #racism #Islamophobia #Trump #Republicans #BariWeiss #CBS #CBSNews #ElectionInterference #USPol

  7. @georgetakei

    Not just another "right-wing slide".

    Trump bootlicker Bari Weiss turned a nothingburger into a racist, Islamophobic attack -- clearly intended to hurt a Democratic Senate candidate -- with the full weight of once-respected CBS News.

    "CBS News Slammed After Publishing Controversial Headline About Dem Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed"

    The headline in question:

    “Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks.”

    More from the article:

    The media newsletter Status reported that Weiss specifically directed that the headline call attention to El-Sayed’s deleted references to the September 11 attacks. The 41-year-old El-Sayed was only 16 years old on 9/11.

    (bolding added)

    1/3

    #racism #Islamophobia #Trump #Republicans #BariWeiss #CBS #CBSNews #ElectionInterference #USPol

  8. @georgetakei

    Not just another "right-wing slide".

    Trump bootlicker Bari Weiss turned a nothingburger into a racist, Islamophobic attack -- clearly intended to hurt a Democratic Senate candidate -- with the full weight of once-respected CBS News.

    "CBS News Slammed After Publishing Controversial Headline About Dem Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed"

    The headline in question:

    “Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks.”

    More from the article:

    The media newsletter Status reported that Weiss specifically directed that the headline call attention to El-Sayed’s deleted references to the September 11 attacks. The 41-year-old El-Sayed was only 16 years old on 9/11.

    (bolding added)

    1/3

    #racism #Islamophobia #Trump #Republicans #BariWeiss #CBS #CBSNews #ElectionInterference #USPol

  9. @georgetakei

    Not just another "right-wing slide".

    Trump bootlicker Bari Weiss turned a nothingburger into a racist, Islamophobic attack -- clearly intended to hurt a Democratic Senate candidate -- with the full weight of once-respected CBS News.

    "CBS News Slammed After Publishing Controversial Headline About Dem Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed"

    The headline in question:

    “Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks.”

    More from the article:

    The media newsletter Status reported that Weiss specifically directed that the headline call attention to El-Sayed’s deleted references to the September 11 attacks. The 41-year-old El-Sayed was only 16 years old on 9/11.

    (bolding added)

    1/3

    #racism #Islamophobia #Trump #Republicans #BariWeiss #CBS #CBSNews #ElectionInterference #USPol

  10. @georgetakei

    Not just another "right-wing slide".

    Trump bootlicker Bari Weiss turned a nothingburger into a racist, Islamophobic attack -- clearly intended to hurt a Democratic Senate candidate -- with the full weight of once-respected CBS News.

    "CBS News Slammed After Publishing Controversial Headline About Dem Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed"

    The headline in question:

    “Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks.”

    More from the article:

    The media newsletter Status reported that Weiss specifically directed that the headline call attention to El-Sayed’s deleted references to the September 11 attacks. The 41-year-old El-Sayed was only 16 years old on 9/11.

    (bolding added)

    1/3

    #racism #Islamophobia #Trump #Republicans #BariWeiss #CBS #CBSNews #ElectionInterference #USPol

  11. CW: Sweden General Election 2026 poster

    The text translates to English as "Islamists don't like me". Louise Hammargren is the president of the Christian Democratic Youth League according to Wikipedia.

    #sweden #Sverigevalet #islamophobia

  12. How will Turkish diaspora respond to AfD’s far-right narratives?

    “And I have to be honest with you: If it is going to be called remigration, then that…
    #EuropeSays #Turkiye #Türkiye #AFD #aliceweidel #Europe #far-right #Germany #Islamophobia #Turkish
    europesays.com/turkiye/46935/

  13. Later that day, #DFW announced it had scrapped plans to add additional washing stations in men’s & women’s restrooms that are available to passersby outside the security perimeter.
    
Airport spox Heath Montgomery wrote in an email that ofcls “determined the originally anticipated benefit may not be achieved” if the stations were built.

    #law #racism #discrimination #bigotry #hate #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #US #Constitution #ReligiousFreedom

  14. #GregAbbott sent a letter Friday to the heads of the Houston airport & Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport that said facilities aimed at serving one religious group are discriminatory against everyone else.

    Abbott said he has asked the US Dept of Transportation to investigate both airports & warned that his office is “reviewing all grants to any local governmental entities involved in these schemes.”

    #law #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #US #Constitution #ReligiousFreedom

  15. …Public #wudu stations are also open at places including the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, LaGuardia Airport in New York & O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

    Now, amid rising attacks on #Muslims by #Republican elected officials, #Texas Gov #GregAbbott is making the stations a target.

    #law #racism #discrimination #bigotry #hate #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #US #Constitution #ReligiousFreedom

  16. For years, travelers passing through Texas’s airports have had access to small washing stations for a ritual called #wudu, in which #Muslims clean their hands, arms, head & feet before the 5 daily #prayers.
    
Such facilities have become more common in states with large #Muslim populations, including #Texas, where travelers & others pop in & out of washing stations at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

    #law #WhiteChristianNationalism #Islamophobia #US #Constitution #ReligiousFreedom

  17. Is Islam Compatible with Western Civilisation?

    When someone declares that Islam is "incompatible with Western civilisation," why is the West automatically treated as the moral standard? Before you judge whether Islam fits your "Western" world, you must first prove that your world is morally defensible.

    wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-

  18. Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency

    Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.

    wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-

  19. Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency

    Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.

    wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-

  20. Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency

    Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.

    wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-

  21. Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency

    Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.

    wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-

  22. Is Islam Compatible with Modern Values?

    When people ask whether Islam is compatible with modernity, they often assume Western liberalism as history’s endpoint. Islam does not exist to validate modernity; it exists to form an ethical life, challenge power, and expose the violence hidden inside “progress.”

    wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-

  23. Is Islam Compatible with Modern Values?

    When people ask whether Islam is compatible with modernity, they often assume Western liberalism as history’s endpoint. Islam does not exist to validate modernity; it exists to form an ethical life, challenge power, and expose the violence hidden inside “progress.”

    wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-

  24. Is Islam Compatible with Modern Values?

    When people ask whether Islam is compatible with modernity, they often assume Western liberalism as history’s endpoint. Islam does not exist to validate modernity; it exists to form an ethical life, challenge power, and expose the violence hidden inside “progress.”

    wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-

  25. Is Islam Compatible with Modern Values?

    When people ask whether Islam is compatible with modernity, they often assume Western liberalism as history’s endpoint. Islam does not exist to validate modernity. It exists to form an ethical life, challenge power, and expose the violence hidden inside “progress.”

    wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-

  26. White Politicians being trash again, the Lib Dems calling it out. Glad I'm not on Corporate social media so I don't have racist conspiracy theories thrust into my face...

    #CambridgeshireTrainAttack #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #ChrisPhilp #MaxWilkinson #Racism #Islamophobia #Tories #ReformUK #LibDems

  27. "Shaun Maguire wanted New York City voters to know about the dangers ahead. On July 4, the general partner at the industry-leading Sequoia Capital posted on X that Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was a secret "Islamist" who "comes from a culture of lying." Mamdani, he added, "has basically advocated for the destruction of America."

    The comments were not unusual for Maguire, a self-described moderate former Hillary Clinton voter who has become a full-throated MAGA convert, defender of Israel, and one of the most provocative right-wing political commentators among an increasingly right-leaning group of venture capitalists and founders. This time, though, the social-media dam broke, bringing a flood of critical comments from startup founders and tech workers. Hundreds of Muslim founders signed an open letter asking that Sequoia apologize and discipline Maguire. At the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference, the annual "summer camp for billionaires" in Idaho, Sequoia's managing partner Roelof Botha was hounded with questions about Maguire, The New York Times reported. Several other people I spoke to — including Maguire's friends, colleagues, and executives from a Sequoia limited partner and a Sequoia portfolio company — wondered what might happen to tech's new leading controversialist.

    More broadly, the ongoing debate over Maguire's posts reflects a tech business riven by faultlines over the industry's positions on Israel's war in Gaza. Those disagreements, which have been tamped down by some Muslim tech workers' fear of losing their jobs or funding, are now exploding into the open."

    businessinsider.com/shaun-magu

    #USA #Trump #MAGA #SequoiaCapital #SiliconValley #VentureCapital #Mamdani #Islamophobia

  28. CW: "New antisemitism" 🧵

    In 1967, the State of Israel attacked Egypt. Already, it was referred to as a ‘pre-emptive strike’. Since then, the Jewish State has occupied Sinai, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. (see map)
    For three centuries, this war has been the only one to bear the name of its duration: the ‘Six-Day War’, a name that glorifies the military impact (of the Zionist Sparta).
    In 1968, several French intellectuals drew a link between the Six-Day War, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
    The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an organisation that supports the Israeli government and fights against diversity. In 1974, Arnold Forster and Benjamin Epstein of the ADL published a book entitled ‘The New anti-Semitism’, expressing their concerns about :
    - an indifference to the fears of ‘the Jewish people’,
    - apathy in dealing with prejudice against Jews,
    - an inability to understand the importance of Israel for the survival of the ‘Jewish people’ (in their view).
    Hence controversy in the United States (among professionals in public debate).
    Later, Allan Brownfeld wrote that Forster and Epstein's definition of anti-Semitism trivialised the concept by turning it into ‘a form of political blackmail’ and ‘a weapon to silence any form of criticism of Israel or of US policy in the Middle East’ (in ‘Anti-Semitism: Its Changing Meaning’, Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 16, no 3 (Spring, 1987), pp. 53-67).

    #IsraelArabConflict #SixDayWar #history #historyOfThought #proZionism #civilization #clashOfCivilizations #TheWest #imperialism #instrumentalisation #confusion #amalgam #antisemitism #newAntisemitism #MiddleEast #StandWithIsrael #islamophobia

  29. “For nearly a thousand years, communities on the Indian subcontinent had coexisted in a cultural melting where religious identity was less salient than ethnic or linguistic identity. “A hybrid Indo-Islamic civilization emerged,” according to the historian of India William Dalrymple. “In the nineteenth century, India was still a place where traditions, languages, and cultures cut across religious groupings, and where people did not define themselves primarily through their religious faith.” Much as communities had negotiated means of coexistence in pre-Mandate Palestine only to see them unravel during British rule, the subcontinent’s communal arrangements corroded when the full weight of Britain’s colonial state bore down on them. The Raj’s divide and rule policies produced a chemical-like reaction, shattering long-standing traditions of coexistence and interacting with local personalities who had their own ambitions, passions, and allegiances. It was another liberal experiment in empire gone horribly wrong, and on a scale so epic that once history’s chain of contingent events combusted, no one could contain it.”

    Excerpt from Caroline Elkins' #book, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"

    @bookstodon hat-tip @markvonwahlde

    #liberalism #castism #raceMaking #hindouism #beliefs #violence #brutalization #ethnic #religion #islamophobia #IndianSubcontinent #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #colonialism #British #preBritish #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #bookStodon #CarolineElkins

  30. CW: Harrowing “solidarity tours” of Israel are reinscribing American Jews’ sense of victimhood 🧶

    "The trips I joined seemed intended to reassure participants that they could support @israel while retaining the moral clarity of the victim."

    "The trips not only blur past and present Jewish trauma, but encourage visiting Americans to assume an Israeli identity—and the sense of embattlement that comes with it."

    Maya Rosen: jewishcurrents.org/the-rise-of

    #liberals #victimhood #tourism #darkTourism #separatism #communautarism #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #fragility #warOnGaza #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #StandWithIsrael

  31. First Worldism—“the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed.”
    —Judith Butler, J. (2009). ‘Violence, mourning, politics’, in Harding, J. and Pribram, D. eds., Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, pp. 387–402.

    🧵 @socialpsych

    #CulturalStudies #JudithButler #fragility #respectability #NineEleven #post911Wars #Oct7 #Oct7War #postOct7War #FirstWorldism #domination #boundaries #grievability #imperialism #geoPolitics #victimhood #resources #sociology #protest #protests #coloniality #stateRacism #indignation #entitlement #whiteness #islamophobia #moralPanic #psychology #masculinity #whiteFragility #quote #quotes #book #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #terrorism

  32. Interview: “In my 34-year career as journalist, I have never felt as anxious as I do today,” says Samar Halarnkar

    In an interview with Maktoob’s Gafira Qadir, Samar Halarnkar, founder of the independent media house Article-14, talks about the tough situation journalists are in, facing threats and new laws that limit their freedom. He also talks about how hard it is to report on the government in a critical way.

    #PressFreedom #media #journalism #censorship #DraconianLaws #BJP #UnionGovt #UAPA #PMLA #kashmir #manipur #UttarPradesh #islamophobia #hindutva #authoritarianism #india

    maktoobmedia.com/india/intervi

  33. Why has news media regulator fined Times Now Navbharat and News18 India and warned Aaj Tak against religious stereotyping?

    The News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority under the chairmanship of Justice A.K Sikri found the three news channels had violated the Code of Ethics & Broadcasting Standards and the principles relating to impartiality, objectivity, neutrality and accuracy for inappropriate reporting.

    #NBDSA #TimesNowNavbharat #news18india #AajTak #TimesNow #misinformation #islamophobia #hindutva #ConspiracyTheories #TV #media #india

    theleaflet.in/why-has-news-med

  34. Times Now Navbharat linking every instance of murder or violence against women to 'love jihad': NBDSA

    The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority also pulled up Aaj Tak and News18 India for stereotyping men from a particular community and spreading communal hatred.

    #TimesNowNavbharat #TimesNow #NBDSA #HateSpeech #hindutva #ConspiracyTheories #islamophobia #media #TV #india

    barandbench.com/news/nbdsa-aaj

  35. Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah: "Countering violent extremism, governmentality and Australian Muslim youth as ‘becoming terrorist’"

    Abstract
    This article explores how a ‘regime of truth’ about Muslim youth has been historically produced through the underlying logic of Australia’s counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism (CVE) policies and practices. The article is divided into three parts. I first look at how the pre-emptive logic of countering the ‘becoming terrorist’ constitutes young Australian Muslims. I then interrogate the way CVE has constituted Australian Muslims as a self-contained space, a governmental population divided between ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists’. Lastly, I discuss how CVE operates as a technique of governmentality in the way that it deploys grants programs to foster the ‘conduct of conduct’ of Muslim subjects within this self-contained racialised space. I argue that the central organising logic of community partnership has been the targeting of the conditions of emergence of ‘extremist’ Muslim subjects, thereby guaranteeing the racialisation of Muslim youth as always at-risk, marked with the ‘potential’ of ‘becoming terrorist’.

    journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/1 @sociology

    #raceMaking #islamophobia #reputation #race #racism #whiteSupremacy #whiteness #sociology #policing #terrorism #counterTerrorism #AbdelFattah #conflation #AUPol #Australia