UK unveils new extremism definition amid rise in hate crimes against Jews, Muslims
London, UK Reuters Britain unveiled a new definition of extremism on Thursday in response to an eruption of hate crimes against Jews and Muslims since the 7th October Hamas attacks on Israel, although critics said the change risked infringing on freedom of speech. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned that Britain’s multi-ethnic democracy […]
US President Biden includes faith leaders in summit’s charge to “rise together against hate”
US United StatesRNS Citing the murders of a Sikh man and a Black churchgoer on the anniversaries of their killings, US President Joe Biden, at a White House summit Thursday, addressed hate-fuelled violence, committing to new and renewed measures to combat hate, including attacks aimed at people of faith. “There’s a throughline of hate, from […]
ESSAY: BY ANY OTHER NAME – WHY THE US ‘TRAVEL BAN’ REALLY IS A MUSLIM BAN
In an article first published on Religion News Service, TODD GREEN, associate professor of religion at Luther College in Iowa and a former adviser on Islamophobia at the State Department in Washington, DC, on why the so-called US ‘travel ban’ is really a Muslim ban…