(NEW YORK, NY, 2/16/2021) – A coalition of New York Muslim organizations today announced the creation of the New York Muslim Voter Project (NY MVP), a non-partisan coalition dedicated to maximizing turnout among the state’s registered Muslim voters and registering new Muslim voters for the upcoming and future elections. The NY MVP coalition plans to educate…
Islamophobic incidents that occurred in 2019 at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts have recently surfaced on the internet. LaGuardia High School has failed to appropriately take action in both instances: Islamophobic behavior from a Physics teacher and the inappropriate and highly offensive use of the Islamic call to prayer (athaan) at…
Recently, a Democrat District Leader of the 41st Assembly District (Brooklyn), made disparaging and hateful remarks about Palestinians and Chinese Americans in a series of tweets. While she subsequently apologized for her derogatory comments to the Chinese American community, she has yet to apologize to the Palestinian community. Furthermore, Maslow has twisted religious scripture to…
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(New York, NY, 11/01/2020) – Muslim leadership and community members across New York City will hold a rally against French President Macron’s vilification of the Muslim community in front of the Consulate General of France, this Sunday at 1 P.M. The French President has provoked the entire Muslim world through offensive Islamophobic and vulgar depictions…
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(New York, NY 10/07/2020) The French President Emmanuel Macron has consistently targeted the French Muslim community through Islamophobic rhetoric and policies. His new law, intentionally mislabeled as “Islamist Separatism,” seeks to further violate the religious rights of French Muslim minorities. Through a false equivocation with curbing violent extremism, Macron is targeting the Muslim community by…
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(New York, NY 09/08/2020) Charlie Hebdo, a French satire magazine known for provoking various marginalized communities with offensive cartoons, has recently republished insulting and derogatory images of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in wake of the upcoming trials against the gunmen responsible for murdering Charlie Hebdo staff in 2015. While they claim to republish such offensive…
(New York, NY 08/03/2020) -On August 5th, Hindutva supremacist groups will celebrate the construction of a Hindu Temple at Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, the very location where the historical Babri Mosque was destroyed and over 2,000 Muslims were killed in pogroms and riots across India since 1992. At a time when India is facing intense right-wing…