#muslims

How UK's Hard Right Is Attacking An Independent Press Over #Muslims (Mustafa al-Dabbagh)

https://eaworldview.com/2025/05/how-uk-hard-right-attacked-an-independent-press-over-muslims/

"In each case, steps are same: attack the referees, then rewrite the rules. Adopt language of free speech as a shield from scrutiny.

The far right is laying the groundwork for unchecked power. By delegitimizing oversight, they hope to eliminate it, freeing them to act with impunity"

#UK #Muslims

How UK's Hard Right Is Attacking An Independent Press Over #Muslims (Mustafa al-Dabbagh)

https://eaworldview.com/2025/05/how-uk-hard-right-attacked-an-independent-press-over-muslims/

#Telegraph #MichaelGove #Islamophobia

https://www.europesays.com/?p=2048583 Turkish Cypriots demonstrate against hijab rule in schools in Nicosia #cyprus #hijab #Muslims #Religión #Turkey

"The History of Canadian Muslims in Toronto"

I am leading this Jane's Walk on Sunday Afternoon, May 4 2025.

We start at 3:00 p.m.

We meet at the Roncesvalles Peace Garden,

Where Dundas Street Forks with Roncesvalles Avenue in West End Toronto.

This Jane’s Walk explains how 3rd, 4th, & 5th Generation Muslim Torontonians helped build our city.

| #JanesWalk #JanesWalkToronto #JanesWalkTO #Toronto #TOpoli #Cities #Urbanism #JaneJacobs #JaneJacobsWalk #CanadianMuslims #TorontoHistory #Muslims

Indonesia, which has the world’s largest Muslim population, is vulnerable to climate change. A national movement called Green Islam is urging all citizens to care for the Earth. #climate #Indonesia #Muslims

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2025/0501/green-islam-indonesia-climate-change?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into YOUR CLIMATE IS CHANGING @your-climate-is-changing-csmonitor

(machine translation fr)
"This Friday morning, Aboubakar, a young Malian man of 22 years, was alone in the Khadidja mosque in La Grand-Combe, a small village of 5000 inhabitants in the Gard, to do the cleaning in preparation for the great prayer of the’ afternoon. While Aboubakar was kneeling to pray, a man armed with’a knife burst into the’ and stabbed him about fifty times.

While the victim was between life and death at his feet, the’assassin filmed his agony,’ exclaiming « your goddamn God, I planted his ass. », according to a modus operandi reminiscent of the Christchurch attack, which had claimed the lives of 51 new Zealanders of Muslim faith during a carnage broadcast live on the internet. The’assassin then fled and would at the moment still on the run and would have affirmed in video his desire to reiterate his act.
A despicable and openly Islamophobic act, which occurs only one day after the murder of’a high school girl in Nantes by a teenager « fascinated by Nazi ideals ». The two dramas are inseparable from the xenophobic and Islamophobic climate that reigns in France."

#racistattack #islamophobia #france #muslims #racism #fascism

https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Assassinat-raciste-a-la-mosquee-de-La-Grand-Combe-l-islamophobie-tue

https://www.europesays.com/uk/49985/ Religiously unaffiliated now outnumber Catholics and Protestants in Germany, survey finds #catholics #Church #decline #EU #Europe #Germany #Muslims #protestants #ReligiousAffiliation #unaffiliated

So…it’s Arab American Heritage Month. We’re already three weeks in, but I wanted to write about it all the same.

This feels especially important right now, given Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

There are some public figures in my article that I bet you didn’t know were of Arab descent. Also some interesting stats.

https://markwrites.io/arab-american-heritage-month

#Arab #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #Culture #Muslims #Inclusion #Equality #Palestine

On "real Christians."

This is a lightly edited version of a post I first made several years ago on Facebook. Sadly, it never seems to stop being relevant.

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Every time I hear #Christians saying "they're not real Christians" or "this isn't real #Christianity," about other Christians doing something that brings discredit on the ##religion, my skin crawls.

Because if they're not Christians ... well, neither was Constantine. Neither were the generations of #monarchs who followed, invoking the divine right of kings. Neither were the #popes and #bishops and #priests—and note that I'm not just talking about #Catholics here—who almost universally supported and legitimized the idea that #God had put our leaders in place, and to oppose them was #blasphemy.

Neither were the #Crusaders, the #Inquisitors, the #witch-burners. Neither were the soldiers who fought generations of #religious #wars within #Christendom, including the Thirty Years' War that wrought devastation equal to both World Wars. Neither for that matter were the politicians who gave us what we *call* the First World War, in which most of the major combatants on both sides proudly claimed the Christian label, and in several cases were still official theocracies.

Neither were the Christians who rounded up their #Jewish neighbors in the Second for delivery to the camps—and if you claim that was the work of a #neopagan cult that maybe a few thousand people total ever took seriously, I'll laugh in your face before cutting you out of my life. (But I'll remember who and what you are, believe me.) Neither were the people who used Christianity to justify #conquest and #slavery and #genocide and #segregation, for centuries, and in many cases still do.

In short, if you say these people aren't Christians, you're saying most Christians throughout the *entire history of the religion* weren't Christians. You can die on that hill if you really want to. But you'll die alone, and most likely at the hands of your fellow believers.

Christians are, as a rule, no worse than other people. But you're no better, either. Do you *want* to be better? Great, that's what everyone else wants too.

So prove it. Stop making excuses. Own these people, and *then* confront them. Admit that they're yours, and then expunge them. Scourge the heretics with fire and sword, and send them wailing into the outer darkness tearing their hair and gnashing their teeth. Cast them into the lake of fire.

If you do this, if you have first the moral and then the physical courage to face this monstrosity in your midst unflinchingly and with full knowledge of what it is, then you'll have plenty of help. #Jews and #Muslims and #Hindus and #Wiccans and #atheists and all the rest won't just cheer you on. We'll be right there by your side.

And while there are in the US still more Christians than all of us put together, there aren't more of *this kind* of Christian than all decent human beings put together. We can't fight them alone. Neither can you. Together we can—as long as you're honest about what that means.

If you don't? We'll be right back to #Torquemada, with a high-tech gloss. You might live a little longer than the rest of us, but not by much, and you'll go to the rack and the stake and the oven with the words of your own holy writ shouted in your ears.

Those are the only two options. Your choice.

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Addendum:

I have a great many friends who grew up Christian, and left the religion at some point. Despite having made the choice to walk away from their childhood faith, they often feel the reflexive need to defend the people they were, and in most cases their families still are.

Those who are still Christians, of whom I trust I also have a fair number left, may feel the same impulse—although interestingly, it seems to me they're less reflexive on the whole than the former believers.

We're all made of our #history. The people we were are still the people we are, in some corner of our brains. And there are complexities about being on the inside of any group that outsiders can never quite grasp. It's similar to the way I am about the #military, which is practically a religion in its own right.

Okay. Stipulated, as lawyers say on TV and maybe in real life too. I get it. Now please get this:

Unless you *grew up* as a member of a religious minority, you will most likely never understand, on a gut level, the terror the majority religion inflicts by its very existence.

This isn't unique to Christianity, to be clear. Every majority religion, in every time and place, has unconsciously (and often consciously as well, to be sure) been casually brutal to infidels and heretics. Nature of the beast. But here in the US, that beast invariably carries a cross, so there's the focus of my attention.

You don't have to understand it. Just accept that it exists, and it leaves scars. I can live with those scars, and so can nearly everyone else who bears them. That *stigma*, if you will.

But if you cut us, we still bleed. We'll heal from those wounds too, and add new scars to the old. Long after the bleeding stops, we'll remember who gave them to us.

Here I stand; I can do no other. How about you?

https://www.europesays.com/2006467/ King Charles and Queen Camilla visit Pope Francis #allah #BritishRoyalFamily #CatholicNews #charles #CharlesIII #dioceses #Islam #KingCharles #Malaysia #MalaysiaChurchNews #Muslims #nuns #parishes #Pope #priests #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #WorldChristianNews

https://www.europesays.com/uk/30503/ King Charles and Queen Camilla visit Pope Francis #allah #BritishRoyalFamily #CatholicNews #Charles #CharlesIII #dioceses #Islam #KingCharles #Malaysia #MalaysiaChurchNews #Muslims #nuns #parishes #pope #priests #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #WorldChristianNews

Taking away the blown up children & people in #Gaza, Americans still do nothing for Marginalized communities: #Women, #LGBTQ #Trans, #Queer #Gay, etc., Black & Brown People even #Arabs & #Muslims in the #USA as the worse keeps befalling with no effect of looking to reality than joining the #FightingOligarchy #VoteBlue crap!

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #Trump #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #Musk #Fascism #Progressive

The Supreme Court questioned the Centre on potentially allowing Muslims in Hindu religious trusts during a hearing on petitions challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. Concerns were raised about 'waqf by user' and the Act's implications on long-standing Islamic practices. The court is considering whether to hear the matter or refer it to a high court, with petitioners arguing the Act's provisions are unconstitutional.
#Muslims #Hindu #SC #Centre #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/waqf-act-row-will-muslims-be-allowed-to-be-part-of-hindu-trusts-sc-questions-centre/articleshow/120343346.cms

Atheists are now the largest group in Germany.

For the first time ever, Germany has more atheists (47%) than Catholics and Protestants combined (45%).

This decline in faith is particularly noticeable in southern states such as Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250416-atheists-are-now-the-largest-group-in-germany?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Germany #Atheism #Religion #Demographics #Catholics #Protestants #Muslims #Catholicism #Protestantism #Islam

https://www.europesays.com/?p=1999573 AI’s ability to solve Israel’s prolonged conflicts #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Israel #LeftWing #Muslims #Religión #RightWing #secular

It's not just Trump - when it comes to Palestine, also #Germany crashes down on supporters of Palestine.
The law to do this and more exists since many years. No one took too much notice, as it was mostly used against #Muslims .

https://hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/germanys-deportation-crackdown-a

#Pollitics brings out the darkest shades humanity
Where were these #muslims when the wife of Hon Shaheed Abdul Hameed was doing dishes to feed herself after her husband died in the #pakistan war
I am not proud of this country , as a matter of fact i never was

Od roku 2014 Rusko bezdůvodně systematicky pronásleduje krymské Tatary a zaměřuje se na jejich víru, identitu a kulturu.

Tataři, kteří před ruskou invazí mírumilovně žili vedle svých ukrajinských a ruských sousedů, kteří respektvoali mezinárodní hranice a etickou rozmanitost oblasti, a kteří kulturně a ekonomicky prosperovali, jsou dnes na Krymu bezdůvodně perzekuování - jen proto, že jsou Tataři a muslimové.

#islám #Tataři #Krym #Crimea #Ukrajina #Ukraine #Russia #muslims #genocide

Muscovite empire could be defined as #tranny, a man in women cloth.

They declare themselves as Christians, but Muscovy "Orthodox" Church is not a church, but a branch of KGB. Any real Christian denominations are prosecuted ( https://cepa.org/article/a-sinister-confessional-russian-church-persecution/ )

Same time #Muslims in orcish empire are doing well, they are allowed to build mosques and attached photo depicts a usual Muslim prayer in Moscow

So a Muslim-leaning empire which banned Christianity, but claims to be Christian - cross-dresser