Three hundred million Muslims – one-fifth of the Ummah’s population – live as minorities today. The challenges they face in an increasingly hostile world are largely incomprehensible to those living in Muslim-majority countries. To be clear, each country differs in its political and strategic matters, and it would be incorrect to assume that hostility exists in every country.

Nevertheless, one cannot ignore developing world events and the pressure they will subsequently exert on Muslim minorities. The Swiss ban on minarets; French aversion to burqa; Danish blasphemy; and the American call for assimilation are strong indicators of how the West now views Muslims. Read the rest of this entry »

WHILE on one front Islam is being wrongfully linked with militancy, which we discussed yesterday, on another front Islam as a religion and Muslims as a community are under a direct attack.
Exploiting the world’s anger towards so-called “Islamic” terrorism, Islamophobes, under the guise of ‘experts’ and ‘analysts’, have been spreading blatant lies about this great religion. Misquoting verses, misusing legislative principles and mixing falsehood with elements of truth, they have managed to publish books, articles and websites that give a blatantly false image of Islam. Read the rest of this entry »

“It just seems now that all we ever get in the media is Muslims and Islam. The working class seems to have been forgotten. (Some) 25 years ago, I didn’t know what a Muslim was or that Muslims followed Islam. Now we can’t escape hearing about Muslims.”
– A disgruntled reader commenting on a recent Guardian piece

NEGATIVE coverage of Islam and Muslims in the media is no secret and it’s making people averse to Islam, not to mention the amount of hassles innocent Muslims are facing with authorities in non-Muslim countries. Read the rest of this entry »