A few days ago, the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance & Non Violence 2020 started accepting nominations. It aims to honor individuals who promote non-violence all over the world. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2020.
In a book about opposing Islamophobia, Italian researchers Pietro Basso and Fabio Perocco state that the discourse of some European governments invokes fear of Muslim immigrants by claiming that they pose danger to society, thus spreading Islamophobia in Europe.
A new project was launched in Tokyo, Japan, which aims to provide mobile mosques (trucks) during the Olympics 2020 next August. The project aims to cater to Muslim athletes and spectators; prayer spaces for people of different religions will also be provided.
In the past decade, graffiti emerged as a new art form, associated with advocating for causes. A film by Sawt Alhikma reveals how fanatics have transformed this art form to a tool for spreading hate!
President Mohammed Bukhari of Nigeria revealed in an article in the American newspaper Christianity Today that 90% of the Boko Haram victims during the past years were Muslims. It targeted the vulnerable, attacked mosques, and kidnapped Muslim women.
The State Migration Service in Kyiv searched the identification papers of Muslims in the Ukraine, as they were heading to Friday prayer, and detained 25 of them.
After the Executive Committee meeting between foreign ministers, the OIC announced its complete rejection of the Deal Of The Century because it lacks the simplest elements of justice and does not meet the basic rights of the Palestinian people.
The French National Observatory Against Islamophobia announced a 54% increase in attacks against Muslims in France. The attacks increased from 100 attacks in 2018 to 154 in 2019 and are mostly concentrated in Ile de France, Rhone-Alpes and Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
"...[Muhammad] was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level." Micharl Hart, author of The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
Muslim rugby player Sonny Bill Williams' team, which is currently in Canada, respected his refusal to wear the logo of the team's betting firm sponsor because it violates his religious beliefs. Williams is keen to defend Muslim causes and oppose Islamophobia.
A recent study by Jamileh Kadivar from the ... Read More
Recent press reports revealed that dozens of Muslim children in Austria are still suffering from PTSD, as a result of raids carried out by the police on 70 Muslim homes last November, which caused significant psychological and health damages to the children.
Sawt Alhikma Center of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation commended the efforts exerted by a number of leaders of Muslim communities in countries of the Western world, to confront the rumors that have spread recently about Covid-19 vaccines, which claimed that the vaccines do not suit Muslims or are forbidden under Islamic law.
Actor Riz Ahmed has been under the Western Media spotlight recently, after being nominated for Academy Award’s Best Actor, to become the first Muslim to be nominated in this category, which many see as a change in Hollywood’s negative stereotypical view of Muslims.
