Anti-Islam

As a country that gives high priority to fundamental freedoms, France is facing difficulty in striking a balance between freedom and security, a former Turkish ambassador to Paris has told the Hürriyet Daily News. 

As a country that gives high priority to fundamental freedoms, France is facing difficulty in striking a balance between freedom and security, a former Turkish ambassador to Paris has told the Hürriyet Daily News. 

My column neighbor and ex-sparring partner (if I may?) Mustafa Akyol was perfectly right in his piece "Don't give ISIL the Islamophobia it wants," when he wrote that the French "should not give the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) what it wants, which is an irrational and disproportionate response." He was also right when he wrote that "in a nutshell, this would mean 'total war' agai

The day after the attacks in Paris, the leader of the Islamic Community in Bosnia, Husein Kavazovic, condemned the murders and expressed solidarity with the victims.

"The attackers do not represent our faith nor our community," Kavazovic said on Saturday.

For the first time, ISIS assumed responsibility for an attack on American soil, which took place the day before yesterday against an Islamophobic gathering in Texas, and threatened to unleash further attacks.

France's prime minister announced April 17the government would pour 100 million euros into a major anti-racism and anti-Semitism action plan devised in the aftermath of the deadly Paris jihadist attacks.
      

The term "Islamophobia" entered the global political language in the past decade.

Turkey will make every effort to protect Muslims in Austria, especially those of Turkish descent, from being harmed due to a controversial recently approved bill regulating Islam in the country, Turkey's EU minister said on Feb. 26.

Austria will turn the clock back a century if it approves a draft law on Islam scheduled to be voted on in Austria?s parliament on Feb. 25, Turkey?s top cleric has suggested.

Since the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC on Sept. 11, 2001, I have seen countless discussions in the West on a peculiar question: "Why do they hate us?" The "they" here refers to the "extremists," a term that was popularized in the same era, of the Muslim world, and the "us" referred to both the U.S. and "the West" in general.