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Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been burnishing his religious credentials ahead of this week's election. Will it be enough to beat an old rival, the firebrand populist Prabowo Subianto?
Some Muslims hide their identity, pretending to be less devout than they actually are, in a bid to deflect Islamophobia.
Muslims are not new to America. The first Muslims came as slaves and left a deep influence on a host of music genres, such as the blues and jazz.
It's not necessarily because of Islamophobia.
There is no inherent tension between Islam and democratic values. Like any use of religion in politics, the application of Sharia as law depends on who is using it – and why.
The arguments of far right commentators who conflate Islam with extremism are flawed. In the rich and complex tradition of Islam, extremists are a small minority who often target other Muslims.
Some of the earliest Muslims to settle in Christchurch during the 19th century have helped in the construction of Christchurch Cathedral and are part of the city's history of Christianity.
Islam is often seen as a monolithic religion, but this ignores the diversity of the people and their ethnicity and culture.
Senegal is important for Africa because it’s a country that shifts the narrative of the continent as an “arc of instability.”
Researchers have put together a toolkit for countering Islamophobia.
Another case involving an even more egregious violation of international law by China against Canada languishes largely forgotten.
Huseyin Celil, a Canadian citizen, has been in jail since 2006.
For Muslim women, the hijab is not simply about religion. They may wear it for a variety of reasons. On World Hijab Day. women – Muslim and non-Muslim, are invited to experience this head covering.
Trump recently tweeted about prayer rugs being left along the border. Many may not know the role and history of Muslim prayer rugs and why they are not likely to be left behind.
Hijab is not simply about religion – women wear it for a variety of reasons.
A new machine learning tool can detect and classify different strengths of Islamophobic hate speech on Twitter.
An evolutionary biologist makes the case that there's no reconciling science and religion. In the search for truth, one tests hypotheses while the other relies on faith.
Muslim women in the UK don't feel able to discuss their healthcare needs because of fears of islamaphobia.
For the first time the UK has a working definition for Islamophobia.
Not all terrorist incidents have mental illness as a causal factor, and most violent acts are committed by people without a mental illness.
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Lecturer, history and political thought, Islamic studies, Western Sydney University
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PhD Candidate at the Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in International Relations and Security Studies, Curtin University
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Ph.D. Candidate, Religion in the Americas, Global Islam, University of Florida
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Principal Investigator and Project Director of the Global Ethic Project, Parliament of the World's Religions, University of Chicago
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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Modernity, School of Humanities and Communication arts, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Hate Studies, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer & UG Programme Director, Department of International Politics, City, University of London
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Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
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Lecturer in History, Massey University
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Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Islamic Studies and former Chairperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
