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Crises in Morocco and Tunisia: Is This Really the End of Political Islam?

Some saw this as an opportunity for ‘moderate’ Muslims - marginalized, exiled and often tortured and killed - to finally claim what is rightfully theirs; others, namely Israeli and right-wing western intellectuals and politicians, decried what they saw as an ‘Islamic Winter’, claiming that democracy and Islam would espouse an even greater anti-western and anti-Israeli sentiment.

“How Did We Get Here?” Facing the Political Histories of Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Racism in Canada

Decades later, when—in the same week—a Muslim family of 5 (the Afzaal family) is run over in London, Ontario (leaving a nine year old boy as the only survivor); three white people show up at a mosque in Toronto, threatening to detonate a bomb, and a black Muslim woman is attacked in Edmonton,  the Canadian public is asking, “How did we get here?,” “How did this happen?” When the Quebec shootings during which six Muslims were killed and eight injured in prayer in 2017 happens in cold blood; when mosque caretaker Mohamed-Aslim Zafis was brutally slain by a white supremacist in Toronto last year, politicians state: “this is not our Canada” and other similar rhetorical repulsions of this violence.

Denmark Is a Wonderland Except for Refugees

Read: Homeless Migrants Are Harassed, Chased, and Cleared Out by the French PoliceDenmark today is a country where there is a burqa ban for Muslim women in public; whose politicians commit to a “zero asylum seeker goal”; where Muslims are believed to be disrupting social cohesion; and where an anti-ghetto policy, set under the motto “No Ghettos in 2030,” aims to combat and gentrify Muslim neighborhoods.