News tagged with 'National Security and Anti-Muslim Racism'

Authors: Youcef Soufi, Sunera Thobani Baljit Nagra, Associate Professor at OttawaU’s Department of Criminology, discusses her book Securitized Citizens: Canadian Muslims Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post 9/11. Dr. Nagra discusses the findings of her research with educated second-generation Muslims in Toronto and Vancouver. Nagra analyzes Canadian Muslims’ exclusion from citizenship post 9/11. She […]

Authors: Youcef Soufi, Sunera Thobani  Sunera Thobani, Professor in the Asian Studies Department at UBC, discusses her new book, Contesting Islam: The Inordinate Desire of the West (2021). Dr. Thobani recounts the historical constructions of Muslims and the West through an critical engagement with postcolonial theorists, race theory, feminism, and queer theory. Host: Youcef Soufi Date […]

Authors: Fahad Ahmad, Khalidah Ali Dr. Fahad Ahmad discusses his dissertation, “Comparison of Muslim Civil Society Responses to Counter-radicalization Policies in Canada & U.K” with PhD candidate, Khalidah Ali, at the Institute of Islamic Studies. Comparing the cases of Canada and the U.K., this research shows how, in response to CR policy pressures, Muslim civil […]

Introduction The eleven reflections gathered here are in response to the attack in London, Ontario on Sunday June 6th that killed Madiha Salman, Salman Afzaal, Yumna Afzaal, and Talat Afzaal, and hospitalized 9-year old  Fayez Afzaal. Recognized as a “mass murder” and a “terrorist act,” the attack brought to public attention the problem of Islamophobia in […]

Author: Anver Emon Professor Anver M. Emon, co-author and principal research of “Under Layered Suspicion: A Review of CRA Audits of Muslim-led Charities” provides a walkthrough of the report. In each video he unpacks the careful reading and analysis of audit track records and public policies which give insight into the ways systemic biases and […]

Authors: Zeinab Farokhi, Yasmin Jiwani, Faiza Hirji, Kenza Oumlil, Tanner Mirrlees This panel brings together the contributors of a special issue of the Journal of Islamophobia Studies that addresses the operation and circulation of Islamophobic discourses on a transnational level through the realm of digital media. Zeinab Farokhi Zeinab Farokhi is a doctoral candidate at the Women […]

Authors: Anver Emon, Nadia Hasan, Zeinab Farokhi In this discussion, hosted by Zeinab Farokhi, Professor Anver Emon and Dr. Nadia Hasan share findings on how biases in Canada’s anti-terrorism financing and anti-radicalization regimes disproportionately target Muslim-led charities, leading to the revocation of their charitable status. The full report can be found at: layeredsuspicion.ca The authors also […]

Author: Khalidah Ali On November 16th, 2020, Motherboard published an investigation on data collection and surveillance. At the centre of this story was the Muslim prayer app Muslim Pro. The article entitled “How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps” written by Joseph Cox was shared widely, garnering Muslim reactions of outrage and betrayal aimed at […]

Author: Natasha Bakht Niqab-wearing women in liberal democracies have for some time been “read” in very particular ways that do not tend to coincide with their lived realities. Many people assume that by wearing the niqab, these women accept subordinate status to men, that they are forced into this attire, that they do not or cannot work in […]