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Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway is associate professor of Philosophy and Islamic Studies at al-Quds University.
"Muslims could change their world and overcome the tyranny of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim discrimination, just as slavery was abolished" 1
1. http://www.blink.org.uk/pdescription.asp?key=9255&grp=30&cat=138 Reported on 19/9/2005 (Shirin Aguiar-Holloway,in Islamaphobia is New Slavery, paraphrasing Hamza Yusuf's statement to a gathering of Muslim representatives at the House of Lords in the UK).
Islamophobia consists of violence against Muslims in the form of physical assaults, verbal abuse, and the vandalizing of property, especially of Islamic institutions including mosques, Islamic schools and Muslim cemeteries. Islamophobia also includes discrimination in employment -- where Muslims are faced with unequal opportunities -- discrimination in the provision of health services, exclusion from managerial positions and jobs of high responsibility; and exclusion from political and governmental posts. Ultimately, Islamophobia also comprises prejudice in the media, literature, and everyday conversation. 2
2. http://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/pdfs/islamophobia.pdf.
Let us consider the following examples:
A mosque in the French city of Carpentras in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region came under Molotov cocktail attack on Friday, November 11, [2005] during the weekly Friday prayer. 3
3. http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-11/12/article02.shtml.
Twelve drawings depicting Prophet Muhammad in different settings appeared in Denmark's largest circulation daily Jyllands-Posten on September 30, [2005]. In one of the drawings, Prophet Muhammad appeared with a turban shaped like a bomb strapped to his head.
Police arrested two people, apparently a Jewish pimp and a prostitute, on the Friday night of August 26 [2005] on suspicion that they were responsible for a pig's head dressed in a keffiyeh and inscribed with the nickname "the Prophet Muhammad" being thrown into the yard of Tel Aviv's Hassan Beik Mosque. 4
4. http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Briefs/6408.htm (August 27, 2005).
The U.S. military detailed on Friday, June 3, 2005, five cases in which jailers at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had desecrated copies of the Holy Qur'an, including one incident that had occurred as recently as March. Brigadier General Jay Hood, commander of the Guantanamo prison who headed the inquiry, said the inquiry had confirmed five cases of desecration.
"Did you hear about the Muslim virgin desperate to lose it? It wasn't really the sex she was interested in; she just didn't want to [f**k] a suicide bomber when she died." The British...