International Day to Combat Islamophobia

  Observing events, media news, discourses, public feelings, and incidents on Islamophobia occurring during the latest 16-months period, the Islamophobia Observatory draws some conclusions as pointed below:   Islamophobia around the world continued to ascend and had reached the most significant level since 9/11. The negative trend was clearly reflected through intensive media campaigns and public discourses against Islam; through the growing intolerant attitudes against Muslims ; through a significant number of incidents occurring sporadically against individuals, mosques, Islamic centers, and attires; as well as through wide-spread insults targeting the Holy Qur’an and sacred symbols of Islam.   The United States is not anymore a very safe place to live for Muslims since more and more American non-Muslims feels anxious and fearful with Muslims’ presence . The series of terrorist attacks hitting Paris and Brussels in 2015 and 2016 had made the Islamophobia situation ...

  There exist a huge number of institutions related to Islamophobia so that observing all of them is less feasible. There is however, a possibility to observe the most active institutions, particularly those who have most pertinence with the OIC’s measures and undertakings in this area; and since Islamophobia issue is mostly alarming in Europe and the US, it seems to be beneficial to focus only on institutions operating in these two hot spots. However, in this report the Observatory will only present monitoring results on institutions operating in the US; since Europe comprises more than 50 countries hence it is less practical to mention names and elaborate institutions operating in this continent. Scrutinizing those institutions, the Observatory made a classification based on their vision, mission, programs, activities, gestures, or simply on the constant attitudes and positions taken by their key figures; hoping that such a classification could help the OIC in establishing the r...