In a bizarre coincidence, the Quebec Court of Appeal is hearing his defence plead this week that 40 years is too long. Islamophobia is a hateful ideology, one that relies on the murkiness of historical bloodshed to provide a fig leaf for contemporary injustices. It is led not by activists but by ordinary Muslim women, braving one of the coldest winters on record fortified with many cups of chai. The research showed that their “communities experience both Islamophobia from people who aren’t Muslim, and anti-Blackness from people who are Muslim but aren’t Black. “This layered experience of discrimination is something many Black Muslims have been talking about for a long time,” she said.

Source: thestar January 28, 2020 18:33 UTC