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Bernier denied the accusation, stating that this was the only eyewitness account of him supposedly making a racist comment and accused political strategist Warren Kinsella of orchestrating a defamation campaign against him. [75] In November 2021, Ontario Court dismissed Bernier's defamation lawsuit for failing anti-SLAPP screening test. [76] [77]
Terrorist attacks committed by non-Muslims (or where the religion was unknown) received an average of 15 headlines, while those committed by Muslim extremists received 105 headlines. [48] The study was based on an analysis of news reports covering terrorist attacks in the United States between 2005 and 2015. [47] [clarification needed]
Anti-Palestinianism or anti-Palestinian racism [1] refers to prejudice, collective hatred, and discrimination directed at the Palestinian people for any variety of reasons. Since the mid-20th century, the phenomenon has largely overlapped with anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia because the overwhelming majority of Palestinians today are Arabs ...
Mourners gather near the site where Daunte Wright was killed, April 11, 2021. On April 11, 2021, at 1:48 p.m., 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed during a traffic stop by Kim Potter, an officer with the police department of Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis. His girlfriend, a passenger in his car, was also injured.
On June 10, 2021, the Florida Board of Education unanimously voted to ban public schools from teaching critical race theory at the urging of governor Ron DeSantis. [57] As of July 2021, 10 U.S. states have introduced bills or taken other steps that would restrict teaching critical race theory, and 26 others were in the process of doing so.
Similarly, in various print media outlets, headlines alluded to the idea that the Fort Hood Shooting had ties to terrorist acts or other terrorist organizations. [110] Another incident that occurred in Times Square on May 2, 2010, provoked more anti-Muslim sentiment. [110] Faisal Shahzad made a bombing attempt that failed. [111]
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Some scholars view Islamophobia and racism as partially overlapping phenomena. Diane Frost defines Islamophobia as anti-Muslim feeling and violence based on "race" or religion. [87] Islamophobia may also target people who have Muslim names, or have a look that is associated with Muslims. [88]