Channel 4 is in the midst of a 'brownface' controversy over a programme where a white British woman darkened he skin to go undercover as a Muslim in Manchester's Pakistani community.
Reddish Suburb Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0. Reddish is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, 4.6 miles south-east of Manchester city centre. At the 2011 census, the population was 28,052.South Manchester Muslim Community Association...
Hart highlights the events that took place in Birmingham on the evening of August 5, where,according to the BBC, “a group of Muslim youths” gathered in the city, which has a significant immigrant population. This followed rumours of an anti-immigration protest set to take place in the cit...
ethnic, and cultural groups. Muslim groups, in particular, have historically existed in numerous regions of Europe among these minorities. Historical occurrences, like the Islamic culture in Andalusia and the Ottoman Empire’s expansion in the Balkans, established...
The Chinese government has confirmed the drop in the birth rate to CNN but claimed that between 2010 and 2018 the Uyghur population of Xinjiangincreased overall. During the crackdown, textbooks for Uyghur culture, history and literature were allegedly removed from classes for Xinjiang schoolchildren,...
(Haggerty,2006). The surveillance gaze allows for a population to be known which is a prerequisite for it to become a site of action: identifying the ‘risks’ that need to be neutralised; the unacceptable, abnormal behaviours and ideas that need to be disciplined by way of extending social...
Polls have shown a stark divide between Republicans and Democrats in how they view Muslims, who number about 3 million in the United States, or less than 1% of the population. Some conservative commentators, such as pundit Ann Coulter, came to Trump's defense. Columnist Adriana Cohen wrote ...
And community workers from Nepal and Papua New Guinea told the seminar, on the fringes of a session of the U.N.’s 47-member Human Rights Council, that “witch-hunting” was now common, both in rural communities and larger population centres. ...
Abstract In order to preserve the anonymity of the respondents, surrogate names are used throughout the paper. ‘Barakah’ is an extension of religious commandment which guarantees food to every living being on earth. Arabic word, which literally means ‘community’ ...
5. Italian Veils in the Italian Context In Italy, Islam is the second largest religion. Data about the percentage of Muslims in the country is rather discordant, depending on the institution collecting it; however, one might say that Muslims currently represent 2% of the entire population, about...