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A survey released Wednesday by UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute found that most Muslim Americans experience Islamophobia in their lifetimes, especially women.
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When people ask me: “Where are you from?” I have to ask them to clarify what they mean by that. As in where I used to live before this? Or are you referring to the way I look? Usually, they are referring to my race or ethnicity. When I first
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In light of the scheduled talks by conservative commentators Ben Shapiro and Milo Yiannopoulos, Chancellor Carol Christ said the best way to combat ideas you disagree with is to debate them. In support of this idea, she quotes John Stuart Mill who said, “Truth is of such power that it
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Now, many privileged communities strategically co-opt the concept of free speech to legitimize their open hatred of historically subordinated populations and to strategically disguise their prejudiced, dehumanizing ideologies as benign political opinion.
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The campus Muslim Student Association, or MSA, coordinated a vigil on Sproul Plaza on Tuesday evening to honor Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old Muslim teenager who was allegedly kidnapped on her way to her mosque in Virginia and later killed.
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Nabra Hassanen was walking from the typical Ramadan morning meal — what we call suhoor — to her local Virginia masjid when disaster struck.
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Berkeley City Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday to determine whether Berkeley Police Department will continue participating in Urban Shield.
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Whether you visit a town riddled with Islamophobia or the most liberal cosmopolitan, Muslims have to deal with daily reminders of how they are different.
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Like many of you, I am shocked at the rise of Donald Trump to the Presidency. But as much as he is #NotMyPresident, we have to realize that Trump is a mirror pointed back at us, whether we voted for him or not. If Hillary had won, we’d be celebrating
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The ASUC senate amended and passed “A Bill Condemning Anti-Semitism” to include clauses concerning the creation of a senate ad hoc committee on the subject at a meeting Wednesday night.
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