{"id":35963,"date":"2019-03-17T23:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35963"},"modified":"2019-03-17T23:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T23:22:47","slug":"why-is-islamophobia-increasing-in-western-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35963","title":{"rendered":"Why is Islamophobia increasing in Western countries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"78.05907173\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/new-zealand.html\">New Zealand<\/a>&#8216;s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern calls it a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She was sent a 74-page so-called &#8220;manifesto&#8221; against Muslims and immigrants by a suspected gunman just minutes before he began firing indiscriminately at the first of two mosques in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;manifesto&#8221;, he describes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/donald-trump.html\">Donald Trump<\/a>, the president of the United States,\u00a0as a symbol of renewed white identity.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump asked Ardern what he could do to help, she told him to show &#8220;sympathy and love for all Muslim communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s driving the hatred and prejudice against Muslims in Western countries? And is it linked to white supremacy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Hazem Sika<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tasneem Chopra &#8211; chair of the Australian Muslim Women&#8217;s Centre for Human Rights<\/p>\n<p>Rodger Shanahan &#8211; research fellow at the Lowy Institute<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Goodwin &#8211; professor at the University of Kent and former member of the UK government&#8217;s Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern calls it a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221;. She was sent a 74-page so-called &#8220;manifesto&#8221; against Muslims and immigrants by a suspected gunman just minutes before he began firing indiscriminately at the first of two mosques in Christchurch. In the &#8220;manifesto&#8221;, he describes Donald Trump, the president of the United States,\u00a0as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}