When the perpetrator is Muslim, the motive must be Islam

Before we knew anything about the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, we knew that he "recently became a devout Muslim who prayed five times a day." This piece of information was placed in the lead of an Associated Press article published as the police were still on the hunt for Tsarnaev's younger brother and alleged accomplice, Dzhokhar.
Deanna Othman 

I am not the Tsarnaevs

"The Tsarnaev brothers’ criminal and perverse actions do not speak for me or the overwhelming majority of Muslims. I am not compelled to apologize for them or explain their actions. Muslims are not a monolithic, Borg-like collective, who possess a shared consciousness, specializing in counterterrorism knowledge with a telepathic understanding of the perverse mind-set of radicals in their “community.
"This is like asking Republican Christians to apologize for Timothy McVeigh or expecting young white males to explain why individuals like Adam Lanza, Jared Loughner and James Holmes used assault rifles to unleash terror on innocent civilians."
Wajahat Ali in Salon 

Boston Mosque Mistakenly Linked To Suspects

“None of our staff or board ever recall coming across these two suspects,” the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center tells BuzzFeed

Hate Crimes in MA, NY Follow Boston Bombings

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said hate incidents in Massachusetts and New York occurred following the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.
CAIR press release 

Knifeman ordered Bristol women to take off hijabs

A man racially abused a Muslim woman and demanded she took off her hijab before putting a kitchen knife to her throat.

David Norris, 39, approached Farduja Jama who was with her eight-year-old son in Morton Street, Barton Hill at 9am.

​Drunken Norris, who was brandishing a six-inch knife told her: "Take the hijab off. This is England, you are not allowed. Take the hijab off before I stab you."

Reported by the Bristol Post

“Please don’t let it be a Muslim”

Wajahat Ali writing in Salon;

Muslims must always prove beyond an unreasonable doubt that we are patriotic, and outraged over things we didn't do

Syrian brides not for sale: The story of a rumour

Ahram Online investigates recent reports that thousands of vulnerable Syrian refugee women are being married off to Egyptian men as cheap brides.

Black workers 'banned from Gare du Nord during Israeli president visit'

Black and North African railway workers were banned from working at Paris's Gare du Nord when the President of Israel visited France over fears they might be Muslim, it has emerged.
UK Daily Telegraph report 

Geller on Rabbis taking a stand against Islamophobia; "pasty-faced quislings"

Pamela Geller has not reacted well to Rabbi Michael White and Rabbi Jerome Davidson's article in the The Jewish Week, Hate Speech Has No Place in a Synagogue. On Twitter she wrote; "pasty-faced quislings --(rebuttal to come)". We'll carry that rebutal when it comes but Geller is clearly now under attack from the constituency she has relied on until now.

Femen protest brings condemnation from Muslim women

"In March 2013, a 19 year-old Tunisian activist by the name of Amina posted topless photographs of herself on Femen’s Facebook page. In one photo, “my body is my own and not the source of anyone’s honor” is written on her chest. In another image, Amina is holding up her middle fingers with “fuck your morals” written on her chest."
Femen Strikes in Tunisia – the Case of Amina
Sara Salem on Tahrir-ICN

Muslim women send message to Femen - Counter-protest launched against 'Topless Jihad Day'.
Aljazeera Storify piece

Muslim Women Shockingly Not Grateful for Topless European Ladies Trying To ‘Save’ Them
By Callie Beusman on jezebel.com