Prejudices

International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia was marked in seven Serbian cities for the first time with synchronized events.

They were organized by Labris, state institutions and local civil society organizations, Beta reported, citing to a press release issued by Labris.

Roughly one fifth of people now living are Muslims. Their societies are located in every corner of the globe and vary in language, ethnicity, political ideology, nationality, culture, and wealth. Yet we tend to imagine this 1.5 billion people, despite such diversity, as a cohesive and united whole, defined above all by their Muslim identity.

Anti-racist and anti-homophobia groups including the Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) and Athens Pride, have joined forces in filing suit against a teacher of religious education in Xanthi, northern Greece, for distributing homophobic material.

Lawmakers in Canada's House of Commons, with strong encouragement from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, passed a motion on March 23 paving the way for future measures to combat Islamophobia.

A former Texas pre-school teacher and anti-Israel activist has come under fire after a number of tweets surfaced showing her railing against Jews, including one encouraging her “baby girl” to “kill some Jews.”

What is going on in the United States is very important in terms of all societies, but it is especially important for Muslims. 

A senior Turkish government official has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's imposition of a ban on the nationals of seven Muslim countries and called Washington to correct the "wrongful measure."

Turkey has issued a message of commemoration for the millions of people who lost their lives during the Nazi Holocaust on Jan. 27 Holocaust Remembrance Day, saying the country would stand against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.

"We commemorate the millions of people who lost their lives during the Holocaust with respect," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. 

Rent-a-Jew is a reach-out program. Launched by the Munich-headquartered European academy Janusz Korczak, it aspires to prevent anti-Semitism by providing people with the opportunity to socialize with members of the Jewish community, breaking down and dispelling any prejudices in the process.

A report conducted by the government's Secretariat for Religious Affairs - the first study of its kind to be conducted in Greece - found that religious sites were the target of 147 attacks in 2015, with the majority being connected to the Greek Orthodox faith.