Opposing Islamophobia is about opposing knee-jerk discrimination and xenophobia, dressed up as concern for "rights" using vulgar stereotypes and crude generalizations.

A disturbing pattern of gross infringements on basic civil liberties, put in place in the name of national security, has poisoned the US legal system, under which fair trials are unlikely.

What makes this case particularly horrific is that the suffering Dr. Hamoodi sought to alleviate was caused by the same US government that is now imprisoning him for his humanitarianism.

Writer and activist Owen Jones says it is time for Muslims and non-Muslims alike, to join forces against the most widespread – and most widely accepted – form of bigotry of our times.

You can now say things about Muslims that you cannot say about any other group or minority, says Mehdi Hasan, and asks who's with him in refusing to allow the Islamophobes to win.

In the aftermath of the killings, some anti-Islamic organisations and websites showed remorse, but that phase passed, and now the venom is even stronger.

If we are to have a chance of preventing similar crimes in the future we must detoxify the political climate that made Anders Breivik's atrocities possible.

In recent years a network of politically motivated special interests has emerged that is determined to stigmatise and marginalise Muslims in all areas of American public life.

As the belief has grown that dissent by politically active Muslims has not just been stigmatised, but criminalised, many Muslims have melted away from the antiwar movement.

Lindsey German says politics and media have some responsibility, not for the killings themselves, but for the culture which has demonised Muslims and created an atmosphere of hatred.

Norwegian Aslak Sira Myhre says we need to use the atrocity in his country to strike a blow at the intolerance, racism and hatred that is growing throughout Europe.

Hardly had the shooting finished and the world's media had already decided, the culprits were Muslims, and within hours President Obama was using the atrocity to justify his "war on terror".

How do we define extremism or extremist views? Under prime minister David Cameron's definition, he is no less an extremist than the Muslim organisations he is trying to demonise.

An anti-Islamophobia freedom train to Paris was one of the proposals for action agreed at a conference, in London on 21 May 2011, aiming to confront anti-Muslim hatred in Britain and Europe.

As the economic crisis drags on, and as Britain, France and Italy lead the third military assault on a Muslim country in ten years, the poison of Islamophobia is in danger of spreading.

I would rather go to prison than take off the face veil, says Kenza Drider. Are they going to put a woman in prison because of a scrap of material? It's ridiculous.