A day after a terror attack in London that left seven people dead, a Republican congressman from Louisiana urged people to kill anybody they suspect could be a radicalized Muslim. “Hunt them, identity [sic] them, and kill them. Kill them all,” Rep. Clay Higgins wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday. “For the sake of all that is good and righteous. Kill them all.”
“The free world... all of Christendom... is at war with Islamic horror,” Higgins, a former police captain, wrote on Sunday...
A writer for conservative media outlet Breitbart says she has been fired after tweeting “there would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn’t live there.” Katie McHugh writes on Twitter that Breitbart fired her “for telling the truth about Islam and Muslim immigration.” She is asking people to donate to an online fundraiser to help pay her medical bills while she looks to find another job.
Fellow Breitbart writer Ryan Saavedra called for a return of the Crusades...
A Danish man who posted a video of himself burning the Quran on Facebook will not stand trial after politicians abolished a centuries-old blasphemy law. The 42-year-old, who has not been named, was seen setting a large leather-bound copy of the holy book alight in a four-minute clip called “Consider your neighbour: it stinks when it burns". He faced up to four months in prison after prosecutors were alerted to the footage, which was posted to a Facebook group called “Yes to freedom – no to...
Danish lawmakers have repealed a 334-year-old blasphemy law that forbids public insults of a religion, such as the burning of holy books. Only a handful of blasphemy trials have taken place in the past 80 years, and several high-profile cases have been dropped, including one involving a caricature of the prophet Muhammad published in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005. Denmark was the only Scandinavian country with a blasphemy law, which called for up to four months in prison upon...
Racist vandals have spray painted ‘Terrorise your own country’ on an Islamic Centre in south London. The hate crime comes a day after extremists carried out a devastating attack in London Bridge and Borough Market, killing seven people and injuring 48. Of those, 21 are now in a critical condition. The graffiti on the building in Sutton, which is more than 12 miles away from the site of the attack, read ‘Terrorize your own country’ and ‘Go away’. The Islamic centre has no connection to the...
A leading human rights group on Monday called on Myanmar to move immediately to protect Muslims facing threats to their rights to free exercise of religion. Police are charging three Muslim men who last week organized a street prayer in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, to protest the closure of two religious schools, reducing the number of places of worship for Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan. Local administrative authorities also warned Muslims not to hold such prayers, claiming...
Yet another horrifying hate crime has been committed in the United States, once again leaving a victim beaten and bloody for standing up to the bigoted abuse of a white supremacist. Rahma Warsame of Columbus, Ohio, was allegedly beaten unconscious last night by a white male for defending another Muslim woman from harassment, according to the Columbus chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations. The attacker reportedly yelled “you will be all shipped back to Africa!” before brutally...
A total of 208 Islamophobic attacks took place during the first quarter of 2017 in Germany, according to the German government's data. German "Neue Osnabürcker Zeitung" reported Sunday that the German government, in response to a parliamentary question, told the Left Party that two people had been injured as a result of Islamophobic attacks, and that the perpetrators were mostly ultra-right attackers. German officials also said that they had started to record "anti-Muslim" crimes this year...
Taxi drivers in Leicester have been receiving Islamophobic abuse following the Manchester bombings, a cab firm boss has said. Satbir Gill, who runs Hansom Taxis in London Road, says two of his staff have been sworn at and blamed for the terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena on May 22 while driving round the city in the following days. The incidents involved other motorists launching a volley of abuse in road rage-style incidents.
Mr Gill said a female employee was targeted when she...
The number of hate crimes has nearly doubled following the Monday's suicide bomb attack at the Manchester Arena, the police data showed.
Police received 28 reports of hate crimes on the day of the attack, but the number rose to 56 by Wednesday.
"It is important that we continue to stand together here in Greater Manchester. Particularly against some of the hateful views that we've seen from a very small minority of the community that have no place here," Ian Hopkins, Chief...
A Turkish man was severely beaten by a racist Dutch mob in Belgium for supporting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, reports said Monday. The incident took place in Neerpelt municipality near the Dutch border on May 21, when a Turkish man identified as Ali Fakıoğlu was intercepted by a mob after closing his restaurant at night, who was then subjected to verbal and physical harassment.
Fakıoğlu said the Dutch mob, whose members were wearing clothes bearing racist symbols, asked him if he...
One of Germany's most prominent nationalists said on Saturday that she would like to see not only the burqa but all headscarves banned in German public spaces. Alice Weidel, who along with Alexander Gauland is representing the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party ahead of federal elections in September, called the religious garb sexist and inappropriate in German society. "Headscarves do not belong in public spaces and should be banned on the streets," she told Berlin daily...
Two men were fatally stabbed in Portland, Oregon on Friday after they came to the aid of two women who were being harassed because they appeared to be Muslim, police said. On Saturday, Portland police named the suspect as Jeremy Joseph Christian and said he was being held without bail at the Multnomah County jail. The 35-year-old, a known white supremacist according to a report by the Portland Mercury , was booked on two counts of aggravated murder, one count of attempted murder, two counts...
An illegal mosque on the outskirts of Belgrade lay in ruins on Friday morning after the city authorities destroyed it overnight, despite protests by local Muslims. N1 television reported that police forces blocked the area until Friday morning. The Mufti of Belgrade, Muhamed Jusufspahic, condemned the overnight demolition in the Zemon Polje area. On Friday, on his Facebook account, he called it an “attack on the Muslims in Serbia”. Jusufspahic complained that Serbia's authorities had not...
Dutch lawmakers have voiced opposition to a proposal by Amsterdam's top police official to consider allowing female Muslim agents to wear headscarfs, Dutch media reported Friday. At least six major political parties are against plans from Commissioner Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg to introduce Islamic headscarves to women's uniforms as part of a recruitment drive to diversify law enforcement in the Dutch capital.
Aalbersberg on Thursday said he wanted to boost multiculturalism among...