A Turkish cultural association said on Aug. 5 that almost all mosques and graveyards on Greece’s Kos (Istankoy) island were “ruined” and closed to worship.
The Rhodes, Kos and the Dodecanese Turks Culture and Solidarity Association urged Greece to respect the freedom of religion of the Kos Turkish community prior to the Eid-al Adha (Muslim feast of sacrifice) festival.
The organization’s president, Mustafa Kaymakçı, said in a written statement that the Algerian Gazi Hasan Pasha...
The frightening scenes come from Gornji Vakuf – Uskoplje, in which messages of hatred towards Bosniaks were noticed.
In this town in Central Bosnia, scary hate messages have been drawn on cars and houses belonging to Bosniaks.
The messages glorify genocide and call for new killings of Bosniaks.
The messages “Knife, wire, Srebrenica”, “Balija”, “There will be no balija”, “Ustasha” and Ustasha letters U and Nazi crosses were drawn.
Central Bosnia Canton police have...
A pair of hardline ministers are slated to speak at an event this week honoring an extremist rabbi who has praised the Israeli settler responsible for mowing down 29 Muslim worshipers in a terror attack at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs in 1994.
Education Minister Rafi Peretz and Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich will be attending an annual “Torah symposium” on Thursday put on by a religious NGO in the central town of Givat Shmuel. At the end of the day-long event, Rabbi...
A man armed with an assault rifle has opened fire at a packed shopping area in El Paso, in the US state of Texas, killing at least 20 people and wounding 26 others, according to officials.
Authorities said on Saturday the suspect was arrested outside a Walmart store near the Cielo Vista Mall, eight kilometres from a border checkpoint with Mexico.
Police confirmed that a 21-year-old from Allen, Texas, was the only person in custody. US media identified the suspect as Patrick...
Turkish restaurant in the Swedish city of Gothenburg was targeted in an attack, reports said Saturday.
The attack, carried out with an improvised explosive device (IED) took place at 2 a.m. on Saturday, restaurant owner Ismail Yücel told the Anadolu Agency.
Yücel said he learned about the attack after a restaurant worker who lives near the area heard about an explosion and called him.
"When we arrived at the restaurant police had cordoned off the area and were carrying...
A 26-year-old Eritrean national became the victim of a "xenophobic" attack Monday afternoon in the town of Wächtersbach, near Frankfurt, when a 55-year-old German man shot the Eritrean in the stomach from his car. The suspect later shot himself in the head, according to prosecutors.
The Eritrean was left seriously wounded but is said to be in a stable condition Tuesday after emergency surgery on his stomach, AFP reports.
Public prosecutor Alexander Badle said at a...
A beauty pageant contestant who was crowned Miss Michigan has had her title revoked over “offensive” tweets she previously posted regarding hijabs and the black community.
On Friday 19 July, Kathy Zhu tweeted that the Miss World America (MWA) organisation had been in contact with her to inform her of their decision to strip her of her title.
“It has been brought to the attention of Miss World America (MWA) that your social media accounts contain offensive, insensitive and...
US President Donald Trump has been accused of racism after posting tweets attacking Democratic congresswomen.
The president wrote: "So interesting to see 'progressive' Democrat congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful...
Italian police have seized a large arsenal of weapons, including an air-to-air missile and rocket launchers, in raids on neo-Nazi sympathisers in an arms haul that authorities said was almost without precedent.
At least three people, including Fabio Del Bergiolo - 50, a former candidate for the neo-fascist New Force, or Forza Nuova party (FN) - have been arrested.
Elite police forces searched properties across northern Italy following an investigation into Italians who had...
A police officer whose killing of a 19-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli sparked nationwide protests was freed from house arrest Monday but faces court-ordered restrictions in light of expected charges of reckless homicide.
The suspect is barred from entering the Zevulun police station for 45 days and is prevented from visiting the scene of the killing. A representative of the Justice Ministry’s Police Internal Investigations Department told the Haifa Magistrate’s Court that a decision has...
Two women were thrown off a Thomas Cook flight from Turkey to Gatwick after they allegedly said three Muslim men in white prayer shawls were “terrorists” and a “threat” to the safety of the plane, other passengers have claimed.
Videos of the incident, which took place after 1am on Friday, show one of the women, who are believed to be British, removing her bag from the overhead luggage rack before being escorted off the plane by police.
The incident meant the flight from Dalman...
Tommy Robinson has been given a nine-month prison sentence – of which he will serve about 10 weeks – after he was found guilty of contempt of court at an earlier hearing.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, broadcast reports that encouraged “vigilante action” and “unlawful physical” aggression against defendants in a sexual exploitation trial, according to the judges who found him guilty last week.
Passing sentence on Thursday, Dame Victoria Sharp said of...
Former European election candidate and English Defence League founder Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, widely known as Tommy Robinson, was found of guilty of contempt of court over broadcasting a trial of a sexual grooming gang last week. The activist has insisted that the case against him is politically motivated.
Tommy Robinson, known as a vocal anti-Islamisation activist, has publically begged US President Donald Trump for asylum ahead of his sentencing hearing in a contempt of court case....
A woman whose unborn baby was killed in a 2018 Pleasant Grove shooting has now been indicted in the death.
Marshae Jones, a 27-year-old Birmingham woman, was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury on a manslaughter charge. She was taken into custody on Wednesday.
Though Jones didn’t fire the shots that killed her unborn baby girl, authorities say she initiated the dispute that led to the gunfire. Police initially charged 23-year-old Ebony Jemison with manslaughter, but the...
The Netherlands’ national rail company said it will compensate hundreds of Holocaust victims for its role in the genocide.
Dutch Railways announced its plan Wednesday in a statement, specifying one-time payments of about $17,000 to each living Holocaust survivor it helped ship to death camps when the Netherlands was occupied by the Nazis.
Widows and widowers of victims will receive half of the amount, and children of victims may receive up to half of the amount, the NOS...