Monitoring group’s report paints picture of an explosion of anti-Muslim hate, with women disproportionately targeted by mostly teen perpetrators. Incidents of anti-Muslim abuse and attacks in public areas of the UK rose by 326% in 2015, with women disproportionately targeted by mostly teenage perpetrators, according to a new report from the monitoring group Tell MAMA. …
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Turgut Ozal Hospital in the capital city of Ankara refused to accept patients in the evening of failed coup attempt on 15 July 2015. A person who went for treatment said: “They [the staff] started to shout at us. They said “How dare you fight against the [rogue] soldiers? How dare you go out on …
A video of the shooter arguing with residents shows him screaming “You fucking Turks!” according to one report. Perpetrator: “shit Turks.” … Perpetrator: “I am a German.” Residents: “A wanker you are!” Perpetrator: “I was born in Germany, in a Hartz-4- area” There are conflicting reports: we know that the shooter says “I’m a German” …
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French mayor shares Islamophobic cartoon on social media while 30 of the 84 victims were Muslims in Nice attack.
Approximately 40.000 people with Turkish roots gathered in the German city of Cologne on Sunday to denounce the failed July 15 coup in Turkey and show solidarity for Turkish people and government. While this organization called “Democracy Rally against Coup” was rallying in Cologne, four counter-protests were allowed to take place elsewhere in the city, …
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For years, the Islamic Center of Boca Raton, Fla., served as a polling station for Palm Beach County voters.Since at least the year 2010, citizens have cast their votes within the pastel green walls of the mosque, whether it was for a presidential primary, a municipal election or a special primary. Last week, however, the …
Code Pink, a non-governmental organization describes itself as women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement, tried to protest Israel for supporting Palestinian human rights at the DNC (Democratic National Convention). Code Pink entered the convention halls to urge delegates to “support justice for Palestine.” They held banners that said “Free Palestine” or “Building Settlements Prohibits …
Nearly 60 immigrant men at two Ontario maximum security prisons Thursday entered the fourth day of a hunger strike to protest the Canadian policy of indefinite immigration detention that denies immigrants access to any judicial process. Between 2006 and 2014, under the Conservative government of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada jailed over 87,000 immigrants …
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Satoshi Uematsu, the 26-year-old man who killed 19 disabled people in a care facility for the disabled near Tokyo on Tuesday, expressed admiration for Nazi ideology during a stint in a psychiatric hospital in February. According to an official in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Uematsu discussed his attraction to the Nazi ideology of eugenics, which sees …
Rep. Peter King said that U.S. intelligence agencies have to “surveil the Muslim communities, watch them more carefully” in light of the deadly French attacks that killed as many as 80 people and injured more than 100 others.
