In-flight meal choices of international passengers could be a potential profiling tool for national authorities, a senior airline manager has told border officials. Marina Ripa-Braescu, the facilitation and security manager for Swiss International Air Lines, told a conference on border security in Hungary last week that information about pre-ordered meals could be used to help …
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A train driver supposedly kicked off a 14-year-old for wearing a headscarf in the German district of Friedrichshagen in east Berlin. The young girl told the police that she got on the train, which was going to the train station Friedrichshagen, at about 02:.35 p.m. The driver asked the girl to get off via loudspeakers, …
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A man burst into a Muslim prayer hall in the Swiss city of Zurich on Monday and started shooting, injuring three men, according to police, who have launched a manhunt for the shooter. A body was found a few hundred meters (yards) from the scene, an AFP photographer said, but it was unclear if it …
A Muslim woman in east London had her headscarf pulled off and was dragged along the ground in a “sickening” attack in east London. The 27-year-old woman had been visiting a friend at a hair salon when two white youths approached her from behind and tried to rip off her hijab before pushing her onto …
British police arrested a man who stabbed an Asian man while shouting “I want to kill a Muslim” at a London train station on Monday. The stabbing happened Monday as a train pulled into the Forest Hill station in southeast London. Witnesses said the attacker strode through the moving train and selected a victim based …
German mosques run by clerics adhering to the ultra-conservative sect of Sunni Islam called Salafism should be shut down, their communities broken up, and preachers expelled, believes German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel. “On this question I am for zero tolerance,” the German official told Der Spiegel in an interview, commenting on the links between the …
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The Derby Telegraph and Daily Mail reported last week on an alleged assault on a Muslim taxi driver in Normanton, Derby who was subjected to a “brutal” ordeal by a passenger who refused to pay her taxi fare following a late night journey. Shahid Iqbal, 50, was driving the female passenger and a companion to …
A comedy sketch satirizing British women who left the country to join the Daesh terror group has sparked controversy in the U.K. The Real Housewives of Isis [Daesh] was aired by public broadcaster BBC on Wednesday as part of a comedy show called Revolting. In the brief sketch, one of the four British “wives” is …
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A seventy-five year old man who racially abused a Muslim woman in veil was fined £258 due to his old age in Swansea, a coastal city in Wales. Bert Fahy, a seventy-five year old Irish man, appeared at the Swansea Magistrates Court and pleaded guilty to racially and religiously aggravated public order. On Nov. 22, …
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In the chaos following U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban refugees and immigrants, a five-year-old boy was detained for hours at Washington Dulles International Airport. On Saturday, the boy, who is a U.S. citizen from Maryland, was travelling from Iran to Washington, D.C. with a family member to meet his mother, who is …
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