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 …
Muslim woman ‘could hardly breathe’ after being dragged on ground by hijab in London attack
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 …
Attacker shouts ‘I want to kill a Muslim’ before stabbing passenger at London train station
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 police arrest PEGIDA supporter suspected of bombing Dresden mosque
German police detained a man linked to the anti-Islamic, xenophobic group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamification of the West (PEGIDA) on suspicion of involvement in an attack targeting a Turkish mosque and an event venue in Germany’s Dresden in September. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Nino K. by German media outlets, was detained on Thursday, …
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Missing Muslim teen harassed on subway found in NY
A New York teenager who went missing after she said she was harassed on a train last week has been found. Yasmin Seweid, 18, was found in the early hours of Saturday morning, officials from the Nassau County Police Department’s Missing Persons Squad said. The teen was seen being taken from her Long Island home …
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BBC’s Daesh comedy sketch sparks controversy
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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Old man who abused Polish-Muslim woman in Wales avoids jail
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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Five-year-old boy detained at airport for hours due to Trump ban
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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Man who spray-painted anti-Muslim graffiti, ‘Donald Trump’ on church building gets probation
he Bayonne man charged with spray-painting anti-Muslim graffiti and writing “Donald Trump” on a church building used by the local Muslim community was sentenced to 12 months probation today. As a condition of his sentence, Jonathon Hussey, 20, of West 27th Street, wrote a letter of apology to the St. Henry’s Church pastor and to …
Austria agrees full-face veil ban in public places
Austria’s governing coalition has agreed to ban full-face veils in courts, schools and other “public places” as part of a reform programme aimed at countering the rise of the far-Right in the country. The agreement was made between the ruling coalition of Social Democrats and the centrist People’s party as Chancellor Christian Kern attempts to …
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