The disturbance at the Middle Eastern restaurant morphed within minutes from bizarre to a violent, one-sided assault. Jason Kendall was walking down State Street about 3 p.m. Saturday when he saw a woman standing inside Al Aqsa Restaurant in Salem, Ore., according to Fox affiliate KPTV. The Mediterranean food joint is a few blocks from …
Muslims inside FBI describe culture of suspicion and fear: ‘It is cancer’
Muslim special agents and intelligence analysts at the FBI are reporting a climate of fear inside the agency coinciding with the political ascendance of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned. FBI officials from Muslim-majority countries, a minority in a predominantly white bureau, say they are subject to an organizational culture of suspicion and hostility that …
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Germany’s right-wing populist AfD party demands ‘immediate closure of borders’ and Islamic headscarf ban in election manifesto
The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party called for closing borders, restricting Islamic practices and fighting the ruling ‘oligarchy’ in its election campaign programme released on Thursday. Polling at around 11 per cent now, the four-year-old AfD aims to become the first party to the right of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc to enter …
A Muslim woman was sworn at, then punched in the neck in New York
Police in Queens, New York, are hunting for a woman who insulted and punched a Muslim woman on the street earlier this month. The woman, according to police, approached a 26-year-old woman and told her “you stink, you f___ing Muslim,” before punching her in the side of her neck, according to New York’s Pix11 and …
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French mayor faces €1,800 fine after bringing up ‘problem’ of Muslim schoolchildren
A far-right French mayor has appeared in court on charges of inciting hatred for his remarks last year, in which he said that there were too many Muslim children at the schools in his city, and implied that the ethnic French population is being “replaced.” Robert Menard, mayor of the southern town of Béziers and …
Far-right group hangs banner on Turkish embassy in Vienna reading ‘Erdoğan, pull your Turks back’
Members of a far-right group hung a banner reading “Erdoğan, pull your Turks back” over the roof of Turkish embassy in Vienna on Wednesday. According to information gathered from diplomatic sources, two suspects jumped over the roof from a neighbouring building. After realizing that they were detected, the two suspects immediately fled the scene. Sources …
A young British Muslim: “I’ve been kicked out a mosque for reading Quran”
A few days ago, a German school announced that it had banned Muslim students from using prayer mats in order to stop them from displaying their religion “in a provocative manner”. I read this with a sad sense of familiarity: it reminds me of the sense of fear and anxiety that I myself feel as …
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In Denmark, the unemployed who wear headscarf will not be paid the unemployment benefit
Denmark took the decision last month of the European Court of Justice, the highest judicial organ of the European Union, one step further, and took steps to cut the salary of unemployed unemployed who did not withdraw their headscarf. The European Court of Justice ruled on 14 March that employers’ employees could ban “any political, …
Muslim students asked ‘Do you beat your wife?’ by Oklahoma lawmaker
Muslim students visiting an Oklahoma lawmaker’s office in the state capitol were required to fill out a form that asked if they beat their wives and other questions that offended them, an Islamic advocacy group said. The two-page form from Republican state Representative John Bennett’s office, which was shared by the Council on American-Islamic Relations …
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Many Muslims feel so discriminated against they’re making plans to leave the US, poll says
The past year was a rough one for American Muslims, who’ve shared one story after another of hearing slurs at the grocery store, watching their mosques burn, and learning taekwondo to fend off attackers. Such experiences, dismissed by anti-Muslim pundits as exaggerated, are backed up by poll results released Tuesday that show a community that’s …
