When the Masjid Al-Kareem mosque in Providence, Rhode Island, received a threatening letter in November calling Muslims a “vile and filthy people,” its members were frightened enough they asked for and got extra police protection. The 42-year-old mosque was far from alone. The letter it received was one of 2,213 anti-Muslim bias incidents in the …
Read the full post →“Anti-Muslim bias incidents in US increased by 57 pct in 2016, report says”
The Turkish consulate general in Switzerland’s Zurich was vandalized Monday with different colors of paint, while graffiti reading “Kill Erdoğan” was written on a bus stop and a building near the mission. Consul General, Asiye Nurcan İpekçi, told Anadolu Agency that the attack happened in the afternoon. “Police arrived right after the incident and we …
The burka and full-face veil have no place in German society, the country’s interior minister has said. “We are an open society. We show our face. We are not burka,” Thomas de Maiziere wrote in a guest editorial for Bild am Sonntag newspaper. Days after the German parliament voted in favour of a limited burka …
Swedish police said Monday they suspected arson in connection with an overnight fire that damaged a Shiite mosque near the capital, Stockholm. The Imam Ali Islamic Centre in Jarfalla, a municipality north-west of Stockholm, said in a post on Facebook that about one-fourth of the building was destroyed. No one was injured in the blaze …
Read the full post →“Sweden mosque damaged in suspected arson attack”
A woman wearing a burqa was dragged off a London bus by armed police in a counter-terrorism operation that led to another young Muslim woman being shot just a few streets away. Footage shows a passenger, believed to be in her twenties, in full Muslim dress, screaming as a group of undercover officers pull her …
Austria’s Foreign Minister expressed his opposition to Islamic kindergartens in the country, claiming these schools limit the integration of the immigrants. Speaking at a panel discussion organized by Vienna-based German language newspaper Kurier, Sebastian Kurz argued that these schools raise individuals isolated from the society. When asked if these schools should be closed down, Kurz …
Yet another horrifying hate crime has been committed in the United States, once again leaving a victim beaten and bloody for standing up to the bigoted abuse of a white supremacist. Rahma Warsame of Columbus, Ohio, was allegedly beaten unconscious last night by a white male for defending another Muslim woman from harassment, according to …
Read the full post →“A racist brutally beat a Muslim woman unconscious in Ohio”
Myanmar security forces killed three people while clearing a suspected Rohingya insurgent training camp in the mountains in the troubled northwestern state of Rakhine, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar daily said on Thursday. The authorities conducted “area clearance operation” over the last two days, uncovering a tunnel, homemade weapons, huts, rations, utensils and …
Read the full post →“Three Muslim killed as suspected Rohingya insurgent camp found in Myanmar”
A total of 208 Islamophobic attacks took place during the first quarter of 2017 in Germany, according to the German government’s data. German “Neue Osnabürcker Zeitung” reported Sunday that the German government, in response to a parliamentary question, told the Left Party that two people had been injured as a result of Islamophobic attacks, and …
Read the full post →“Over 200 anti-Muslim attacks recorded in first quarter of 2017 in Germany”
The media give considerably more coverage to terrorist attacks by Muslims — particularly if the perpetrator is foreign-born — than to attacks by anyone else, according to a new study. Muslims commit far fewer terrorist attacks than non-Muslims, the research found, but when attacks by Muslims do happen they are written about 4.5 times more …
Read the full post →“Attacks by a Muslim perpetrator get about 4.5 times more media coverage”
