Female Muslim students in Austria make up over 73 percent of the total number of people subjected to discrimination at schools, a report by an Austria-based association said Monday, as Muslims express concern over growing Islamophobia throughout the country. According to the report by the Initiative for Discrimination-Free Education (IDB), Muslim female students faced the …
Austria: Muslim kindergarten study reviewed for text changes
A study commissioned by an Austrian government minister critical of Vienna’s Muslim-run kindergartens has ignited a political fight between the minister’s party and rivals seizing on allegations that his staff rewrote parts of the study to make it more negative. The study’s author, a professor at the University of Vienna, says he would never allow …
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Netherlands high school bans students wearing headscarf from graduation ceremony
A high school in the Netherlands said on Monday that students wearing headscarves would not be allowed into the graduation ceremony. Melanchton High School’s branch located in Rotterdam’s Schiebroek sent an invitation to graduating students and their parents, which stated that the students are not allowed to attend the event with their headscarves. The “Denk” …
Black muslim public speaker Yasmin Abdel is leaving Australia
Muslim public speaker and former ABC presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied is London-bound, calling it an “Australian rite of passage” after months of criticism over her views on Anzac Day. She announced on Instagram that she was moving to London. In April, Ms. Abdel-Magied’s Anzac Day Facebook post — calling for Australians to remember Syrians, Palestinians and …
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Man eggs Muslim neighbor’s car 2x, leaves note, calls all Muslims ‘cockroaches’
A cemetery groundskeeper pelted his Muslim neighbor’s vehicle with eggs and tomatoes, left a handwritten note under the windshield mocking Mecca and later caused a traffic crash on Georgia Avenue all in effort to stop a fictitious web of terrorists, police say. Jeffrey Frizzell, 58, of Aspen Hill, is currently charged with first-degree assault, second-degree …
Gunmen open fire outside Avignon mosque in France, eight injured
Eight people have been injured, including a seven-year-old girl, after gunmen opened fire outside a mosque in southeast France. The shooting, which was not being treated as terrorism, took place in Avignon, Provence, at about 10.30pm on Sunday night. Worshippers were leaving the Arrahma mosque when at least two “hooded men” pulled up in a …
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Somali-Americans threatened at Walmart, “We’re gonna kill all of ya”
The three Muslim Somali-American women were in a parking lot when the incident took place. The attacker told the girls they would all be killed. A woman who verbally attacked and threatened three Muslim women in a Walmart parking lot will lose her job thanks to her disgraceful attitude, West Fargo Pioneer reports. Amber Elizabeth …
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Man tries to drive car into crowd outside of French mosque, police say
French police arrested a man who attempted to drive a car into a group of people in front of a mosque in Créteil, a suburb of Paris. Witnesses saw the man try and fail to drive over roadside barriers to reach the area directly in front of the mosque on Thursday evening. He did not …
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Far-right protesters lock doors of Muslim school on first day of term
Far-right protesters have hung death’s-head images from the doors of an Islamic primary school in Leiden as children returned from the summer holiday. Teachers arriving at the IBS Er-Risèlèh school on Monday found a bicycle lock had been put on the doors of the building and a note referring to terrorist attacks in Europe. ‘We …
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Racists are targeting mosques across Spain with flares, graffiti and abuse after Barcelona
The Sevilla Mosque Foundation’s centre was targeted with anti-Muslim hate speech, such as ‘Killers, you’re going to pay’, and another one that used a slur for North Africans. The graffiti, which was discovered on Saturday morning, also included threats to behead Muslims with machetes. At the same time a mosque in Granada was attacked with …
