A Muslim woman had her hijab pulled down on a busy north London street in racially-motivated assault and police is asking for help to find the attackers. London police are asking for help finding two men who pulled off the headscarf of the woman in her 20s, who was shocked and distressed after the Sept. …
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When in last week’s presidential debate Donald Trump suggested that Muslims in the United States should “report when they see something going on,” he sparked a satirical backlash on Twitter mocking the idea that every Muslim has some secret knowledge of terrorism. But the FBI has also aggressively sought terrorism leads from Muslim Americans; a …
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A student in Canada has been told she could not sit an exam after she refused to partially remove her hijab. The girl was asked by a male biology teacher to pull her headscarf behind her ears so he could see if she was wearing headphones, according to a spokesperson for the school in Montreal. …
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With the elections fast approaching, there is an apparent spike in incidents targeting the American Muslim community in the past week alone. 10/15/16: Waterloo, Iowa – The Masjid Al Noor mosque, in Waterloo, Iowa was found to have been vandalized on Saturday. The word “TRUMP” was spray painted on the mosque’s exterior, in large red …
The full-face Islamic veil may be banned in Norwegian schools and universities soon, the government announced on Wednesday, amid a wave of increasing Islamophobia in Europe. Education Minister Torbjorn Roe Isaksen, quoted in the Vart Land newspaper, said the government was seeking “national regulations prohibiting the full-face veil in schools and universities”. Muslim women are …
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In what has been described as a “hate crime” by police, the woman was approached by a man who repeatedly told her to remove her head scarf as she walked alone on Oxford Street, London. When she refused the man became more aggressive and attempted to snatch the hijab, which is a religious covering of …
Around 40 posters with anti-Muslim messages containing profanity were discovered on Tuesday at the University of Calgary campus located in Canada’s Alberta province. The hateful messages follow anti-Sikh posters which were posted two weeks ago on the same campus. Calgary police and the university are collaborating to find the perpetrators through investigating security cameras and …
Thousands of supporters of the anti-migrant organization Pegida gathered in the east German city of Dresden to celebrate the second anniversary of the group’s founding Sunday. According to the research group Durchgezaehlt, between 6,500 and 8,500 people gathered at Dresden’s Theaterplatz, with several hundred counterdemonstrators protesting some distance away. A massive police presence has accompanied …
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A Muslim man was told to leave a Southwest Airlines flight after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic on his mobile phone. Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a 26-year-old Berkeley graduate, was removed from the plane at Los Angeles International Airport in April this year. Once seated, he had made a brief call to his uncle in Baghdad, …
Three white men were arrested on Friday in Garden City, Kansas over a planned bombing of a nearby mosque. Though most headlines and articles have referred to the men as “miltia men,” it is clear that what they were plotting was domestic terrorism and therefore, they are would-be terrorists. The discovery of the men’s plot …
