Local Muslim community leaders are calling for a hate crime investigation into vandalism at the University of Minnesota. This isn’t the first incident this week, either. The University of Minnesota is calling this the second hate based incident on campus in the last 48 hours. Someone spray painted “ISIS” on the Muslim Student Association sign. …
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Barney Lopez could hear the woman from across the Smith’s grocery store aisles. “You’re a terrorist. Get out of here,” the woman, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, screamed at a female shopper wearing a hijab, a head covering worn by some Muslim women. “I left my cart to see what was going on,” Lopez …
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At least 239 migrants have died in two ship wrecks off Libya, the United Nations said on Thursday. Carlotta Sami, a spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, said the information was confirmed by two survivors brought ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Leonard Doyle, chief spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, said …
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A civil rights group has called for more police protection of mosques after several in California received letters that praised President-elect Donald Trump and threatened Muslim genocide. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said the same handwritten, photocopied letter was sent last week to the Islamic Center of Long Beach, the Islamic Center of …
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The Canadian Parliament has passed an anti-Islamophobia motion on October 26, amid increasing attacks on mosques and Muslim communities in the country and throughout the world. However, the motion has received almost no attention from Canadian media outlets, to the dismay of the Muslim community living in the country. If you Google it, you won’t …
A 5-year-old nursery schoolchild was grabbed by the neck and called a “bad Muslim boy” by his teacher in North Carolina, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a letter to authorities. In a letter sent to the public school system in Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday, CAIR lawyer Maha Sayed, said harsh …
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France’s interior minister has ordered the closure of four mosques that allegedly espoused a ‘radical ideology,’ the latest such shutdowns among dozens since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks nearly a year ago. A state of emergency in France allows for the closing of places of worship where the preaching risks provoking hate, violence or acts …
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A Redmond mosque was vandalized overnight Monday night in a “clear act of hate,” according to a leader of the organization. The president of the Muslim Association of Puget Sound — known as MAPS — Mahmood Khadeer announced Tuesday that the main granite sign in front of the mosque had been smashed. Khadeer wrote that …
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Double Olympic silver medallist Louis Smith has been suspended for two months by British Gymnastics over a leaked video in which he and fellow gymnast Luke Carson appeared to mock Islam. Carson, who retired from gymnastics last year due to injury, was issued with a reprimand. “Louis Smith admitted his behaviour was a breach of …
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Society should no longer say the atrocities of Isis have “nothing to do with Islam” because the approach restricts efforts to fight extremism, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned. The Most Rev Justin Welby has called on all religious leaders to “stand up and take responsibility” for the actions of extremists who claim to be …
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