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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A Saudi student attending the University of Wisconsin-Stout has died after being attacked over the weekend. No arrests have been made connection with the death of 24-year-old Hussain Saeed Alnahdi, who was left bloodied in the street. Investigators are treating the incident as a homicide, the Menomonie Police Department said in a statement issued Monday. …
The US has witnessed more than 700 incidents of hateful harassment since Donald Trump’s election amid fears anti-Muslim hate crimes are reaching post-9/11 levels. There have reportedly been at least 701 examples of hate crime, including one woman being told: “I’ll spit on you, you dirty bitch. I can smell the Africa on you”, since …
The increasing number of Islamophobic attacks including the beating of Muslim women in the streets, has given way to fear among Muslims, especially the youth and now well-educated Turks have started thinking of returning home to Turkey. Germany has been home to millions of Turks who immigrated to the country in the 1960s and onward …
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Tell MAMA, the national anti-Muslim hate monitoring group, said there was a rise in reported attacks in the months after May 2013 . There were 21 the following year, followed by 24 in 2015 and 12 up until September this year. The three main categories of anti-Muslim incident involved criminal damage to mosques, vandalism and …
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The Bay Area is incredibly diverse and the national divide exposed by the presidential election is hitting home. There have been at least two reported hate crime incidents on local college campuses. One student said Monday she does not plan to stop wearing her head scarf but she also says she’s taking precautions to make …
Number of anti-Muslim hate crimes rose in 2015 to the highest level since the aftermath of 9/11. Hate crimes against Muslims in the United States shot up 67 percent in 2015 to their highest levels since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, according to new FBI statistics. Overall, 57 percent of the 5,850 …
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An Israeli Cabinet panel voted Sunday to endorse a piece of legislation that would silence mosque loudspeakers that broadcast the call to prayer, kicking up charges of discrimination from the country’s Arab minority and Palestinian people. The vote by the Cabinet panel on Sunday means the legislation will be introduced in parliament as a bill …
