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 …
German police raid Berlin mosque in search of terror suspect
The German police on Thursday raided a mosque in Berlin in search of Anis Amri, who is suspected of killing 12 people on Monday when he drove his truck into a crowded Christmas market in the city. Entire sections of Berlin have been closed down due to the police activity there. Local media reports that …
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Canadian Muslims urge government to counter Islamophobia
Canadian Muslim organizations are calling on the federal government to take concrete steps in countering Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination. “As community representatives, we are deeply concerned about the impact of hate crimes and hate incidents on the broader well-being of our communities, and especially on our children,” said the …
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Muslim cultural center in Canada attacked for fourth time
A fire broke out at a Muslim cultural center in Sept-Îles, located in Canada’s Quebec Province, on Friday raising questions of another possible Islamophobic attack. The Muslim cultural center was being used as a prayer room in the town of Sept- Îles with 25,000 inhabitants before becoming unusable despite efforts of the fire department teams. …
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Middle Eastern business in Phoenix targeted by vandals who bust windows
Loyal customers rallied behind a central Phoenix business after it was targeted by vandals for the second time in recent weeks. Sunday morning, the Middle Eastern Bakery and Deli near 16th Street and Thomas Road had its windows patched up with tape after someone used a blunt object to try and shatter the front windows. …
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US state employee accused of snatching Muslim woman’s hijab
The mayor of New Jersey’s largest city is calling for state officials to fire a Department of Labor employee accused of pulling a Muslim woman’s hijab off her head and throwing it on the ground. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka says the unidentified Employment Services worker mocked a woman’s faith at the city’s One-Stop Career Center …
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3 men try to remove Muslim teen’s hijab in NYC metro
The city’s police are investigating a hate crime allegation after three men attempted to remove the headscarf of a Muslim teen at a subway station, authorities said on Friday. The incident took place around 10 p.m. local time on Thursday when the unidentified 18-year-old woman was approached by three men on the platform of the …
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Adam Saleh, YouTube star, thrown off Delta plane in London ‘for speaking Arabic’
Adam Saleh, an American YouTube personality, has published a video which he claims shows him being kicked off a Delta Air Lines plane after he says he had been heard speaking Arabic on the phone to his mother. Saleh, who said he was travelling home to New York, did not say where the incident occurred …
Slovakia adopts law to effectively block Islam from becoming official state religion
The government in Slovakia has approved a law effectively preventing Islam being registered as a state religion for a number of years. The bill was proposed by the Slovak National Party (SNS), and requires a religion to have at least 50,000 followers before it qualifies for state subsidies. According to the most recent census, there …
Muslim woman in Australia attacked with broken bottle after saying ‘happy holidays’ instead of ‘merry Christmas’
A Muslim woman was reportedly subjected to a brutal verbal and physicial attack after her alleged attacker said “merry Christmas” but she replied “happy holidays”. Polie are investigating reports the man stole the woman’s headscarf after the incident at the Beeliar Village shopping complex in Perth, Australia. According to the Islamophobia Register Australia, the assailant …
