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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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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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, 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 …
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 …
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 …
Birgül Yücel is preparing to file a lawsuit against an Austrian doctor who rejected her job application because she was wearing headscarf. The headscarf, also referred to as hijab, is “a radical religious symbol” according to Dr. Anton Glöcklhofer. The rejection echoes a similar incident in Germany’s Stuttgart where a dentist rejected to hire a …
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Anti-Islamic graffiti has been sprayed on a mosque in North Lanarkshire. The words “Saracen Go Home” and the term “Deus Vult”, translated from Latin as “God Willing”, were painted on two walls of the mosque in Cumbernauld. The attack, being treated as a hate crime, happened sometime between 21:00 on Friday and 07:30 on Saturday. …
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Amazon has removed a third-party line of ‘door and dog mats’ featuring the Arabic word for God – Allah – after a complaint from Muslim users, including a British politician. The mats – sold through Amazon by a number of independent users including ‘Dargon One’, ‘Trendy Mats’ and ‘Gear One’ – had been garnering complaints …
In-flight meal choices of international passengers could be a potential profiling tool for national authorities, a senior airline manager has told border officials. Marina Ripa-Braescu, the facilitation and security manager for Swiss International Air Lines, told a conference on border security in Hungary last week that information about pre-ordered meals could be used to help …
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