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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A train driver supposedly kicked off a 14-year-old for wearing a headscarf in the German district of Friedrichshagen in east Berlin. The young girl told the police that she got on the train, which was going to the train station Friedrichshagen, at about 02:.35 p.m. The driver asked the girl to get off via loudspeakers, …
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A man burst into a Muslim prayer hall in the Swiss city of Zurich on Monday and started shooting, injuring three men, according to police, who have launched a manhunt for the shooter. A body was found a few hundred meters (yards) from the scene, an AFP photographer said, but it was unclear if it …
A Muslim woman in east London had her headscarf pulled off and was dragged along the ground in a “sickening” attack in east London. The 27-year-old woman had been visiting a friend at a hair salon when two white youths approached her from behind and tried to rip off her hijab before pushing her onto …
British police arrested a man who stabbed an Asian man while shouting “I want to kill a Muslim” at a London train station on Monday. The stabbing happened Monday as a train pulled into the Forest Hill station in southeast London. Witnesses said the attacker strode through the moving train and selected a victim based …
German police detained a man linked to the anti-Islamic, xenophobic group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamification of the West (PEGIDA) on suspicion of involvement in an attack targeting a Turkish mosque and an event venue in Germany’s Dresden in September. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Nino K. by German media outlets, was detained on Thursday, …
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A New York teenager who went missing after she said she was harassed on a train last week has been found. Yasmin Seweid, 18, was found in the early hours of Saturday morning, officials from the Nassau County Police Department’s Missing Persons Squad said. The teen was seen being taken from her Long Island home …
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