Colonel who said “You are traitors!” martyred

The military junta that launched the coup attempt on 15 July evening in Istanbul and Ankara arrived in Topkule Barracks. The junta demanded support from Colonel Sait Erturk saying they will launch coup. “What you do is treason. I cannot betray my country. Drop your weapons right away and surrender!” warned Colonel Erturk in response. …

Journalist Marie Colvin died trying to get her shoes, her paper reports

Marie Colvin, a veteran correspondent who was killed in Syria last week, died trying to get her shoes so she could escape a shelling attack, her paper reported Sunday. As is the custom in Syria, she took off her shoes upon entering a building that was serving as a makeshift press center. She was on …

Paris restaurant ‘refuses to serve Muslim women’

A video showing a restaurateur in a Paris suburb apparently refusing to serve two Muslim women has sparked anger in France and calls for protest. In the video, widely shared on social media, the man tells the hijab-wearing women: “Terrorists are Muslims and all Muslims are terrorists.” The incident took place at Le Cenacle restaurant …

Muslim school in Denmark vandalised with anti-Islam graffiti

The first Muslim boarding school, located near Fuglebjerg in southern Zealand, Denmark, was recently vandalized with anti-Islam graffiti. The walls of the school were sprayed with hate messages such as “Fuck Islam” and “Islam out of DK”, while several windows were painted with targets. The school staff were shocked and shaken, and the Danish Islamic …

PVV calls for ban on the Koran and refugee centre closures in election plans

In Holland, the far-right PVV, led by Geert Wilders, has published a one page list of the party’s main campaign points for the March general election. The draft election programme, with the name “The Netherlands is ours again”, contains 11 points, most of which focus on what Wilders’ calls ‘de-islamising’ the Netherlands. The PVV wants …

Muslim doctor in US: “My patient refused to let me treat her because of my religion”

“Making my rounds in the hospital one day, I put my stethoscope to a patient’s chest while she kept her eyes fixed on the television screen over my shoulder. Hours before, bombs had torn through an airport and a train station in Brussels. My 65-year-old patient watched a flurry of images on Fox News showing …

Texas Muslims received death threats amid increasing Islamophobia in US

Vincent Simon recalls feeling shocked when he flipped on the Masjid Al Sahaabah mosque’s voicemail to hear a death threat from a man promising to behead Muslim worshippers. Simon, a US military veteran who converted to Islam some five years ago, said that the small mosque and its attendees are threatened regularly, receiving three or …

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