A firearms store and gun range in suburban Kansas City refused to let a Muslim woman use the range unless she removed her hijab, a Muslim civil rights organization alleged in a federal lawsuit. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the law firm of Baldwin & Vernon in Independence alleges …
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In the report titled “Islamophobia in the Mainstream” published by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), financial aid to anti-Muslim groups in the country was compiled. In the report, it was announced that 35 of the 50 biggest anti-Islamic charities and foundations examined transferred 105 million 865 thousand 763 dollars to 26 anti-Muslim groups in …
Data released Monday indicates that hate crimes against Asian Americans rose by more than 300 percent last year. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism released a compilation of hate crime data this week, and, as NBC News reported, it found that anti-Asian hate crimes rose by 339 percent in 2021 compared with …
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The F.B.I. said it was investigating the bomb threats, which disrupted life on more than a dozen campuses, as racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and hate crimes. The F.B.I. has identified six juveniles as persons of interest in a series of bomb threats that targeted historically Black colleges and universities, a law enforcement official …
A local college district has launched a formal investigation of a faculty member after some controversial comments about Muslims surfaced. “My reaction was one of disbelief that this was happening on a college campus in Southern California,” said Dina Chehata, a civil rights attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Los Angeles. An anonymous source …
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Workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said Wednesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a discrimination complaint on the woman’s behalf with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. “It is commonly known that …
Authorities on Monday identified the fourth victim in a series of killings of Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the deaths sent ripples of fear through Islamic communities nationwide. Three of the slayings happened in the past week. Now law enforcement officials are seeking help finding a vehicle believed to be connected to the …
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