When in last week’s presidential debate Donald Trump suggested that Muslims in the United States should “report when they see something going on,” he sparked a satirical backlash on Twitter mocking the idea that every Muslim has some secret knowledge of terrorism. But the FBI has also aggressively sought terrorism leads from Muslim Americans; a …
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With the elections fast approaching, there is an apparent spike in incidents targeting the American Muslim community in the past week alone. 10/15/16: Waterloo, Iowa – The Masjid Al Noor mosque, in Waterloo, Iowa was found to have been vandalized on Saturday. The word “TRUMP” was spray painted on the mosque’s exterior, in large red …
A police officer shot and killed a 66-year-old woman in New York after she allegedly attacked him with a baseball bat. The officer who fired his weapon, identified as sergeant Hugh Barry, responded to a call about an “emotionally disturbed” woman acting “irrationally” at her apartment in the Castle Hill neighbourhood in the Bronx. Mr …
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Three white men were arrested on Friday in Garden City, Kansas over a planned bombing of a nearby mosque. Though most headlines and articles have referred to the men as “miltia men,” it is clear that what they were plotting was domestic terrorism and therefore, they are would-be terrorists. The discovery of the men’s plot …
The Muslim family of an award-winning computer data scientist decided to leave the United States after the latest incident of Islamophobia involved the youngest child being repeatedly bullied. Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, a two-time Fulbright Scholar who uses data to prevent terror attacks, moved his family across the world to Pakistan over the weekend after sharing a …
On Sept. 23, Alabama police chief Barry Pendergraft posted a video of himself loading the bullets with the text, “100 more bacon grease covered bullets in the box! This relaxes me so!!” On Sept. 27, Pendergraft uploaded a picture of a box filled with the ammunition. He posted, “Happiness is a couple thousand rounds in …
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A Muslim man was told to leave a Southwest Airlines flight after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic on his mobile phone. Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a 26-year-old Berkeley graduate, was removed from the plane at Los Angeles International Airport in April this year. Once seated, he had made a brief call to his uncle in Baghdad, …
A town in Pennsylvania is calling for their mayor to step down as he continues to post racist memes on Facebook. Charles Wasko, the Republican mayor of West York, has received waves of criticism after sharing incendiary memes, including one that suggests President Barack Obama should be lynched. He also shared an image depicting the …
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Two Tunisian men who spent 12 years in U.S. custody in Afghanistan said CIA interrogators tortured them using previously unreported techniques that included threatening them with a makeshift electric chair and beating them with batons so brutally that they suffered broken bones, Human Rights Watch reported on Monday. The accounts, which could not be independently …
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The US has witnessed more than 700 incidents of hateful harassment since Donald Trump’s election amid fears anti-Muslim hate crimes are reaching post-9/11 levels. There have reportedly been at least 701 examples of hate crime, including one woman being told: “I’ll spit on you, you dirty bitch. I can smell the Africa on you”, since …
