Local Muslim community leaders are calling for a hate crime investigation into vandalism at the University of Minnesota. This isn’t the first incident this week, either. The University of Minnesota is calling this the second hate based incident on campus in the last 48 hours. Someone spray painted “ISIS” on the Muslim Student Association sign. …
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A civil rights group has called for more police protection of mosques after several in California received letters that praised President-elect Donald Trump and threatened Muslim genocide. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said the same handwritten, photocopied letter was sent last week to the Islamic Center of Long Beach, the Islamic Center of …
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The North Dakota state capitol is reportedly under a lockdown order while more than a dozen people were arrested for protesting against the Dakota Access pipeline. According to witness accounts shared on Twitter, dozens of people gathered on a lawn outside the state capitol building in solidarity with protesters against the $3.8 billion pipeline, which …
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A 5-year-old nursery schoolchild was grabbed by the neck and called a “bad Muslim boy” by his teacher in North Carolina, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a letter to authorities. In a letter sent to the public school system in Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday, CAIR lawyer Maha Sayed, said harsh …
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KKK, neo-Nazis and militias plan to monitor urban polling places and suppress the black vote. Neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin plans to muster thousands of poll-watchers across all 50 states. His partners at the alt-right website “the Right Stuff” are touting plans to set up hidden cameras at polling places in Philadelphia and hand out liquor …
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A Redmond mosque was vandalized overnight Monday night in a “clear act of hate,” according to a leader of the organization. The president of the Muslim Association of Puget Sound — known as MAPS — Mahmood Khadeer announced Tuesday that the main granite sign in front of the mosque had been smashed. Khadeer wrote that …
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A Saudi student attending the University of Wisconsin-Stout has died after being attacked over the weekend. No arrests have been made connection with the death of 24-year-old Hussain Saeed Alnahdi, who was left bloodied in the street. Investigators are treating the incident as a homicide, the Menomonie Police Department said in a statement issued Monday. …
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 …
A police officer in Minnesota who shot and killed Philando Castile, during a routine traffic stop, was charged with second-degree manslaughter. Castille’s girlfriend went on Facebook Live following the incident. Ramsey County Attorney John Choi made the announcement during a Wednesday morning press conference that officer Jeronimo Yanez will face three charges for shooting and …
The week following Donald Trump’s election win was marked by countless acts of hate and violence carried out across the country. Reports of vandalized property, verbal attacks and physical assaults on Muslim, Jewish, Black, Latino and LGBT communities inundated news outlets, leaving many members of these communities fearful for what the future would bring. In …
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