Islamophobia
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Pig's head placed on mosque door in German city
The incident was recorded by the surveillance cameras at the mosque. In the footage, the perpetrators are seen driving a company van from a neighboring city. After they attached the pig’s head to the main entrance of the mosque, they took photos of their act. The unidentified individuals are said to be between 25 and 30 years old.
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UK: Young Muslim woman shot dead in drive-by shooting
The victim has been identified by some social media users as Aya Hachem, a Lebanese-British Muslim.
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Mosque, social center in Germany’s Cologne attacked
The assailants threw stones at the two institutions and damaged several windows. The Turkish Embassy in Cologne slammed the attack on Twitter calling for the attackers to be sought out and brought to justice.
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Pakistan calls for UNSC to stop atrocities against Muslims in India, occupied Kashmir
“We are, unfortunately, witnessing a global resurgence of right wing and fascist ideologies, hate speech, xenophobia, Islamophobia, incitement to violence and acts of brutal violence,” Ambassador Munir Akram said during a Security Council “Arria Formula” meeting on Friday.
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Arrest made in fire that damaged Missouri Islamic center
Police said in a news release that Nicholas Proffitt was arrested Monday night for the Friday fire at the Islamic Center of Cape Girardeau, which is in southeast Missouri. Proffitt, 42, of Cape Girardeau, is charged in a warrant with first-degree arson, burglary and felony property damage.
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OIC condemns violence against Indian Muslims amid COVID-19
The Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organization in a tweet said Indian media is negatively profiling the Muslims in media and subjecting them to discrimination and violence with impunity.
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Trevor Phillips dismayed at Labour suspension over Muslim comments
Phillips, a pioneering anti-racism campaigner who previously chaired the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has been suspended from Labour pending an investigation and could be expelled.
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Islamophobia 'everyday issue' for more than a third of Scottish Muslims
Holyrood's cross-party group on Islamophobia found more than 80% of Muslims had been subjected to abuse because of their faith at some stage.
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Germany: Shots fired near home of Turkish-Muslim cleric
The Turkish-Muslim umbrella group DITIB said in a statement that its Secretary-General Abdurrahman Atasoy’s family house in the southwestern city of Heilbronn was targeted in a suspected shooting incident on Saturday night.
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Muslim Council of Britain responds to Islamophobic comments of airline CEO
“Michael O’Leary should be under no illusion: his comments are racist and discriminatory. He openly advocates discrimination against “males of a Muslim persuasion”, which presumably is not based on specific intelligence but solely whether someone ‘looks or acts like a Muslim’. This is the very definition of Islamophobia.
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Muslim council of Britain responds to Hanau terrorist attack
“Our thoughts are with the victims of the terror attacks last night in Hanau, Germany targeting migrants in a shisha bar. This attack, which has come just days after 12 people were arrested in Germany for plotting large-scale attacks on mosques shows the deep-seated Islamophobia poisoning large swathes of the far-right.