Muslims
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Dog trained to attack Muslims and child on child violence as hate crime rises
Brexit and terrorist attacks have contributed to a culture in which hate crime is rising year on year, experts and victims have suggested.
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Muslims targeted in 47% of hate crimes in England and Wales
In total, there were 103,379 hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales in 2018/19, an increase of ten per cent compared with 2017/18.
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Larijani urges IPU states to pay attention to Palestine issue
Larijani made the remarks in a meeting with the IPU’s Secretary-General Martin Chungong in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, on Monday.
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Istanbul moot: 'Muslims need to bolster civil society'
Introducing the theme of conference, Sami A. Al-Arian, director of the host Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), said that one of the main obstacles for the political progress and economic development of many Muslim societies .
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Teenager attacked with knife in Harlow hate crime incident 'because he is Muslim'
Essex Police are treating the incident as a hate crime as the victim reported he had been assaulted because he is a Muslim.
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China destroys dozens of Uighur cemeteries in drive to 'eradicate' cultural history of Muslims
Over the past two years, tombs have been smashed and human bones scattered in dozens of desecrated cemeteries in China’s northwest region, research by Agence France Presse and satellite imagery analysts Earthrise Alliance has revealed.
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Normalization of racist rhetoric against Muslims threatens European societies
According to experts, the main reason behind the culmination of these anti-Muslim attacks is the discriminatory rhetoric of politicians and media targeting Muslims.
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Muslims are subjected to hate speech the most: Erdoğan
The president's remarks came at a high-level event on combating against hate speech, hosted by Turkey and Pakistan, on the sidelines of the 74th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
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General election 2019 make Muslim voices heard
In the event of an election taking place, the Muslim Council of Britain wants to ensure the voices of Muslim communities are heard by political parties.
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Canadian green party candidate resigns over post about mailing pig carcass to Muslims
In a statement on Thursday afternoon, the Green Party said Schomann had stepped down and would no longer be running for the party.
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UK terrorist man jailed after knife attack in attempt to 'murder a Muslim'
Vincent Fuller, 50, attacked 19-year-old Dimitar Mihaylov's with a 12in kitchen knife the day after the New Zealand shootings, which left 51 people dead.
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Muslims worldwide memorialize Tasoua
Tens of Millions of people, dressed in black, took to the streets and mosques throughout the world today to commemorate the tragedy Tasoua.
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UK man jailed for threats to kill Muslims
Darren Dale, from Blackpool, was visited by police on 14 February after expressing extreme right wing views.
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Australia’s first Muslim film festival opens in Perth
Filmed in Perth and Fremantle, ‘Overcoat’ made its theatrical debut this weekend at the inaugural Muslim Film Festival in Perth.
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Sharp rise in hate crimes against Muslims after Brexit vote in Cheshire
Police figures reveal there were just nine Islamophobic offences in Cheshire in 2013, followed by five in 2014 and 14 in 2015.
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Millions of Muslims to lose Indian citizenship today
The final version of the controversial list called the National Register of Citizens is the result of a six-year effort to ostensibly catalog all the legal residents of the northeastern state of Assam.
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Norway fights hate against Muslims
The Norwegian government already has plans for tackling racism and discrimination in general, along with anti-Semitism.
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Inspection of Muslims at UK ports and airports 'structural Islamopobia
Human rights group, Cage, submitted a report entitled: 'Schedule 7: Harassment at Borders", to the policing regulator, the Independent Office for Police Conduct, highlighting the ‘suspicionless stops’ by UK authorities.
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Scotland’s newest mosque embarking on expansion plans
Now the Stornoway Community Mosque Trust has unveiled expansion plans to create a bigger kitchen area and improved mortuary facilities for preparing bodies for funerals.
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India plans big detention camps for migrants and Muslims
The hunt for migrants is unfolding in Assam, a poor, hilly state near the borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh. This coincides with another setback for Muslims. Less than two weeks ago, PM Modi unilaterally wiped out the statehood of India’s only Muslim-majority state, Jammu and Kashmir.
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More Muslims have been kidnapped, killed In Kaduna, Says Council of Imams
Yusuf Arigasiyu, Secretary of the Council, addressing a press conference in Kaduna insisted that the media had also reported more deaths of Muslim than Christians .
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Iraqi Sunni Friday prayer leaders visit Imam Reza (AS) holy shrine
On the sidelines of the visit, Mohammad Ahmed Rafi, the Sunni Friday prayer leader from Iraq, stated that Sunnis, like their Shia Muslim brothers are devoted to the Infallible Imams,
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'Muslims barred from entering mosques in Kashmir'
India has imposed a curfew and communication blackout on Kashmir for the past 12 days. Also Telephone and internet links were cut and public assembly banned in Kashmir days before New Delhi rescinded the region's autonomy.
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Pakistani PM warns of 'Srebrenica-type' massacre against Muslims in Kashmir
In a Twitter post with a black display picture following his government's announcement to observe India's Independence Day as Black Day.
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Mosques targeted every two days in Germany
Mosques linked to the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB), which has nearly 850 mosques in Germany, were targeted nine times with bomb threats. In the past months, some mosques were set on fire. In some mosques, the Quran was torn, various things were written on the walls, and the mosques were damaged financially.
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Ayatollah Movahedi warns India against oppressing Muslims in Kashmir
“We urge the Indian government to refrain from harsh treatment of Muslims as it will neither be in its interest nor that of the region,”
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Muslim pilgrims converge on Saudi's Mina ahead of Hajj
Pilgrims coming from all over the world will spend one day and one night in prayer before setting out for Mt. Arafat located some 12 kilometers (around 8 miles) from Mecca .
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Over 2 million Muslims in Mecca for start of hajj pilgrimage
Male pilgrims wearing simple terry cloth white garments and women in conservative dress and headscarves are circling the cube-shaped Kaaba .
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The Muslim pilgrimage of Hajj explained
The five-day pilgrimage is a once-in-a-lifetime obligation for all Muslims who have the physical and financial ability to undertake the journey.
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NATO chief denounces US shootings during visit to New Zealand mosque
Stoltenberg, making a two-day trip to New Zealand, visited Christchurch, where 51 Muslim worshippers were killed in the attacks on two mosques. "We see that many of the terrorists are one of us," he said. "They are home-grown, they are coming from our own societies. So this is very much also about addressing the root causes."