Racism
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Boys, assaulted Imam near Bloomington Mosque: police
A 16-year-old boy from Bloomington was charged with aiding and abetting third-degree assault. He made his first appearance Friday, and his next scheduled appearance is Sept. 23.
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IHRC: BBC has targeted Muslims during coronavirus pandemic
In a letter of complaint by IHRC chair Massoud Shadjareh to BBC Director General Tony Hall, the IHRC said the broadcaster had used the pandemic to spread negative imagery about Muslims to create negative perceptions about the community.
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Islamophobia faced by 80% of Muslims in the UK, report finds
Taj Khan is shielding from coronavirus. But there's no protection from the islamophobia she suffers on a daily basis.
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22% Swedish don't want Muslim neighbors: Poll
Most participants said it does not matter where their neighbors come from, according to a survey by polling company Novus published in The Local news website.
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Thousands in Australia rally against racism defying public health rules
A last-minute appeal at the New South Wales Court of Appeal allowed a rally in Sydney, where several thousand people marched among heavy police presence, chanting, “Whose lives matter? Black Lives matter.”
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Black Lives Matter: Hundreds protest in Berlin against racism
police spokesman estimated around 1,100 people took part.
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Muslim woman arrested at black lives matter protest, her hijab forcibly removed
Alaa Massri was arrested at a protest June 10, according to the Miami Police Department, and charged with battery, resisting an officer with violence and disorderly conduct. After her arrest, Massri was taken to the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where she says she was asked to remove her hijab for a booking photograph, her lawyer Khurrum Wahid told CNN.
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UK police investigate after attacks on three Teesside mosques
The vandalism has been done at the sites on Bowesfield Lane, Dennison Street and Northcote Street.
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Man jailed over threat to New Zealand Prime Minister and attack mosque
Newcastle District Court judge Tim Gartelmann said right-wing extremist Cormac Rothsey hated Muslims and his actions were motivated by intolerance and chauvinism.
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Unemployed Malaysian charged with insulting Islam on Facebook
Tham Wai Yuen, 47, made the plea after the charges were read out to him before Judge MM Edwin Paramjothy.
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Man in hospital after assault at mosque in St Albans
The incident happened at around 11.35pm last Thursday (June 4). The man who is still in hospital suffered injuries including a fractured rib.
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American mosques to devote jumu’ah khutbas to racism and police brutality
The Islamic Association of North Texas has been holding a series of livestreamed conversations on race between local Muslim leaders. Its previous Friday sermon focused on racism, as will this week’s.
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Mosque attacker caught red-handed in France
The building targeted by the attacker was the Fatih Mosque of the Islamic Community National Vision (IGMG) association in France’s Albertville.
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PKK supporters attack Turkish mosque in Germany
The Eitorf Central Mosque located in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia was attacked by PKK supporters on Wednesday night, who vandalized the walls of the mosque.
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Israeli colonists hurl stone at Teqoua’ town council
Salem Abu Mfarreh, the mayor of Teqoua’, said the colonists stopped their car in front of the Local Council’s building, before jumping out of their vehicle and throwing stones at the building.
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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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Canada:Man fired for Islamophobic tweet
Ravi Hooda protested Brampton city’s decision to extend noise bylaw exceptions to mosques and tweeted: “What’s next? Separate lanes for camel & goat riders?”
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Hate crimes double against Muslims in Norway
The 22-year-old white supremist Philip Manshaus has admitted to firing shots inside the Al-Noor Islamic Centre at Skui in Bærum on August 10 last year. He also has acknowledged how he shot and killed his Chinese-born step-sister at the family’s home at Eiksmarka in Bærum just prior to his attack on the mosque.
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Muslim woman sues police in Yonkers, New York, for forced hijab removal
When Yonkers, New York, police demanded Ihsan Malkawi remove her hijab for her booking photograph, the 42-year-old Muslim woman became distraught.
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UK airport police admits wrong doing in forcing Muslim woman to remove hijab
In October 2018, Asiyah was forced to take off her hijab so male officers could photograph her at London's Heathrow airport. This power granted to officers is known as Schedule 7, which allows individuals to be stopped and searched at UK ports and airports even if there are no grounds for suspicion.
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Muslim Council urge for a Tory party Islamophobia investigation after fresh evidence
The council’s document details allegations against 300 members of the party to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) — double the number of incidents detailed in an initial report handed to the commission in May last year.
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Man found guilty of killing 2 people who tried to stop his anti-Muslim tirade
Jurors found Jeremy Christian, 37, guilty of the deaths of Taliesin Namkai-Meche and Ricky Best. He also was convicted of attempted murder for stabbing survivor Micah Fletcher and assault and menacing for shouting slurs and throwing a bottle at a black woman on another light rail train
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Islamic hate messenger slapped with stay at home sentence
“The nature of the mischief needs to be denounced and deterred,” Justice Howard Borenstein said Friday as he passed sentence on Laura Elliott for the April 2018 incident at Sugar Miracles Patisserie and Cafe at 2674 Yonge St.
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Groups show solidarity in face of Islamophobic graffiti near Brixton mosque
Hate-filled graffiti was found scrawled on a building close to the Brixton Road mosque on New Year’s Day, just three days after anti-Semitic graffiti was found on a synagogue and shops in north London during the Jewish festival of Hanukah.
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Muslim fast food worker says boss sent her home for turning up to work in hijab
She can be heard remonstrating with her boss, saying: ‘It’s a part of my religion. ‘I felt like if i work here y’all could be able to (accommodate) my religion.’ But Adebola’s unnamed boss answers by telling her the headscarf is ‘a different thing…that’s a part of your personal life out there.’
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Ethiopian Muslims protests after mosques are burned
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called the attacks "attempts by extremists to break down our rich history of religious tolerance and coexistence."
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Muslim Council of Britain accuses Boris Johnson of 'deceit' after widening scope of Islamophobia probe
Mr Johnson himself has come in for specific criticism for comparing Muslim women who wear burkas to "letter boxes" and "bank robbers".
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Sheffield Muslim schoolgirl 'throttled with her own hijab' on bus
Redana Al-Hadi said she was travelling home with her sister and a group of friends from Silverdale School when she was throttled with her own hijab.