A French court in the city of Beauvais has sentenced a man to 12 months in prison for painting racist graffiti on the facade of a local mosque. French press reported that the man had written racist messages on the Hamza mosque and a shop’s wall. Beauvais prosecutor Frederic Trinh said the perpetrator was also […]
The Supreme court has upheld a federal ban preventing anyone placed under a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a gun. The ruling in US v Rahimi, supported by eight justices to one, with Clarence Thomas dissenting, will leave in place legal protections against a major source of gun violence in America. Writing the opinion, [&he...
A 42-year-old woman has been charged for attempting to drown a three-year-old Palestinian-American girl in Texas. According to reports, Elizabeth Wolf approached the child’s mother at a swimming pool, making racist inquiries about their nationality and language before attacking. She jumped into the pool and tried to drag two children to ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An investigation was launched Thursday into “a hate crime” by a driver who broadcast Islamophobic content from a digital screen on top of a moving vehicle in Toronto, according to police. The video contained anti-Islamic statements after displaying footage of Muslims praying. The Hate Crimes Unit started an investigation ...
Gun control advocates and lawmakers have reacted strongly to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision overturning the Trump-era bump stock ban. The ruling in Garland v. Cargill was criticized for allowing the accessory, linked to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, back into circulation. Congress members, like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, condemned the move citing ...
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a ban on bump stocks. It was enacted by the Trump administration after a 2017 deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas. By a 6-3 vote the justices found the Trump administration had exceeded its power when it prohibited an attachment that enables a semiautomatic rifle to fire at […]
A 17-year-old Muslim boy was fatally shot by an off-duty security guard while attempting to return a malfunctioning toy gun at a Big 5 store in Renton, Washington. The guard, Aaron Myers, faces a second-degree murder charge. The teenager, Hazrat Ali Rohani, had come to the store to return a replica gun. Myers claims Rohani […]
Wilmington, United States – AFP A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president. The 54-year-old son of President Joe Biden was convicted on all three of the counts facing him, CNN and other US media reported. Hunter […]
BERLIN (AA) – Former German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel has urged the government to negotiate with Afghanistan’s interim administration for the deportation of Afghan nationals who have committed serious crimes. In an article written for German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, former Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Gabriel said G...
Berlin, Germany — AFP German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that serious criminals should be deported, even if they come from Syria or Afghanistan, after an Afghan asylum seeker allegedly stabbed a police officer to death. He also said that glorifying or celebrating acts of violence was “against all our values”, and could in...
