LONDON (AA) – The Bosnian Mosque in the Swedish city of Norrkoping has been attacked in a “targeted hate crime” in which windows were broken and neo-Nazi slogans written on the walls. “With great shame and deep sadness, we condemn the disgusting attack on the construction of our mosque in Norrkoping, where windows were broken, […]...
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar has criticized the alarming rise of Islamophobia in the US, spotlighting recent comments made by Senator John Kennedy during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. In an op-ed for British daily The Guardian, she said instead of addressing the intended focus on increasing hate against Muslim, Jewish, and Pale...
A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the alarming rise in hate crimes targeting Jewish, Muslim, and Palestinian Americans is drawing mixed reactions. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar praised it, saying she hopes the hearing will inspire meaningful action. The hearing was organized by Senator Dick Durbin as a critical step in addressing hate crimes ...
Republican Senator John Neely Kennedy made unfounded accusations against Maya Berry, Executive Director of the Arab American Institute, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes the other day. Kennedy asked Berry if she supported Hamas and Hezbollah, which are both designated terrorist groups in the US, prompting shocked react...
Hate crimes against Muslims and Palestinians in Chicago have surged by 196% since last October, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR. The spike coincides with Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza, with incidents reported in workplaces, schools, and public spaces. CAIR’s Maggie Slavin highlights that people face backlash for s...
A video posted by Utah Rep. Trevor Lee has ignited a fierce online debate. On Monday, Lee shared a video on X of Shia Muslims observing Arba’in, a significant religious event. The footage, shot from a car window, showed women in black clothing and children observing the event. In his brief commentary, Lee highlighted the […]
ATHENS (AA) – Some 80 Muslim organizations and community leaders called the UK government to take tangible steps to address rising Islamophobia in the country. In a statement, the organizations and community leaders, organized under the Islamophobia Action Group, drew attention to the normalization of Islamophobia, which recently fueled riots ...
LONDON (AA) – Swedish prosecutors have charged two people with inciting hatred during several sacrilegious protests last year, which sparked widespread outrage in Muslim countries. Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem have been formally charged with “offences of agitation against an ethnic or national group” four separate times which they had commit...
Staff at a museum in Queens, New York, are protesting the institution’s ban on the keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian scarf. At least fourteen employees of the Noguchi Museum say the policy, prohibiting “political dress,” discriminates against Palestinians and undermines the legacy of American artist Isamu Noguchi, who was commit...
Britain’s King Charles visited first responders and community members in Southport, where three young girls were killed in a knife attack which sparked nationwide anti-immigration riots. Imam Ibrahim Hussein, Imam (prayer leader) at the Southport mosque, recalls being trapped inside the local mosque as rioters threw bricks outside. ̶...
