BERLIN (AA) – Three mosques in Germany have received packages and letters in recent days that contained racist threats against Muslims, officials have revealed. The Turkish-Muslim group DITIB, which runs the three mosques in northwestern Germany, condemned the racist incident and called on authorities to take...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The world must “stand together against Islamophobia,” Australia’s foreign minister has said. Penny Wong’s remarks came after two mosques in Adelaide, South Australia, were hit by arson attacks last week, a development she said left her “appalled.” “All of us, including every political leader, must stand ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Joseph Czuba, the 71-year-old suspect in the killing of a Palestinian American boy, made his initial court appearance on Monday. Czuba only made limited comments in court, accepting a public defender to handle his case. He was the landlord for Hanaan Shahin, 32, and her 6-year-old son Wadea Al-Fayoume. Prosecutors said ...
Washington, United States – AFP A US landlord was charged with murder and hate crimes Sunday after allegedly stabbing a Muslim woman and her six-year-old son dozens of times in an attack that police linked to last week’s Hamas attack on Israel. The child, who was stabbed 26 times, died at hospital, but the 32-year-old […]
GENEVA (AA) – The Berlin police have banned rallies in support of Palestine, in order to prevent “incitement of anti-Semitic exclamations” and “glorification of violence”. In Berlin, two solidarity rallies with Palestinians were planned for Wednesday under the banners “Solidarity with All Political Prisoners on Pa...
BERLIN (AA) – Radical Islamophobic neo-Nazis threw stones at a mosque in the western city of Siegburg on Friday night, the latest in a string of attacks targeting Germany’s Muslim community. The assailants entered the mosque complex at around 11:10 p.m local time, smashed the windows, and left a flyer of the neo-Nazi group, ‘Letzte...
Residents saw the front door smashed, donation boxes forced open and other items damaged. LONDON – A well-known Islamic cultural center in west London reported that an apparent Islamophobic attack was carried out on its property on the night of September 26. Residents saw the front door smashed, donation boxes forced open and other items...
Jama, a Somali-American Muslim woman, was forced to remove her hijab for a photo that was then used on her ID card SAINT PAUL, Minnesota – A lawsuit has been filed against the federal correctional facility FCI Waseca in Minnesota for violating religious rights. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN human rights chief on Thursday called for immediate action against the rising incidents of the desecration of religious places and symbols worldwide. “Human Rights Council resolution 53/1 noted with deep concern the rising incidents of desecration of places of worship and religious symbols across the world, cal...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The UN human rights chief on Wednesday slammed recent “despicable incidents” of desecration of Muslims’ religious scripture in Europe. They are “deliberate provocations… intended to drive wedges between countries and communities,” Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said at a high-level conf...
