Press TV June 11, 2016 A US Army officer has been arrested for trying to kill Muslim worshipers and making death threats against members of a mosque in North Carolina before they were going to pray in observance of the holy Ramadan, authorities say. US Army Reserve major Russell Thomas Langford also left bacon at
Press TV June 7, 2016 Chinese authorities have ordered students, civil servants and many other residents of the mainly-Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang to avoid fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. “Party members, cadres, civil servants, students and minors must not fast for Ramadan and must not take part in religious activities,” a notice posted
Press TV June 6, 2016 Presumptive US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has defended his racist remarks about a judge with Mexican heritage overseeing a lawsuit against Trump University, saying a Muslim judge might be biased against him as well. Trump said in a CNN interview last week that US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the
Press TV June 6, 2016 A Muslim man in New York City has been hospitalized after sustaining serious injuries in an attack by assailants outside of a mosque. The local chapter of the so-called Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said Sunday that Mohamed Rasheed Khan, 59, was brutalized by three men as he was leaving
Press TV May 26, 2016 A study has found that Muslim women face a double bind of religious and gender discrimination in the British society, which subjects them to harassment and abuse. Britain’s Faith Matter group and the European Network Against Racism conducted a research about the impact of Islamophobia on Muslim women across the UK.
The Hill: Donald Trump stood by his call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. Wednesday, saying he doesn’t care if it hurts him in the general election. “I don’t care if it hurts me,” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday. “I’m doing the right thing when I do this. And whether
May 3, 2016 TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Anti-Muslim acts in France tripled in 2015, with peaks in activity coming after two sets of deadly terror attacks that hit Paris last year, a government advisory commission said. A total of 429 anti-Muslim threats or hate crimes were reported last year, up from 133 in 2014, according to
Press TV April 28, 2016 A Bulgarian town that is home to a Roma minority practising Islam has banned Islamic face veils in public for the first time in the country. Politicians in Pazardzhik, a town of some 70,000 people, adopted the ban on Wednesday in all administrative buildings, schools, shops and on the street
Press TV April 14, 2016 The US Justice Department has warned that top prosecutors from across America are concerned over an increasing spate of anti-Muslim threats in the country. The department said on Wednesday that senior attorneys from 11 US states including California and Colorado have expressed worries about the increase in anti-Muslim threats. It
Counter Punch: Bombs explode in a subway. The victims are everyday people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. What follows is outrage: track down the perpetuators. The people who set off the bombs are monsters and inhuman fanatics, thunder the authorities. But the year is not 2016, it is 1883…