Al Jazeera: Police in the US city of Boston unjustly spied on thousands of social media posts and specifically targeted Muslims and African Americans for surveillance, a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has alleged. The civil rights organisation said the BPD [Boston Police Department] unfairly focused its surveillance on African Americans and Muslims
The Huffington Post: “White women and men are allowed to apologise and get their career back on track. Minorities on the other hand, one red card and you’re out.” Click here to read more (external link).
VOA News: The first four months of a U.S. refugee program wholly determined by the Trump administration have led to a dramatic decline in Muslim refugees coming to the United States, and a significant shift in where refugees are coming from, according to a VOA review of official data. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV January 14, 2018 The new US ambassador to the Netherlands, Pete Hoekstra, has admitted making anti-Muslim comments in 2015, claiming that Muslims had created so-called “no-go” zones in the country and were burning politicians. In an interview on Friday with the Dutch newspaper Telegraaf, Hoekstra, a former Republican congressman for Michigan, apologized for the
Press TV December 24, 2017 The administration of US President Donald Trump has been trying to blame all of America’s problems on Muslims to create a distraction from his own policies, which favor the rich, argues an American scholar in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Kevin Barrett made the remarks after reports emerged that the new US
Press TV December 23 2017 A video has emerged showing a Muslim teenage girl being violently beaten by three other schoolgirls at a park near their high school in the US state of Florida. The 53-second video, recorded by another student, shows one teenage girl pulls the 14-year-old Muslim girl, identified as Manaal Munshi, by the
Peter Heinlen VOA News / November 29, 2017 WHITE HOUSE — President Donald Trump has re-tweeted three inflammatory anti-Muslim videos that had been posted on Twitter by a far-right British politician, triggering condemnation, repudiation and fears of a backlash against Muslim Americans. It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity or origin of the videos,
Press TV November 14, 2017 The FBI has released new statistics illustrating a nearly 5 percent rise in hate crimes for the second consecutive year in 2016, especially against Muslims. In incidents where the criminals were identified, the FBI found that about 58% of crimes were motivated by the victims’ race, ethnicity or ancestry. Meanwhile,
Press TV / September 25, 2017 Citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen will face new restrictions in travelling to the United States based on the latest proclamation signed by President Donald Trump. The new rules, announced on Sunday, will go into effect on October 18. The range of restrictions
The Guardian (UK): Shakila Zareen’s asylum application was initially approved after her husband shot her, but it was later denied under Donald Trump’s new US migration policies. When Shakila Zareen learned that her husband planned to kill her, she fled to her mother’s house. A few hours later, she was alone in the living room when her