Press TV September 19, 2018 Muslim worshippers leaving a mosque in London have been hit by a car in a possible hate crime that saw the driver hurling Islamophobic slurs at the people taking part in a religious ceremony for the grandson of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. UK police and officials at the Hussaini Association located in
The Huffington Post: Patrick Stein, 49, Curtis Allen, 50, and Gavin Wright, 52, are accused of plotting to bomb an apartment complex that housed many Somalis and its on-site mosque. The three are believed to have gathered fertilizer to make a bomb while they added to their arsenal of weapons and ammunition. Click here to
HuffPost: Jurors in a federal courthouse Thursday were played recording after recording of three militia members spewing genocidal hatred of Muslims. The three men — Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen — are accused of being involved in a 2016 terrorism plot to bomb an apartment complex that housed Somali Muslim refugees and a mosque
Press TV March 17, 2018 The rhetoric adopted by US President Donald Trump against minorities, especially Muslims, has encouraged violence against followers of that religion, says a human rights activist and researcher in Washington. “Speaking with violence, acting with violence against minorities is okay” in America, because Trump has made it acceptable,” said Ilhan Cagri,
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,
Daily Beast: Saturday’s bombing of a Minnesota mosque was just one violent incident in a long string of them. When will they get the attention they deserve? If a Christian church in America were bombed in what the state’s governor labeled an “act of terrorism” and countless other churches were intentionally burned to the ground over the past
The Huffington Post: Minnesota’s governor on Sunday called the early morning bombing of a mosque in Bloomington an “act of terrorism.” “What a terrible, dastardly, cowardly act was committed,” Gov. Mark Dayton (D) said during a visit to the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center. “It is a criminal act of terrorism.” The FBI is leading the investigation into the
Press TV July 26, 2017 American Muslims say they have experienced deep suspicion about their faith since Donald Trump took office in January, a survey shows. Almost three-quarters of US Muslims see Trump as unfriendly toward them, shows a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday. The Pew survey, which is its third on American Muslims