Sikh group calls for hate-crime charges in East Bay attack
Source: SF Gate By Jenna Lyons As a practicing Sikh, Khalsa said his hair is sacred, and when a group of men attacked him in Richmond and slashed his locks […]
UK woman’s hijab ripped off in hate attack in London
Source: Gulf News London: In a racially-motivated attack, a young woman’s hijab was ripped off on a busy London street in broad daylight, prompting Scotland Yard to launch a probe into the assault. The force is treating the incident in north London as a racially motivated assault on the victim […]
Hate Crimes Against American Muslims Most Since Post-9/11 Era
Source: The New York Times By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — Hate crimes against American Muslims have soared to their highest levels since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, […]
Detectives: Suspect in Florida mosque fire confessed
Source: Associated Press By TERRY SPENCER FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — An ex-convict who posted anti-Islamic rants online confessed to setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter […]
Islamic community plans to rebuild mosque damaged in blaze
Source: Associated Press By TERRY SPENCER FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — The Islamic community says it will repair and reopen the arson-damaged Florida mosque that was occasionally attended by Orlando […]
Man charged, allegedly threatened to blow up Minneapolis mosque
Source: MPR News A 57-year-old man confessed to threatening to blow up a Minneapolis mosque, prosecutors said Wednesday. The office of the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota said Daniel George Fisher sent an anonymous, handwritten letter to Tawfiq Islamic Center September 30, 2015 to scare its members. The letter threatened to […]
Hundreds at New York mosque mourn woman murdered in ‘hate crime’
Source: The Guardian By Mazin Sidahmed Hundreds of people gathered at a mosque in Queens, New York, on Friday to mourn a 60-year old Bangladeshi woman murdered in what they say […]
Pakistan Court clears all accused in church attack case
Source: Deccan Chronicle Lahore: A court has cleared all the 46 people accused of attacking a church and houses of Christians in a neighbourhood near Lahore’s Sanda police station over faulty investigation and prosecution. Reports suggest that the mob had attacked the Christian neighbourhood after accusing one of the residents […]
Hundreds at New York mosque mourn woman murdered in ‘hate crime’
theguardian: by Mazin Sidahmed — Nazma Khanam’s death comes just weeks after two men were shot in the back of the head after midday prayers, rocking the Queens Bangladeshi community The NYPD has no leads on who the killer is or what the motive may be, but many members of […]
Grand Jury Returns Five-Count Indictment in Killing of Queens Imam and Aide
Source: The New York Times A grand jury has returned a five-count indictment, including one for first-degree murder, against the 36-year-old man accused of the execution-style shootings of an imam […]
Prosecutors say Dylann Roof ‘self-radicalized’ online, wrote another manifesto in jail
Source: The Washington Post By Mark Berman The man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a historic Charleston, S.C., church last year “self-radicalized” online, absorbing violent white supremacist beliefs from the […]
Police Thought This Florida Mosque Fire Was Accidental, But Now Say It’s Arson
Source: BuzzFeed News By Talal Ansari BuzzFeed News Reporter A fire at a small one-story mosque in Tampa, Florida — originally thought to be caused by a faulty electrical cord — […]
Texas Muslims threatened amid increasing Islamophobia
Source: Aljazeera Politicians and law enforcement agencies have been slow to support Muslims facing growing threat of violence. Vincent Simon, left, and Mujeeb Kazi say a recent threat against their […]
Man Charged With Murdering Muslim Cleric And Assistant, Denies Being The Killer
Source: Huffington Post A New York City man appeared in court on Tuesday and denied charges he shot and killed a Muslim cleric and his assistant on a street in […]
Family of Man Charged in Killing of Queens Imam Insists He Is Innocent
Source: The New York Times By RICK ROJAS and EMILY PALMER They arrived early, an hour before the judge started hearing cases on Thursday, taking up much of a long […]
Westbrook police offer reassurance after anonymous threats against Muslims
Source: Portland Press Herald BY DENNIS HOEY STAFF WRITER Several members of Westbrook’s Muslim community were so terrified by threatening notes left at an apartment complex Wednesday morning that they […]
Oklahoma man jailed in killing accused of anti-Muslim rants
Source: Associated Press ULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man suspected of fatally shooting a male neighbor was accused of harassing and shouting anti-Muslim slurs at the man’s family, who […]
Brooklyn Man Charged With Killing Imam and Assistant Near Mosque
Source: The New York Times By RICK ROJAS, LIZ ROBBINS, NOAH REMNICK and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM Two days after an imam and his assistant were gunned down after afternoon prayers […]
The Hit-and-Run That Led the NYPD to an Imam’s Alleged Murderer
Source: The Daily Beast By MICHAEL DALY The Hit-and-Run That Led the NYPD to an Imam’s Alleged Murderer Less than 48 hours after an imam and his assistant were gunned […]
‘Our Community Lost Its Heart’: Queens Imam Is Recalled as Peacemaker
Source: The New York Times By LIZ ROBBINS, NOAH REMNICK and JULFIKAR ALI MANIK Imam Alauddin Akonjee delivered his weekly sermon on Friday in his quietly powerful manner, drawing, as […]