The Senate has passed a resolution recognizing the murder of six-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi as a hate crime due to his Muslim and Palestinian identity. Wadee was stabbed to death on October 14 at his home in Plainfield, Illinois. His mother Hanaan Shahin was also attacked but survived. During the attack, the suspect, Joseph Czuba, who […...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – The Missouri Supreme Court and governor declined Monday to halt the execution of death row inmate Imam Marcellus Khalifah Williams. “Mr. Williams has exhausted due process and every judicial avenue, including over 15 hearings attempting to argue his innocence and overturn his conviction,” said Gov. Mike Parson in...
BERLIN (AA) – An apartment fire that claimed the lives of a Turkish Muslim mother and her 4-year-old son was deliberately set, German authorities say. “We do not believe that there was a technical defect, but rather that the fire was caused intentionally,” Ingo Kechichian, a spokesman for public prosecutors, told public broad...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Venezuela has arrested a fourth US citizen linked to an alleged plot to kill President Nicolas Maduro, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello confirmed Tuesday. The American was photographing strategic installations, according to Cabello. “We had been following him. He was captured here in (the capital) Caracas, takin...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – A Turkish-Canadian family-owned restaurant in Quebec’s Oka village was the target of two arson attacks in just over two weeks. Pizza Mozza, owned by three brothers of Turkish origin, was first hit on the night of August 31, resulting in minor damage. Berat Saymadi, one of the owners, told local media […]
KINSHASA, DR Congo (AA) – A military court in DR Congo has sentenced to death 37 people, including three US citizens, for their role in a failed coup earlier this year. The convicts were charged with criminal association, attack, terrorism as well as financing terrorism. Three more foreigners – one each from the UK, Belgium […]
ANKARA (AA) – Australia on Thursday stripped its military officers of distinguished service medals over war crimes in Afghanistan, local media reported. Announcing the decision in parliament, Defense Minister Richard Marles said he stripped a number of current and former defense officers of medals over alleged war crimes that happened un...
Chicago’s Muslim Community Center has been a subject to possible hate crimes. Established in 1969, it is one of the oldest and largest Muslim organizations in Chicago. Chair of the center’s security committee Saif Mazhar says office staff found what looked like bullet holes on the building’s glass doors during Labor Day weekend. When several ...
The federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged in the killing of Tyre Nichols began on Monday. Ex-officers Tadarrius Bean, Justin Smith Jr., and Demetrius Haley will stand trial for federal civil rights and conspiracy charges in connection to Nichols’s death, according to a Department of Justice announcement last year. Nich...
Washington, United States – AFP Five people were shot along a highway in the southern US state of Kentucky, US media reported Saturday, as police hunted for a suspect considered “armed and dangerous.” Randall Weddle, mayor of London, Kentucky, told local media that in addition to the wounded there were more people hurt in a [...
