Chicago’s Downtown Islamic Center was the target of a hate crime Sunday night. Worshippers shared how they were entering the mosque for prayers and faced verbal abuse and threats from a man shouting “All Muslims should die.” The perpetrator returned then with an object, smashing the mosque’s glass door. The incident unfolde...
By Taha Ghayyur (Executive Director, Justice For All Canada) Dehumanization, which paves the way for hate and persecution, is a distressing tactic employed by various states to strip certain groups of their inherent human qualities, identity, and dignity. This process not only facilitates but also justifies the systematic persecution of these ...
LONDON (AA) – For the Muslim community in London, the holy month of Ramadan has started this year with a sense of trepidation. A spike in Islamophobia spurred by Israel’s war on Gaza and recent break-ins at mosques have heightened fears and sparked calls for increased security measures. Since mid-February, there have been a series […]...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – The British government on Monday announced more than £117 million ($150 million) in funds to protect mosques, Muslim schools and community centers in the UK from hate attacks over the next four years. The move follows Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s pledge in late February to provide more than £70 million to [&hel...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco banned the distribution of a French magazine containing cartoons deemed offensive to Prophet Muhammad, a government source told Anadolu on Friday. The source, who did not want to be named, said that the ban was imposed on the latest issue of the Marianne magazine dated Feb. 29. He said the […]
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been accused of “being complicit” in a wave of Islamophobic racism in the wake of a blatant attack on the London mayor from former Conservative Party’s deputy chairman Lee Anderson. Labour leader Keir Starmer accused Sunak of harboring “extremists in his party” and condemned other seni...
IZMIR, Türkiye (AA) – A mosque in Stockholm has been the target of Islamophobic attacks for over a year, with the latest incident occurring on Wednesday when Muslim faithful read graffiti on the mosque wall with a Swastika sign and a message threatening violence. The Stockholm Mosque in the capital’s Sodermalm district has been subjected...
ANKARA (AA) – The Australian white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019 posted online that he “wanted to attack important places” about four years before the shootings. The independent news website The Conversation shared a report this week analyzing the posts of the...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The money in the Cordoba Foundation’s bank accounts was blocked via “debanking,” causing a “difficult time.” “If you don’t have a bank account, you can’t rent an office, pay salaries, pay your taxes, pay your bills for electricity, for water, for gas, you can’t pay any...
ANKARA (AA) – Harvard University is facing a government investigation for possible discrimination following a civil rights complaint filed by Arab and Muslim students, according to media reports. Since the start of Israel’s assault on Gaza last October, more than 60 investigations by the US Department of Education have been launche...
