CHRISTCHURCH – AA: One survivor of the attack on a mosque in New Zealand is on a journey for peace, walking the literal path of the killer, for closure. Temel Atacocugu, a Turkish man living in New Zealand for the past 13 years, was shot nine times at the Al Noor Mosque. He’s had so […]
Spain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday backed Twitter’s decision to temporarily block the account of the Vox party for hate speech. The social media platform decided to block the far-right party from tweeting for eight days in early 2021 during its electoral run in Catalonia. As part of its “Stop Islamization” campaign, Vox tweeted inaccurate statis...
Poland is welcoming Ukrainians fleeing the war in sharp contrast to its treatment of previous waves of refugees from Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. In 2021, Poland aggressively stopped refugees on the Belarusian border. Now, Polish men and women have been traveling to the border in private cars to offer rides to refugees. Meanwhile, European Un...
British nationals and brothers Saeed and Sakil Dawood were brutally killed in the 2002 Gujarat, India riots. Twenty years later, U.K. parliament member Kim Leadbeater may be questioning the Indian government’s failure in convicting those guilty of their killings. Leadbeater is an MP for Batley and Spen in the northern English county of Yorksh...
A university in Munich, Germany has apologized publicly to two Muslim women students for discriminatory practices during online exams. The incidents sparked widespread criticism on social media, prompting the apology. HM Hochschule Munchen HOT SCHOOL MEWNCHIN said on Twitter “it offered sincere apologies” to the students who were asked by inst...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Imtiyaz Hussain Ahmad has vivid memories of the morning when a mob attacked his village of Naroda Gam, one day after Muslims were blamed for burning a train that killed 59 Hindus. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the deadly riots in Gujarat state on Feb. 28, 2002, in […]
The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association criticized U.S. media reporters’ use of the term “civilized” to describe Ukraine, and its people fleeing violence as those who don’t “look like refugees.” The organization said calling these new refugees and internally displaced persons as “civilized,” is a far cry from the treatment of refug...
A UK secondary school religious studies teacher has sparked outrage among Muslims for using a picture of Osama Bin Laden to depict the Prophet Muhammad. The teacher at the Church of England All Saints Academy in Dunstable, near Luton has been suspended, after 10th graders were shown the image during a PowerPoint presentation on Friday. [&he...
The Council on American Islamic Relations’ or CAIR’s Connecticut chapter is calling for a probe into a possible hate crime, involving two female Muslim students at the University of Connecticut. Junior Shazeda Khatun and senior Zena Saleh said a man screamed racial slurs at them, including the N-word, as they walked to their dorm Monday [&hell...
Speakers at an international conference in Istanbul commended Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia for their efforts combating the scourge of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate crimes. Turkey’s Deputy Justice Minister Yakup Mogul spoke to delegates gathered Wednesday to discuss human rights violations faced by Muslims worldwide. He said Muslim nation...
