Two years after a far-right terror attack in the German town of Hanau, migrant communities are still living in fear and anxiety, eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency. On the night of Feb. 19, 2020, Ozkan Rutbil saw extremist Tobias Rathjen shooting at people he targeted as foreign-looking. The 43-year-old assailant attacked two cafes in Hanau, kil...
Turkey has become an attractive destination for Muslims fleeing France due to Islamophobia. That’s according to a report by French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche on Wednesday. Many young French Muslims are also settling in Gulf countries or applying for Canadian citizenship. French authorities have long been accused of discriminating against...
A special court in Gujarat, India, sentenced 38 Muslims to death today for a series of bombings that shook the city of Ahmedabad in 2008. It was the first time that so many accused have received death sentences in a single case in India. The Indian Mujahideen, an unknown organization, had claimed that the bombings […]
A group of 22 Kuwaiti parliamentarians on Thursday demanded the government ban the entry of any member related to India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kuwait. Mejbel Alshrika, head of the Center for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law shared the official signed request on his Twitter handle. He said, “We can’t sit back and [&he...
U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Israel of putting Palestinian children in cage-like prisons. The New York Democrat was speaking at the Democratic Socialists of America event during a campaign rally for Greg Casar, who is running for Congress in Texas. Ocasio-Cortez compared migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border to ...
A video showing police officers breaking up a fight between two teenagers, one Black, one white, at a New Jersey mall has sparked outrage over police response. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday the appearance of the officers’ “racially disparate treatment” is deeply disturbing. One video of the incident reviewed by CNN shows the [&hel...
After months of deliberation, a panel of five Minnesota judges has finalized the state’s new legislative map. It marks the end of the state’s redistricting process. Now individual counties and cities will use the judges’ map to draw their own lines. The judges’ panel took on the task of submitting a new map after a […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued a threat to unleash his supporters on major U.S. cities. If reelected, Trump said he would consider pardoning the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. These statements underscore the former president and his far-right GOP allies represent “a clear and present danger” to democracy. That is according to an...
Elon Musk has been criticized by the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum for comparing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler. The CEO of Tesla tweeted a meme showing a photo of Hitler with the words “Stop comparing me to Justin Trudeau” and “I had a budget.” The tweet was later deleted. Musk’s use of Hitler’s image […]...
Environmental justice advocates say a methane plume seen last month from space is the latest evidence that fossil fuel emissions must be reined in. Geoanalytics firm Kayrros SAS detected the plume of invisible greenhouse gas, which spanned 56 miles across Louisiana, Bloomberg reported. It’s the largest concentration of the gas seen via satelli...
