BERLIN (AA) – A copy of the Holy Quran was burned and thrown in front of a mosque in southwestern Germany. According to the Turkish Muslim umbrella organization DITIB, the incident occurred on July 8 in front of the Mimar Sinan Mosque. The mosque is located in the town of Maulbronn in Baden-Wuerttemberg province. Osman […]
LONDON – Former CNN reporter Saima Mohsin is taking legal action against the news network, alleging unfair dismissal and racial discrimination. Mohsin, who was incapacitated after an accident while reporting from Jerusalem in 2014, claims that CNN did not support her after the incident. She also alleges that she was denied high-profile b...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – A defendant who killed 23 people at a Walmart store in Texas has been sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms. The murders took place in 2019. The shooting also injured 22 others. Patrick Crusius،, 24, had pleaded guilty in February. It was one of the deadliest attacks on Latinos in […]
PARIS (AA) – The police crackdown on peaceful protests in the French capital, Paris, has sparked an outcry. The demonstration in memory of Adama Traore and solidarity with Nael Merzouk was broken up by the police. Traoré, a black Frenchman, died in custody after being handcuffed and detained by police in 2016. Merzouk, 17, of […]...
Sfax, Tunisia (AFP): Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Tunisia to put an end to what it called the “collective expulsions” of black African migrants to a desert area near the Libyan border. Hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been left stranded in dire conditions in the south of Tunisia since being driven out [&helli...
ISTANBUL (AA): Last week’s fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Muslim of Algerian descent Nahel M. has shed light on the wider issue of systemic racism in French society. According to a researcher, the malaise is deeply rooted in the country’s colonial past and continues to permeate its institutions. Police and other law enforcers have system...
Sfax, Tunisia (AFP): Hundreds of African migrants were stranded in dire conditions in a desert area of southern Tunisia after being expelled from the port city of Sfax, witnesses reported. Racial tensions flared this week into violence as migrants from sub-Saharan African countries were targeted, with dozens fleeing the city or being forcibly ...
LONDON (AA) – The shooting of a 17-year-old by police in a Paris suburb and subsequent protests raised concerns about institutional racism in France, experts say. The teenager, Nahel, was of Algerian and Moroccan descent. Salman Sayyid, a professor at the University of Leeds, said the shooting was a sign of institutional Islamophobia and racis...
LONDON (AA): Last week’s fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old Muslim of North African descent in a Paris suburb should not be seen as an individual, isolated case, says a British social theorist and expert on colonialism. Salman Sayyid, professor of social theory and decolonial thought at the University of Leeds, says it lays bare […]...
MOSCOW (AA): Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has accused France of being one of the countries which continue their neocolonial policies. Speaking at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Baku, Aliyev urged French President Emmanuel Macron to apologize to the countries affected by French colonialism. “Apologies to the millions of people w...
